Nick Bergus Thoughts on what media do, and can do better, and other things

A story posted by KCRG warns potential renters and home buyer about the dangers of finding property online! As technology improves, criminals keep finding new ways to scam people. Realtors say more and more con artists are trying to take advantage of people looking to buy or rent homes online. See, Realtors nowadays have to [...]

About a month ago, HP agreed to buy Palm, primarily for the company’s mobile operating system webOS, which is replacing Windows 7 on the company’s touted forthcoming tablet.  A sexy mobile OS is great and all, but my recent interactions suggest a deeper problem for HP that it has to fix. At NLTV, every year I find [...]

The Titanic Phillip Kaplan describing news startup Publish2′s News Exchange at TechCruch Disrupt On one hand, it feels like selling paint to the Titanic. Also I’m not sure if I want newspapers to survive and thrive, as they’ve basically disrupted themselves Dinosaurs Jeffery Bussgan describing news startup Publish2′s News Exchange at TechCruch Disrupt It felt [...]

Today, The New Yorker said on Twitter: We are now on @tumblr! Follow us: http://newyorker.tumblr.com/ But the magazine has 199 pages of Tumblr posts and its first post is dated Dec. 1, 2009. So really they meant We are now going to try to pay attention to our @tumblr! Follow us: http://newyorker.tumblr.com/ or We remembered [...]

Just a few points that I wanted to make in response to the conversation I was having with Dave Schwartz on Twitter about Facebook’s ever-changing privacy policy and the growing complaints about it that doesn’t quite fit in 140 characters: Facebook isn’t “free” for users. It doesn’t cost them money (unless they’re buying gifts or game credits [...]

Civil Beat’s John Templeton, quoted on Twitter Civil Beat is a “permeable membrane.” Paid and free components. Lots of content and conversation available for free. tip of the hat to Howard Weaver

Twitter released a small, simple app called Blackbird Pie that, when Twitter isn’t painfully slow and blogged down, should make it easy to embed a tweet in a blog post. It creates little bit of static HTML code that you can plop in a page. Like so: This is a tweet that I will later [...]