Those of you (er, both of you) who have been following this blog since its outset (onset?) in February 2005 will recall that I first got involved with the actual production of online news at the Spartan Daily, the student newspaper of San Jose State University, where I remain a graduate student, believe it or [...]
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Migration and alternate reads
April 5, 2008
I’ve been a little busy for the last week or so moving across the country, although going weeks between posts isn’t really anything new here, eh? As always, I’m posting to Twitter far more often than I could hope to blog here.
While I’m slammed with life and work busy-ness, please check out the following [...]
Newspapers: Make money online, minus the news
September 28, 2006
Who knows more about Santa Cruz, California than the Santa Cruz Sentinel?
Well, that’s debatable, but let’s put it another way: Who’s bothered to put together a modern, readable Santa Cruz site for tourists?
That’s right, the Santa Cruz Sentinel.
DestinationSantaCruz.com is live, and it looks like a damn good idea.
Build a site that has nothing to [...]
My left armpit business model
September 24, 2006
[Ed. note: This post takes care of my smart-ass quota for the month.]
In the middle of an uninteresting handwringer where nothing new is written about the future/death/rebirth/downfall of newspapers (pointing out the existence of craigslist is so 2005), Michael Kinsley writes at Time.com:
“But there is room between the New York Times and myleftarmpit.com for new [...]
How to juggle multimedia and Digg interactivity
In two back-channel online news discussions this week, folks have been debating how newspapers should be gathering video and how they should handle comment moderation.
The video discussion among Howard Owens, Mindy McAdams, and others, is notable because the question is no longer IF newspapers should be running video online (Yes) or HOW they should be [...]
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