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

WordPress just added support on its hosted blogs (all 7.5 million of them) for a new Dave Winer project called RSS Cloud. It is system for RSS, which allows users to subscribe to content and is also the hidden backbone for services such as Twitter, that updates compatible readers in real time.
Essentially, this is an [...]

So I installed Le Petite URL, which generates a shortened URL for posting on my own domain, and registered nberg.us (it isn’t immediately functional but by the time you read this it should be). I just wanted to run a test.

This time about The Des Moines Register turning over sketches, from his time at the paper, to the University of Iowa for archiving. I understand Brian’s frustration, but it might be time to move on, buddy.

Apparently Jim Duncan, the food writer for the Des Moines alternative weekly City View, thought enough of my work to name me best new food writer in his most recent column.
This “new media” Iowa journalist wrote old fashioned rings around other young food reporters in traditional media — by practicing self examination without self indulgence [...]

If only we could have historic events every day, maybe newspapers wouldn’t be in such trouble. Some very nice A1s ran this morning.
The nicest A1 I saw was from Mr. Obama’s hometown tabloid, the Chicago Sun-Times. Simple. The Des Moines Register’s was simple and effective and I’m a fan of not trying to make the [...]