Cold River, a kind of story for readers who thirst after exciting foreign non-fiction - a fluid memoir You are different. So is Cold River
If all of this sounds like a substantial re-thinking of the economics of American newspapers, that's what it is. And it's time Prof dreams of newspapering freed from the profit motive
The Blog, The Press, The Media: Lesson One: you need a lot of money.
Since the late 1990s policymakers in most OECD countries have been looking for ways to maintain the employment that underpins the wealth of their countries’ citizens.
The story of Silicon Valley shows that successfully linking science and industry may not be as easy as just adopting a winning formula. That doesn’t mean we can’t learn from the Silicon Valley experience. Lesson One: you need a lot of money. The 21st century ‘knowledge era’ promises that science will kick start new industries and refashion older ones. In this vision of the future, economies will no longer rely on steel and ‘rust belt’ industry. IT and biotechnology are keystones of the ‘new’ industrial order, the ‘clean’ and ‘knowledge-based’ engines that will drive both economies and societies.
• Jane Marceau Why Can’t We All Have a Silicon Valley? [ Newspaper websites shouldn't try to out-Google Google ; PR: retrain its work force, recognize the influence and credibility of blogs and experiment Now it's time to go the distance ; Hurricane Katrina made clear blogs are a useful, if not mission-critical, form of communication. They've earned their keep over the past week, even in an area where communications and Internet connections are compromised. Bloggers aren't exactly free spirits, but be prepared for the unexpected and disruptive. Bloggers love to disrupt the status quo by one-upping reporters or waving attractive "add-water-and-stir" content-management tricks -- better, faster, and cheaper -- in front of wounded, frustrated Webmasters Ten Simple Rules for Dating a Blogger ]
• · The Voice of the Blog: The Attitudes and Experiences of Small Business Bloggers Using Blogs as a Marketing and Communications Tool ; The Language of Weblogs: A study of genre and individual differences
• · · My thoughts on this matter are no different than sex, drugs and rock and roll. Have an open dialog with your kids about what are the do's and don'ts of online behavior Monitoring your children online? ; j quiggin Contests and departures ; We start work when most people are quitting for the day, and we develop the kind of gallows humor that comes from regularly ingesting stories of humanity at its worst -Newspaper copy desks attract a quirky bunch of people Keep the Internet. Just give me Jeff Balsai's brain
• · · · j quiggin Miles of comments ; The Year in Review
• · · · · Mike Wallace: Between you and me ; Film: Good Night, And Good Luck ; How to Make Up Stories for the Tabloids, Fox News, etc. ; The White House's Media Takedow
• · · · · · Blogs are an interesting phenomenon to look at, but I don't think to date that they're as compelling as some people think. There's an insider quality to blogs -- people who look at blogs tend to be political junkies or more cultural junkies Expert weighs in on the future of journalism ; Ex-Chicago Trib staffer launches Chicago Daily News online ; They have to figure out a way to honor the very best journalism … and not merely protect the newspaper industry Online journalists feel slighted by the Pulitzer Prize board
