The end of publishing? Not exactly…
Think it’s all over for publishing? Not if you look at it in the right perspective. Here’s a great video that helps.
Taking journalism lessons from revolutionaries
I just finished watching a fantastic video, produced for the 2009 Craft Brewers Conference. Take a minute and check it out: I Am A Craft Brewer on Vimeo. For the record, I live in Oregon (Beervana) and I love craft beer. But I’m also a journalism fanatic and I just couldn’t help but think about [...]
Excellent flood coverage at CR Gazette
Shame on me for reading it first somewhere else, but my eyes were glued to Web coverage of Iowa flooding by the Cedar Rapids Gazette. My friend Jason Kristufek heads up the paper’s Web efforts, and he’s been doing them proud. From a map-enabled display of stories as they were breaking (sorry, no link) early [...]
Excuses, excuses
Aaron Swartz piles on the praise for a This American Life show focused on the U.S. housing market meltdown. Swartz starts off by drawing lessons to fix the news: declining circulation, talk show shouters, aging readers. Here are three points he suggests we can learn from the episode: It believed in the intelligence of its [...]
Lessons from Leatherman
I had a chance to hear Tim Leatherman, inventor of the multi-tool today (yes there is a guy named Leatherman). He was featured at Speakerlunch a monthly pep-talk for entrepreneurs put on by a local guy in Corvallis. I came away with a couple of entrepreneurial lessons to consider that I wanted to share: Leatherman [...]