Wasn’t that some fun we had yesterday? Got a bit of notice from the Romenesko link … visitor count quadrupled but the numbers are still a dribble: 160 visits Wednesday, 640 on Thursday. My gut feeling is people are sick…
Category: Blogging
Tampa Trib bloggers saying bye-bye
All three Tampa Trib bloggers are closing up shop: Daily Dave, Clay and Side Salad. 11 a.m. PST UPDATE: Click on comments for updates that clear up most of this and go two-thirds of the way toward exculpating Trib bosses.…
Stuck at work…
… which means I’ll have to do some actual newspapering for the next eight hours or so (Thanks, CCI, you bring so much meaning to my life). After that I’ll probably need major couch time, so this could be the…
What we can learn from the Peoria Pundit
Here’s a guy who is the only blogger covering the media in my hometown, a metro area of some 300,000 (Bill will know precisely, he’s good about that stuff). His current blog archives date to January 2002, so plenty of…
More on the Bee blogs
The Sacramento Bee’s ombudsman, who got everybody worked up last week, explains himself this week. Speaking of the Bee’s online adventures, they’re looking for an assistant content manager.
Les Gapay update
The L.A. Times has his cellphone number, as does NPR. I, however, do not. A couple minutes ago I fielded the second inquiry from a radio producer trying to get Gapay on the air. I’m flattered by the attention, folks,…
For your education and amusement
A page on wheat being separated from chaff. As long as I’m on the subject, here’s an article on farming in ancient Egypt.
Shade-tree journalism
Well, I have to weigh in on the who-edits-the-blogs affair; after all the world wants to know what the editor’s blog blogmeister thinks, right? I’ll draw an analogy: Ed Gilmore, my stepfather, worked for 30 years as a corporate jet…
Rosen on Bee blogs
The Sacramento Bee is getting hipdeep in blogging, and lately it’s been scraping some of the mud off its pantlegs. Jay Rosen has a nice accounting of it all.
All about blogging
J.D. Lasica has a page of articles about what this all means.