It’s South by Southwest Interactive this weekend, since everybody’s attention span is shortened by imbibing in too much, um, Internet knowledge, I will keep things short this week. ******** First,…
A Newspaper Goes Dark, with Dignity (?): The Rocky Mountain News produced its last edition Friday, after the sudden announcement that it would do so after the Scripps company was…
Press Releases From a Journalist’s POV Daryl James, a former newspaper professional, lays out some very simple tips on what should go into a news release to get an editor’s…
The Pan-Mass Challenge is still more than five months away, but I have had an eventful couple of weeks in preparation. Fundraising is Off to a Great Start: Thanks to…
Twestival: I had been hearing quite a bit about Charity:Water over the last few months, from a semi-mysterious mailed invitation to a New York fundraiser party in December (I got…
What Really Needs to Change? How about journalists making themselves the story (and for the purposes of this column, Michael Arrington of TechCrunch is a journalist)? Dating back to my…
Has Obama broken a social media promise? – I have been very skeptical of the idea that President Obama’s will be a “social media” administration. Federal government seems to me…
The New York Times‘ David Pogue posts Twitter Tips for Beginners: A great common-sense starter guide for the bewildered Twitter newcomer. What’s hilarious is that Poguue was berated by some…
I promised with heart crossed, swore up and down, and insisted to the edge of embarrassment that I would not do one of those “year end” posts, where I either…
Goodbye Pownce, We Hardly Knew Ye – Remember when people were begging and scrambling for beta invitations to Pownce? As a hardcore Twitter user, I did appreciate the differences that…
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