Reboot with Crampons & Ice Axe
Why and where I’ve been offline during the past week.
Why and where I’ve been offline during the past week.
A known flaw in Windows 2000, plus a smashed backup PC, leaves me largely offline. I’m meanwhile trying to run the business from a wireless PDA.
Gibran Tueni, 48, publisher of al-Nahar daily newspaper, member of the Lebanese parliament, and the World Association of Newspaper’s board member for Middle East Affairs, was assassinated this morning in Beirut. An outspoken editorialist against Syrian involvement in his country, he had…
People e-mailed the BBC with more than 6,500 photos or mobile phone video clips of the inferno at the Buncefield oil depot explosion yesterday. According to MediaGuardian, this set a new record for emails sent to the BBC in the aftermath of…
Tawdry publications can now afford flying cameras of their own.
Pulitzer Prizes become open to online content.
Traveling too much during October and November, I am remiss in not yet congratulating, or even noting, the election on October 18th of David Carlson (pictured), the Cox/Palm Beach Post professor of new media journalism at the University of Florida, to president…
Digital Journalist online magazine has at least three good items this month: Photographs and stories from the new book Unembedded. There has been much reporting on the war in Iraq by Western photographers who work ’embedded’ behind U.S. troops. However, photographers…
An editorial entitled Meltdown to the Core in the current issue of Editor & Publisher magazines, the trade journal of the newspaper industry, laments how that declining industry’s cost-cutting guts attempts to serve growing niches of readership and is focuses instead on…
Why ‘Verified’ Circulation Is Now Separate From ‘Paid’ Circulation.
Readers’ responses to WSJ.com column indicate that the best downloadable music price is under a dollar.
Faith in technology requires patience