Archive for November, 2007

The new news

Interesting article from Jason Goldberg at SocialMedian.com today regarding the “new news.”
What is known is that the business of delivering the news has to change.  It’s no longer economical to produce print in the age of digital.  How can a printing company saddled with manufacturing and real-world product delivery compete with the economies of virtualization? 
I somewhat [...]

Citizen Journalists Supporting “Real” Journalists?

Interesting story today in the Washington Post (”Storming the News Gatekeepers“) where the debate over whether citizen journalists are really journalists or not.
“The term ‘citizen journalist’ has an Orwellian ring to it,” says Andrew Keen, author of “The Cult of the Amateur,” who’s criticized the Web 2.0-Wikipedia world, where everyone can become their own editors.
“People [...]

Next Big Writer Brown Bag Lunch Guest

Join me at theNextBigWriter.com’s Brown Bag Lunch where I’m hosting a question and answer forum on the topics of self publishing and internet marketing. They do charge a fee to join, but for all you writers, they have a lot of online support and contests to help you in your writing journey. I spent two [...]

Why Don’t Newspapers Get “Green”?

With all the talk about global warming, $90 per barrell oil, recycling, and going digital, why don’t newspapers get beat up for pumping out millions of tons of newsprint each day? Our family started getting serious about recycling this year, converting almost half of our “trash” into “recyclable waste” almost overnight. We have one bin [...]

One Day in America Stats

I was reading an interesting article today in Time Magazine entitled “One Day in America.” A few interesting stats are quoted in the article:
At some point today you will say a prayer, not floss, take a shower for 10 minutes but not sing in it, drive an eight-year-old car to work, spend 95% of the [...]