Quote of the day goes to David Coen: “I wish I could just “command-F” for C.T.C (Cinnamon Toast Crunch).”
Amen! My pinky finger twitches for the “/” key (old-school Firefox shortcut) all the time: when I’m scanning ingredients, reading a news story, and finding my location on a map.
After a taste of what the web [...]
Are we sinking or sunk? Alfred Hermida writes that, at least in Canada, new research shows that nobody buys the paper for local news:
The main reason for choosing newspapers was out of habit. People were either daily readers or subscribers.
But only 8% said they choose newspapers because they were a source of local news. And [...]
Joel Spolsky from Inc. Magazine (via SVN):
Watching nonprogrammers trying to run software companies is like watching someone who doesn’t know how to surf trying to surf. Even if he has great advisers standing on the shore telling him what to do, he still falls off the board again and again. The cult of the M.B.A. [...]
Marketing guru Seth Godin wrote two great bits last week on how the news is screwed up.
First: The New York Times should only publish something if it’s true and important.
If I were editing the Times, I’d look at every single editorial feature, every single article and ask if it met either of the two things [...]
So, I’m not quite finished with Clay Shirky’s new book, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations, but it’s too good to hold off posting. His take on the state of the newspaper is especially great:
We’ve long regarded the newspaper as a sensible object because it has been such a stable one, [...]
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