James Mitchell

"Journalism schools are like foot-binding. They force you into a style that a bunch of dinosaurs all agreed was acceptable a zillion years ago. So in an age of blogging, you have no voice. In fact, if I were in J-school now, I’d have my knuckles rapped for using the rhetorical “you” in those last two sentences."

"Anyway, 12 years later Wired UK is back, from Condé Nast. And the world has moved on. Technology moves from cutting edge to mainstream in the bat of an eyelid – which is difficult when you have to deal with monthly magazine deadlines. My dad is now using Spotify. I don't think it had actually launched when this first edition of Wired was put to bed."

"The papers can't get coordinated on anything. Anyone remember Pathfinder, that was supposed to be the Time-backed portal for news. Yeah, that did well. What, a decade of the web, and none of the papers could put together their own version of Hulu? The only thing you can all agree on is that you hate Google News for "stealing" so much from you — despite Yahoo News still being the larger news site. But Google makes a better target, plus I suspect some papers might have favorable placements with Yahoo that makes them not want to yell about the Big Y."

"After Del.icio.us founder Joshua Schachter's article about URL shorteners was posted on AllThingsD, he asked on Twitter, "What the hell is this?" Danny Sullivan replied, "It's a compliment. AllThingsD liked your shortener article enough to feature you on their home page." Joshua responded, "It's just very unclear to me where that came from, who wrote it, why they are showing ads on it, etc."