Category Archives: Media MusingsThis Tuesday I’m flying to Burlington, VT for my annual brain food festival — the conference of the Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ). I’ve been working with this group since 1990, and I have a lot of friends there, so this event is always a blast.
This year, I set up an unofficial SEJ2006 group weblog. [...]
PayPerPost: Worth the risk?
Over at the Center for Citizen Media blog, I’ve joined an interesting conversation concerning the thorny issue of payola in online media. See: PayPerPost: A Cancer on the Blogosphere, or Merely Semi-Sleazy? by Dan Gillmor.
Background: The controversial online advertising service PayPerPost attracted considerable blog and media attention after it recently got $3 [...]
Did today’s lead online head from washintongpost.com jump the gun?
Today, in the numerous U.S. news stories speculating about North Korea’s as-yet-unconfirmed nuclear test, I’ve noticed a glaring omission: The acronym CTBTO (sometimes CTBO).
That stands for the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization — the body that runs the International Monitoring System (IMS), which is how scientists [...]
Last night, my husband and I went out to the movies — something we rarely do, since we think movie tickets are drastically overpriced and prefer the convenience and selection of Netflix. However, every once in a while we still get the urge.
Since we were in the mood to mock, we went to see the [...]
Yesterday, my editor at Poynter Online, Bill Mitchell, asked me for ideas for covering how Katie Couric’s debut last night as the new CBS Evening News anchor is playing online.
Well, I honestly didn’t watch her show last night. I was really tired and went to bed early. I almost never watch TV news anyway. However, [...]
My friend and colleague Dave Taylor runs several hugely popular weblogs on tech, business, and parenting topics. This morning he had a post that I think many in the news business can relate to: Why Bloggers Must Be Historical Revisionists.
Dave’s posting echoes some themes of a good cross-blog conversation he and I had going earlier [...]
As I mentioned earlier, this weekend I’m speaking at the annual conference of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ).
On Saturday, Jeff South (Va. Commonwealth Univ.) and I will be hosting a session from 3:30-4:30 pm on this theme: “Technology: A User’s Guide to Software, Hardware and Other Tools Revolutionizing Journalism.” (Incidentally, just before that, [...]
Today I’m catching a plane to San Jose for the second annual BlogHer conference, which starts tomorrow.
Tonight (Thursday, July 27) I’ve been invited to speak on a panel at a monthly gathering of Bay Area PR luminaries, held this month in Palo Alto. The topic is podcasting.
My fellow panelists are:
The panel is at Fanny & Alexander in Palo Alto. It starts at 6:30 tonight, and probably goes until 9 or so. I don’t believe there’s a fee to attend this event, but you might want to RSVP via Meetup.com.
So to warm up my brain for this, here are a few thoughts on podcasting as conversational media…
Read the rest of this article at my other weblog, The Right Conversation…
A reporter from the Washington Post just interviewed me for my perspective on Netscape’s recent offer to pay talented people for their “social bookmarking rights.”
I wondered: “Netscape? Are they still around?” I assumed they were resting on the scrap heap of the the 20th century. So I told the reporter, “Give me an hour to look into this so I can give you an informed opinion.”
Here’s what I’ve learned, and what I think…
As I mentioned yesterday, on July 9 the San Diego Union-Tribune published an article by Bruce Bigelow called “Dr. Beyster’s book (Or: How SAIC’s founder stopped worrying about publicity and learned to love the blog).”
No kidding, that’s the actual title. Being a die-hard Dr. Strangelove fan, I adore it. And I don’t just like the article because I’m quoted in it. (But thanks, Bruce!)
Anyway, this is an example of someone who, like me, is blogging a book…
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