Box 5

School’s in

I continue to neglect you, blog family, because I am in the final (I hope)...

Soccer is a Google beta. Football is a Microsoft release.

I’m an ignoramus about sports so take that dose of salt first. But while...

Eating one’s own dogfood

Steve Baker’s book, The Numerati, is about tracking and predicting...

Sponsors for books, continued

For those who were interested in this post asking about sponsorship for my...

Guardian column: Do we need editors?

This week’s Guardian column asks whether editors are a luxury we can...

Media on media

I’m set to be on Howie Kurtz’ Reliable Sources at 10a EDT today to...

How to build a network

I was talking with a media exec who started a blog ad network — bless him...

Covering conventions is an waste

Forbes.com reports that the number of journalists covering the conventions this...

Googlebits

A few fascinating tidbits from Jim Cramer’s interview with Google’s...

Excuses, excuses

I have three weeks to edit and revise my manuscript and get ready for the...

Sound the trumpets

I sent the last of my first draft of the book to my editor last night. I...

A stake through the heart of the has-been Inquirer

What the hell are they thinking in Philadelphia? Inquirer ME Mike Leary just...

The myth of the creative class

As I near the end of writing my book, one lesson that has struck me is about...

Coelho’s quest

Here is the bookend to my Guardian column about Paulo Coelho, Googley author....

Curmudgeonliness, with a twist

BlogNetNews pointed me to the curmudgeonly ending way, way down in Jody...

A newspaper’s life-and-death struggle, played out in a new medium

At the Star-Ledger’s new LedgerLive daily news show from the newsroom...

Supporting reporting

I just pledged to support David Cohn’s effort to prove that the public...

Still alive

I’m plowing through editing the second half of my book to hand in to my...

Soundbites R Us

I got a call from Mitchell Hartman of public radio’s Marketplace...

Who says big can’t be small?

That underwear ad you see to the right is one of 483 million American Apparel...

Guardian column: Paulo Coelho, pirate

My Guardian column this week is an interview with the Googliest author I know,...

Let me count the ways

On Twitter, newspaperman Howard Weaver asked — incredulity unspoken...

Sponsors for my book?

I’m writing the section of my book about publishing and exploring new...

Connected

Just listened to another great episode of Peter Day’s BBC business show,...

Twitpitch

Fred Wilson asked on Twitter this morning for a good place to have a cup of...