The Future Of Publishing Blog by Thad McIlroy
June 2nd, 2010
…quoted the blogger on his blog. © Asa Mathat, the Wall Street Journal At the All Things Digital conference last night, Steve Jobs, asked whether the iPad will be a savior for content creators, said: “I don’t want to see us descend into a nation of bloggers…I think we need editorial oversight now more than…
May 24th, 2010
In my May 15th blog entry, “Privacy, Facebook and the Future of Publishing,” I looked at the recent brouhaha (haven’t used that word in awhile) over Facebook’s info-grab from its “more than 400 million active users” (as Facebook crows on its depressing stats page). Today Facebook Inc.’s founder and chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, published an…
May 21st, 2010
What are the two worst things about the comments sections in online news outlets for articles and (even worse) for blogs or other opinion pieces? The first is that contentious topics draw so many comments that you would need a day or two to read them (assuming you would want to). The lead article on The…
May 20th, 2010
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May 16th, 2010
It’s Sunday, so a good day to keep blog entries light and fun. I should save serious for weekdays. I bought the June 2010 issue of ConsumerReports the other day. The inside back cover has a regular offering called Selling It: Goofs, Glitches, Gotchas featuring humorous reader-submitted illustrations of products and promotions that perhaps never…