A couple of months ago I highlighted the awesome effort by citizen journalism pioneer David Cohn to — through his new startup, Spot.us — fund a journalistic work by tapping a community of readers. I and others contributed to the cause, and now we have a result: Alexis Madrigal’s community-funded article on biofuels and [...]
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Mann on How to Blog
One joy — and challenge — of developing fourteen (14!) blogs from scratch is the need to break down the act of blogging to its basic elements. Among other things, that has meant going back to the basics about what makes good blogs (you know what they are) so damn good.
Merlin Mann to the rescue. [...]
Baracky II
Why do Obama supporters make better videos than McCain supporters?
“The Waste Land” vs. Boing Boing
I can’t decide if I agree or violently disagree with David Brooks in his latest column.
…there have been three epochs of intellectual affectation. The first, lasting from approximately 1400 to 1965, was the great age of snobbery. Cultural artifacts existed in a hierarchy, with opera and fine art at the top, and stripping at the [...]
The debates, now with embeddable video!
During my time at techPresident I spent a lot of time criticizing and praising the efforts of folks like MySpace and YouTube to team up with old school media outlets like CNN and MTV to produce new kinds of participatory debates. Not all of the results were good (the first YouTube/CNN Democratic debate was a [...]
Changing the Rules
Day Two (for me) of Netroots Nation and I’m a bit fuzzier-headed than I was yetserday, thanks to free Chimays at the HuffPost/GQ party last night and an unspecified amount of beers afterwards.
But I woke up here at a panel on health care and the web. Melinda Gibson from Health Care for America Now just [...]
Journos: funded
A few days ago I begged, no, pleaded with you to help fund David Cohn’s first experiment in community-funded journalism, via the the freshly-launched Spot.us.
It worked: Alex Madrigal raised $250 from folks like you and me to go out and research and write a piece on the role of ethanol in the California energy industry. [...]
So this is how the New Yorker stays relevant
Apparently the New Yorker is facing flagging sales, or maybe David Remnick stared at the abyss of irrelevance and said, “we need to shake this mofo up.”
I’m guessing the latter is the excuse for this week’s ridiculous, offensive, unnecessary cover of Barack and Michelle in Taliban drag doing the ol’ terrorist fistbump.
I’ve long been a [...]
