There are a lot of fish swimming around in the Internet fish bowl, but as the school of journos go looking for how they fit in, I like some of the more open attempts at communicating what we’re working on.
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We can, and need to, co-opt myspace and Facebook but better than that is […]

What would be of interest to you, our readers, for reporting on politics?

Let me know by reader comment. I’d say one of my favorite bloggers is Amy Gahran of contentious.com who also writes for Poynter.

I posted the stuff below a couple weeks ago. Now the supply side comes forward hoping new technology will find more oil. That’ll show those market speculators a thing or two.
It is still not well enough know or understood, in my opinion, that one of the worst offenders in the march of oil towards $100 […]

Let’s just be straightforward about this: We in the news media world like you the viewers and we see that while you like a lot of what we offer, you like some other things, too. We all have a myspace account now; many of us are on Facebook; a few of us Twitter and still […]

The columns in the Gaylord Herald Times have come flowing in recent weeks about publisher Jim Grisso’s pending retirement.  Dec. 21 will be his last day in the office, followed by some much deserved vacation after 14,000+ days.
Like anyone I know who has ever worked in newspapers, he won’t leave the industry entirely, coming back […]

Among the exciting new services our Web sites are offering to users is that of text messages on topics such as severe weather alerts, sports scores, and contests and promotions. Users can subscribe to receive these as text messages or as e-mail alerts. The response has been overwhelming.
In the last week, we’ve quadrupled the number […]