I asked my Twitter followers what they think of substituting the word “community” for “readers” and I’m getting lots of good responses, many of them negative.
Either I didn’t know “community” had much of a stigma, or I spent too long working with “community” newspapers to notice. Back then, it seemed like a great linguistic [...]
All about news-organization
Are your readers a community?
July 8, 2009
What’s the most important reason news organizations should link out to the wider Web?
June 3, 2009
Hey RSS readers, click on through to answer the question if you don’t mind. Trying to gather some ideas for a post I’m working on. Thank you!
Innovation is easy: Hand the camera to the stuntman
March 16, 2009
So the wife and I were watching Bourne Ultimatum this weekend on DVD.
(Yes, yes, I know, a few of you still know me as the former film student who was inspired to make movies because I knew I could do better than Lethal Weapon 2, but I still like a good action flick, OK?)
Anyway, good [...]
Cross-pollinate or shrivel
September 19, 2008
I’m profoundly enthralled by things like rapid news-driven development in Django, and building a CMS that can switch from a beautiful feature layout to a Drudge-like breaking news linkbomb on a dime, and of course, leveraging the steady stream of free embeddable tools showing up online every day for your own newsy purposes.
But none of [...]
Dealing with the elephant: Build the software you need, then sell it.
August 21, 2008
This is the fourth post in a short series I’m pretty much done with about the business model for online news before I go back to my usual routine of pointing out the obvious to people wearing dark glasses. The starting point, the givens in the equation, are listed here. Suggest which windmill I should [...]