Former SNL writer, activist, and comedian, Joe Bodolai leaves a stirring suicide note on his blog.
communications
Can a responsible adult please take over RIM
Company says it is taking a $485 million charge because they are selling the Blackberry Playbook at around $200. The good news is that they are actually selling. The bad news is that they are sold about about a $150-$200 loss per unit. A $485 million writedown for the discounting, along with costs related to [...]
So much for journalism
For most of us you are either for or against CBC but it doesn’t matter what you think of the CBC, you can’t pretend to think this qualifies as journalism by the London Free Press. CBC bureaucrats, production people, and journalists are feeling a little cramped in their 23-storey broadcast palace in Montreal. Earlier this [...]
Sermon feedback
I don’t do a lot of public speaking anymore but when I did, I would have appreciated the kind of feedback that AKMA is proposing here. Still, one wonders what would happen if sermons were regularly reviewed by a good critic (or by an itinerant representative of the diocese/synod/whatever), or if it were permissible to [...]
The News Corp. Coverup
This is from the Columbia Journalism Review. It’s structured in a way that you want to read and watch all of it. My question is how did everyone not see this coming? You have a news organization that has made it’s name being intellectually dishonest and selling sensational stories and now they seem shocked that [...]
Back to basics
Wendy decided to move her site from WordPress.com back to Blogger this weekend. The move went okay but Blogger is having problems importing new blogs right now. You can find her at iamwendycooper.blogspot.com from now on. Her RSS feed remains the same and of course you can find her on Twitter at @wendycooper.
The world’s first newspaper website?
Back at the turn of the century, the Boston Globe would hang large handwritten signs out front with headlines which looked like the world’s first newspaper website/blog. They eventually added a sports website, with streaming audio. RSS hadn’t caught on yet so the readers had to actually visit the site. This photo was taken during [...]
Why not link?
Doc Searls asks why major news outlets don’t link to original sources? The reasons I’ve usually heard for not linking, or for only linking to internal pages, is that the journal’s site “needs” to be “sticky,” to “drive traffic” past ads, and to maximize the time spent by readers on the site. (Nobody defends the [...]
