The morning routine
Island Mike offers insight and a link to a good piece from the Boston Globe about changing media habits. Among many points that resonated with me was the morning habit: I love newspapers and subscribe to three of them at home. I cannot begin my day without a newspaper. In the temporary paperless mornings that [...]
Weekend reading
Due to factors I will bore you with here, I’ve let my S.F. Chronicle subscription lapse. I’d heard a juicy rumor that the afternoon Marin Independent Journal had gone morning. I’d had an email exchange with the IJ’s fine editor about that very topic some months ago. I said I’d dump the Comical in a [...]
Unreal
The feeling in the American newspaper industry must be that of all of us watching video of Hurricane Katrina or the Indonesian tsunami: unreal; a feeling that this can’t be happening. But it is. Hamilton Nolan at PR Week (no, I don’t subscribe yet! But it is a part of the Media Bistro feed I [...]
Defining journalism
There’s a brilliant behind the scenes banter going on below. (I call it out because sometimes I miss that in other blogs because I’m lazy). Fantastic input from Mike, Island Mike, and Loring.It’s all about the nature of journalism and what defines journalism and so on, at least in the business-to-business space. I’ll be frank: [...]
The rhythms of the long commute
I was going to write a reasonably serious post this evening about the blogosphere and its role in the media-relations business and blah blah blah. I still will attack that with seriousness, maybe even this week. But I shifted gears because in blogland you need to listen to your rhythms.As I’ve changed jobs, I’ve rededicated [...]
Business 2.0 bites the dust
Business 2.0, long-rumored to be closing, is, according to the New York Times today. Editor Josh Quittner is understandably bummed. But let’s be honest: Business 2.0 was never a vital read. It had great lists of start-ups, things you should do and not do, what to be scared shitless about, what to admire, but that’s [...]
Evolution
Ed Sperling, editor in chief of Electronic News and Electronic Business, was this week’s guest on Sam Whitmore’s conference call to the PR industry. Ed said technical newsweeklies are dead as print publications. That’s the lede.“The economics are not there to sustain a newsweekly in print. It’s a very tough market. There just isn’t the [...]
Happy Labor Day
That’s all. Nothing special. My brother and I did our part by finishing the garage door this weekend. But we didn’t go to any Labor Day Sale Bonanzas so that may make us un-American.Back at it manana.
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