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

My Covervette Sherman Frederick’s Copyright theft: We’re not taking it anymore It is the protection of that journalism that I want to talk about today. Look at this way. Say I owned a beautiful 1967 Corvette and kept it parked in my front yard. And you, being a Corvette enthusiast, saw my Vette from the [...]

Porn Andy Medici’s Strange Bedfellows: What Journalism Can Learn From Adult Entertainment Imagine you are working in an industry that has been battered by the recent recession and rapid advances in technology. Instead of paying for teams of professionals, people are going online to find new content like yours or create their own. The Internet [...]

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 [...]

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

A race that doesn’t matter Cody Brown on Twitter Winning a Pulitzer Prize in 2010 is winning a carriage race in 1910. There is no prize yet for the people making the biggest impact on J.

Mercury astronauts Sam Whitmore and Mathew Ingram on Twitter @samwhitmore: iPad: @mathewi criticizes the Mercury astronauts for not reaching the moon http://bit.ly/aP56Vz … it takes time, Mathew. @mathewi: I’m not criticizing them for not reaching the moon, @samwhitmore — I’m saying their spaceship looks like an old Buick :-)

A too-quick-to-adapt Burger King John P. Garrett’s Newspapers and the Burger King mentality. How would you like your news? I believe the news business has been spinning mostly in circles not because the executives are slow to adapt to new technologies as many of the new media experts gripe. On the contrary, the news business [...]

A quarterback who just doesn’t get it Dave Winer to Jay Rosen, 33 minutes into Rebooting the News #43 It’s like in football. … When the quarterback gets the ball, the quarterback always turns back and runs a few yards back before even thinking about passing the ball. And you think, “Why is the quarterback [...]

William Durant and General Motors Tommy Thomason’s Pew Report is good news and bad news for community journalism William Durant didn’t like automobiles. Durant, who was in the carriage business in the 1890s, thought cars were smelly and noisy, not to mention downright dangerous.  But he realized that automobiles, as distasteful as he thought them to [...]

An arthritic geriatric complaining about being an arthritic Daniel Clowes in The New Yorker “Look at this — a front-page story about how bad things are in the newspaper business! Talk about solipsistic! My god, it’s like listening to an old lady complain about arthritis!” via John McQuaid