Why SF Chronicle is Failing
John Battelle looks at what’s really ailing the San Francisco Chronicle.
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Two of my New England social media friends had a bit of a debate about content marketing yesterday. Chris Brogan strongly argued that your writing needs to contain an “ask” to be marketing and CC Chapman just as forcefully disagreed. First, let’s take a look at the actual argument. Then we can explore the more fundamental…
My friend Mark Story has decided to try to kick off a #blogmonday effort (sort of like the Twitter #followfriday campaign). Told him I’d play along, at least this once (I don’t know that I’ll do it weekly, but certainly periodically). Let me start with my must read blogs …
When a speaker or author drops the “f bomb,” utters excretory expletives, or launches a lusty cuss word, it doesn’t add emphasis. It doesn’t make them look cool, hip, and smart. It makes them seem crass, juvenile, arrogant, and less than they are. I say this not because I’m a linguistic purist. Far from it….
Kara Miller, an instructor on media issues at Babson College in Massachusetts, writes in her Culture Club blog at Boston.com about conflicts of interest in the media. Her focus is on the intersection between media coverage and sponsorship of media outlets. She concludes: Commercials, certainly, are not new to news shows. But there is something…
Reuters reports that The Washington Post will soon have its print editors working more collaboratively with its web editors in order to generate "more three-dimensional ways that you can present that news," in the words of Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr. It seems this really just formalizes and extends what the Post has already been…
Andrew Rasiej and Micah Sifry of the Personal Democracy Forum offer up an interesting column on Politico today where they argue that “we” replaces “me” in the online political lexicon. They note that Barack Obama’s campaign has clearly stimulated great interest in the use of the Internet for politics and advocacy, but they question whether…
