My local newspaper (or, more correctly, the website associated with the local newspaper) recently put out a call for reader input. How, the bloggers asked, can we make the newspaper better? How can we bring you back? How are we doing? You can see the suggestions here (hint: though the article was posted a month …
Category Archive: News and news media
The state of the industry, not new about me.
Aug
07
Found money and hypocrisy.
Back in May, we had a miracle in Syracuse. In a fairly distitute section of town, business owners and passersby found money in the street. Lots of it. Police say about $328,000 stuffed into 14 plastic bags littered Wolf and North Salina streets. Folks who worked in the shops, store patrons and others found the …
Aug
03
R.I.P., press releases? Not quite.
Yesterday, Jeff Jarvis used Twitter to declare the death of the press release. To quote Mr. Jarvis: “How can I tell flacks that I don’t open ANY of their press releases. The press release is dead, folks.” In subsequent posts, Jarvis says “I love PR people asking what replaces the press release as if it …
Jul
31
This is why we can't have nice things…
The Internet is going haywire over the case of Gary McKinnon, the autistic hacker the U.S. is trying to extradite from the U.K. to stand trial for snooping around in NASA and Department of Defense computers seven years ago. The U.K. is especially in an uproar, with McKinnon supporters screaming that an autistic man shouldn’t …
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