I was listening to This Week in Tech with Leo Laporte this morning and the gang got onto a topic that I’ve been thinking alot about lately: as bloggers, what should we do when we need to edit live posts? The topic was prompted by Xeni Jardin’s purging of every single reference (among the hundreds) to Violet Blue on BoingBoing.com with no notice. That matter’s been covered to death but you can catch up with the story here in the…
Big moves today over at Tribune Publishing – the owners of the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times. The moves apparently started last month when Publisher Scott C. Smith retired, and was replaced on an interim basis by Bob Gremillion, publishing group executive vice president. Ann Marie Lipinski, the newspaper’s senior vice president and editor is leaving and will be replaced by Gerould W. Kern who’s been their VP Editorial for the last 5 years. Later in the day,…
I started working with Mysql Workbench 5.0.23 today, which they list as the successor to the sometimes buggy, sometimes brilliant FabForce DB4 mysql modeling tool. I”m not the guy to give you a feature by feature breakdown on the product, but I can tell you this: When you create a new product version you should never take what were free features in the predecessor and make them extras you only get in the “standard edition.” In this case, the import…
Blitzrieg Bop, the seminal Ramones classic, recorded live in Hamburg.
Boston…When the Going Gets Weird I’ll try not to spoil it for you. Basically, there’s a lot of talk how the stripers aren’t turning up inshore. Tons of bait, and it’s going unmolested about it’s business. The theories are many, but I question whether it’s a fundamental shift due to the declines in the cod that have allowed the stripers to take up residence as alpha dogs on Stellwagen. At least until the bluefin really assert themselves. Cape Cod…The Haves…
Jeremiah Owyang from Forrester has a great post up entitled ” Why Some Don’t Need to Join the Conversation“. The basic premise is that even though social media has been so very hot in the past year or two, actual participation by users remains at a relatively low percentage of overall visitors. To prove my point, let’s start with data: In most markets, (even youth) there are no bars that span 100% for creators. In fact, 18-24 year olds in…
Jessica DaSilva posted last week right after the Tampa Tribune Editor in Chief Janet Coats announced a major round of layoffs, and their embarkation for a trip in an entirely new direction: Then she dropped the reality bomb: “People need to stop looking at TBO.com as an add on to The Tampa Tribune,” she said. “The truth is that The Tampa Tribune is an add on to TBO.” (Bold added for effect) The questions from much of the newsroom apparently…
I’ve said it before, but this post especially requires that I state it clearly again: I am a New England Yankee. That means that I possibly have a heightened sense of propriety and generally would consider a lot of things marketing-wise as crossing the line that some of you might not have a problem with. I’m noticing lately that a lot of marketing types are spending a lot of time on micro-blogging tools such as Twitter, FriendFeed (the new darling),…
It’s getting to the point of irrelevance…but yet another good piece with yet another reason print media is doomed…this time from Steve Rubel at Micropersuation (and Edelman Digital). Consider this a rather simplistic theory for a Saturday morning. However, it’s my view that – as if they didn’t have enough to worry about – newspaper and magazine publishers may see a perfect storm accelerate if gas prices continue to escalate. There are three factors at work here – some go…
Cape Cod Fishwire for July 3, 2008 Boston Fishwire for July 3, 2008 I’d sworn last September I was done writing the Reel-Time Fishwires (weekly fishing reports). When NameMedia bought Reel-Time.com I realized that just wasn’t in the cards. So I’m now finding the fun in the reports again. A couple things I noted as I posted this week: The Fishwire management system is antiquated. It was a nice try in 2001 when it was built, and frankly I hated…