Journalism

Dear Business Week

In Fray, Geek, Internet, Journalism on 18 March 2006 with Comments Off

Thanks for featuring Fray, my humble site, in the lead of your recent story, You Are What You Post. We always appreciate journalists taking the time to use a 5 year-old personal story contributed to our “obscure” literary site as a to peg to hang a fear-mongering, hysterical story on.
But it would have been nice [...]

Bloggers Don’t Let Your Children Grow Up to Be Journalists

In Blogging, Internet, Journalism, Weblogs on 5 April 2005 with Comments Off

Here’s a fun thing to try: Ask your typical blogger what they think of journalists. “Hacks!” They’ll scream. “Journalism sucks!”
Then tell them about bloggers being treated differently than journalists. “Unfair!” They scream. “We’re journalists, too!”
Try to follow the logic here: Journalism is lame and broken, so bloggers want to be journalists.
With me so far? No? [...]

Enemy Mine

In Geek, Google, Journalism on 24 November 2003 with Comments Off

Just for the record, I do not hate Google, nor am I its enemy. Quite the opposite: I’m a fan. I love Google. They’ve done so much for the web. I use their search and news services daily. And, in most cases, the choices they make are sound.
I criticize them when they make choices I [...]