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

Jumping without a parachute Dave Winer’s Find an airplane to jump out of In hindsight, the Times could have and should have been the new distribution system, but they would have had to be nimble to do that, and been willing to accept the feeling of jumping out of a plane with no parachute. They [...]

I use Google Reader like most RSS subscribers. But you know what? Tumblr’s better. (Added: I know Tumblr’s not a true RSS reader. Stick with me.) Here are five reasons: No “unread” counts I hate watching the number of unread items pile up until it hits “1000+.” Dave Winer thinks that’s the wrong way, too. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

You can read the premise behind this in the orginal news metaphor post, which was linked to by Jim Romenesko, Jay Rosen and The New York Times‘ David Carr, among others. That post has grown unmanageably large so I’ve created a category for it. You can still suggest metaphors via e-mail, Twitter, Publish2 (tagged “newsmetaphors”) [...]