While I use Google News fairly regularly–particularly its e-mailed news alerts), I never noticed the new “comments from people in the news” function that it apparently launched last spring. It’s a fascinating idea that the NY Times recently took a look at (thanks, Slashdot for bringing it to my attention).
Let’s set aside for a moment […]
My former colleague Yoni Greenbaum has entered the journalism blogging arena, and he recently added his philosophy about the obligation of newspapers to make their corrections as easy to find online as they are in the print edition.
As a longtime fan of Regret the Error, I couldn’t agree more. Look, nobody wants to make a […]
As the newspaper industry struggles to ensure its relevance in the changing media landscape, there are a few pioneers out there who have the right idea. One of them, Adrian Holovaty, created the innovative ChicagoCrime.org by databasing freely-available crime reports from the Web and mashing them up with Google Maps (more to come on […]
In our rush to embrace the Web, it’s interesting to keep in mind some of the limitations the medium could impose on journalists.
CNet News.com posted a story looking at how some of history’s best headlines might not hack it in the digital age. Here’s what they write about one of my favorites…
“Ford to city: Drop […]
