…random notes on technology, media, and society
March 12, 2008
Blogging doesn’t come naturally to most newspapers and news organizations. It’s time consuming, it requires a good understanding of the blogging environment and its dynamics, it also requires a dedicated staff, and often a mind change among reporters and their editors. Not surprisingly, there are very few newspapers that have managed to properly integrate blogging [...]
April 15, 2007
Make sure to check out this Global Reporting feature from the leading German business daily Handelsblatt. I don’t know when they launched, but I noticed it only recently (the footer bears the date 2005–so it may have been launched even back then!) It’s not perfect, but definitely a small step towards enhancing their [...]
It is disturbing to read another piece of self-denial coming from mainstream media. This time from The Guardian, which, were one to judge from its Comment is Free section, is one newspaper that does understand the true use of blogging and social commentary… The oped that Victor Keegan carried in the newspaper just a few [...]
