(Video) Blogger, please… don’t say BJ on the news

Kind of scary looking blogger Marcy Wheeler raised a few eyebrows by using a common euphemism for oral sex on a MSNBC segment. Marcy's expressing frustration at lack of investigation into the recent news that Dick Cheney supressed ... Read >

The inevitable? New York Times floats $5 per month access

Newspapers as they move away from the print world and try to embrace the online distribution of news are being faced with how they are going to make money. Advertising might work for blogs ... Read >

Sheepish NY Times admits manipulation in “Ruins of the Second Gilded Age”

It was jarring, stunning, moving and very sad. And it was also shopped. The New York Times Magazine piece "The Ruins of the Second Gilded Age" was an essay composed of atmospheric shots, each depicting the stagnation of ... Read >

Newspapers really need to learn to share

Generally when blogs talk condescendingly about the newspapers moving online we like to point out how they never link out to blogs that they mention or one’s that they quote. To a point I ... Read >

Yet another company shows how ads can work

Yesterday I wrote both here and on my home blog about two different types of advertising campaigns that both use video to engage us as a way to promote their products. With both posts ... Read >

Australian News Corp chief attacks Google, bloggers

John Hartigan, the Chief Executive of News Ltd, the Australian arm of News Corp has joined in with his colleagues in the United States today in bashing Google and bloggers. In a wide ranging lecture about how News ... Read >

WSJ publisher practicing ‘digital stupidity’

There’s nothing like a good dose of rhetoric to galvanize the troops to fight the enemy. It doesn’t matter if there is any truth in the rhetoric. As long as you can do everything ... Read >

Some people just don’t have a clue, this includes the Newspaper Licensing Agency

Just as we think that people are beginning to understand how things work on the web along comes idiots like this. It was ridiculous when an organization like the Associated Press (AP) said that ... Read >

Sanford affair emails published, local newspaper sat on them since December

Emails between disgraced South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford and his Argentinean mistress obtained by The State Newspaper have been published online today, despite the newspaper having obtained the emails in December 2008. The emails, dated July 2008 clearly ... Read >

The Netherlands considering internet tax to prop up newspapers

The Dutch Government is considering a proposal to tax internet access to prop up the local newspaper industry. The report, compiled by a Dutch Parliamentary committee, proposes a 6% tax on ISP fees which would go directly to ... Read >

Is Barack Obama a nerd by John Hodgman

Actor and writer John Hodgman (known from The Daily Show and Apple ads) was the headline speaker at the Radio and Television Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington, D.C last Friday. The theme of his speech was "nerds" and ... Read >

Citizen journalism agency Demotix brings Iran footage to the world’s media

UK based citizen journalism agency Demotix has signed deals with some of the world's biggest media outlets to supply images from the protests in Iran. Demotix acts as a middleman between citizen journalists and the media, collating and ... Read >