Archive for February, 2009

Sports will go on, just without the Rocky [Lincicome]

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

The world today can be held in the palm of the hand, with all the news and sounds and motion a tap away.  These are familiar agonies that grip the newspaper industry across the land and may yet do in the survivor here, victory not a conclusion as much as an amnesty.

via LINCICOME: Sports will go on, just without the Rocky : Columns & Blogs : The Rocky Mountain News.

The silly season [yelvington.com]

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

An ounce of empiricism beats a pound of bloviation.

via The silly season | yelvington.com.

New master’s track for experienced professionals (Medill)

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

(Press release, Feb. 24, 2009)

Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and Media Management Center (MMC) will offer a unique master’s degree track starting this fall tailored to media professionals who want to retool and broaden their skills to meet the challenges of the digital age. (more…)

Do We Need a New Internet? [NYT]

Saturday, February 14th, 2009

There is a growing belief among engineers and security experts that Internet security and privacy have become so maddeningly elusive that the only way to fix the problem is to start over.

via Do We Need a New Internet? – NYTimes.com.

Twitter: What is it good for? [Scientific American]

Friday, February 13th, 2009

Many Twitter users embrace the technology as a way of feeling “ambient intimacy.”

via Twitter: What is it good for?: Scientific American Blog.

Newspapers at the Crossroads [David Warsh]

Sunday, February 1st, 2009

[New York] Times Co. management needs to get ahold of itself.  Maybe it already has.  The rough handling of the last few years perhaps has been enough to concentrate its attention on the task at hand.

via Economic Principals » Blog Archive » Newspapers at the Crossroads.