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Monthly Archives: January 2009

retro

Friday, January 30, 2009

So this particular video has gone completely viral amongst the newspapers-are-hilariously-dead crowd: To-dos for you: Advance to 0:28. Compare to this picture, which I took earlier today: Advance to 0:31. Note that the framed pictures in the background are, at this very moment, hanging on my boss’ wall. You may now enjoy the rest of [...]

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goulash!

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Once in a while I get the urge for a old-skool stew. Today, with a high of 9 degrees, goulash seemed perfect. I started with a recipe from Ms Stewart. A not terrible rule of thumb for this particular source is to double anything that looks vaguely like a spice or a vegetable. I doubled [...]

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reasons III

Thursday, January 1, 2009

3. The culture of newsroom leadership contains a fatal 20th century flaw: A fundamental belief that equates all new trends with dangerous “fads.” Newsrooms don’t trail the leading edge simply because they’re too dumb to keep up: They’re behind because their editorial leadership believes that keeping pace with rapid change is a fool’s errand. Many [...]

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model

Thursday, January 1, 2009

I’ve been trying to put together some thoughts on a new model for news businesses. I’ve run in to a couple problems: lack of data jargon The publication I work for is privately owned, so financial information is hard to come by. I’ve looked around for what other “knowledgeable” people might think, and it turns [...]

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