Posts from ‘March, 2009’

The velocity of commentary increases every week. First, there was Clay Shirky’s excellent piece on the future of newspapers. Now, there’s a piece in the Nation, written by John Nichols and Robert W. McChesney, that comes close to being a manifesto for the movement to save the papers. We’re not normally given to hyperbole, but [...]

Last week was busy, and full of surprises. It was busy because, among other things, I wrote my first piece for Mashable: “10 Ways Newspapers are Using Social Media to Save the Industry.” I received lots of comments, most of them positive, and the level of Twitter traffic confirmed that this is an important, often [...]