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

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 :-)

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 [...]