Is There a Future for Newspapers? "There is a future for print media. But the future is doubtful for large newspaper companies that are saddled with heavy costs and debt. If newspapers had focused on their business as "news" rather than "papers," they would most likely have invested heavily in digital ventures beginning in the [...]
A reporter, a journalist and a correspondent walk into a bar "Anyone can be a reporter, a journalist has a craft. A reporter has a job, a journalist has a future, that is never clearer than during the great, slow burst of the century-old newspaper bubble." (tags: journalism future newspapers)
Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004 "Writing a weblog today isn't the bright idea it was four years ago. The blogosphere, once a freshwater oasis of folksy self-expression and clever thought, has been flooded by a tsunami of paid bilge. Cut-rate journalists and underground marketing campaigns now drown out the authentic voices of [...]
Liberating the ‘F word’, the ‘C word’ and the ‘S word’ "After I recently posted a link to one of my blogs on a local website, the website’s administrator complained to me that the use of swearing in my blog was “tasteless” and added something along the lines of “We don’t want this destroying the [...]
Happy birthday, dear bloggers; you've rewritten the rules "Every writer since the printing press has longed for a means to publish himself and reach – instantly – any reader on Earth. Every professional writer has paid some dues waiting for an editor's nod, enduring a publisher's incompetence, or being ground to dust by a legion [...]
