All the lame that’s fit to intimidate
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009That headline makes no sense, but neither does The New York Times' decision to make a food blog remove the slogan "All the news that's fit to eat."
Archive for the ‘business of news’ Category
That headline makes no sense, but neither does The New York Times' decision to make a food blog remove the slogan "All the news that's fit to eat."
Can Wisconsin bloggers write about High School sports?
Thursday, March 5th, 2009The Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association seems to think it can block the state's newspapers from covering post-season play unless the newspapers pay the athletic association. The most interesting bit is this: "The WIAA is asking a Portage County judge to rule that the organization has the right to "control the transmission, ...
Gov’t funded research should be open to bloggers
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009... or anyone else in the public who already paid for it. John Conyers wants the public -- and libraries -- to have to pay again. Why vote Republican when Democrats will give away stupid corporate welfare too?
Applaud the Commercial Appeal, time to open all gun records
Monday, February 16th, 2009Last week, the daily newspaper in Memphis revealed a searchable database of the state's concealed carry permit holders. Predictably, my fellow gun nuts went, well, nutzer, organized the troops and began the barrage of nasty emails and phone calls to the newspaper. It is easy to understand why 2nd Amendment supporters ...
Yeowwwwch — OK Blogger apologizes under lawsuit threat
Thursday, February 12th, 2009Wish I knew the backstory.
Do any of you tweet?
Monday, February 2nd, 2009BNN is: You can follow any state at www.twitter.com/STATENAMEbnn (For those of you inside the beltway, replace STATENAME with the name of the state you want to follow. Really, Mitch, I weep for your future.) or You can follow BNN news and my random thoughts here. (We'll follow you back since ...
BNN sends bloggers influential readers
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009One of the services we use to track who is reading us and how they land on BlogNetNews gives us a neat overview of what organization is supplying the Internet access used to get to us. One way they let us look at it, is which large companies and government ...
Can blogs jump the digital print divide?
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009... and more importantly, is it a real business? Here's an attempt at making money. Here's what Wired had to say. My friend John Wilpers was involved in an earlier pioneering effort in Boston.
Got a local news idea?
Friday, January 9th, 2009... and the technology chops to do it ... but a little short in the business plan department? Maybe you should look into this.
A misinformed boob defends newspapers from blogs
Monday, January 5th, 2009This Paul Mulshine guy is a real goofball. (Hat tip: Katie Granju) Mulshine is profoundly ignorant. He doesn't even understand the institution he purports to defend. Some time he should pick up a newspaper. At the back of the main section or the local section, he will find something called an editorial ...
