Posts from ‘August, 2006’

Who’s writing the hilarious fake blog, “The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, Aged 51 1/2?”

The time has come, plainly, for journalists to start getting savvy about the use of technology for secure communications.

In Vanity Fair, Michael Bronner has produced a tour-de-force, “9/11 Live: The NORAD Tapes,” a dramatic reconstruction, based on newly released audio tapes, of how military and civilian authorities responded during the 2001 attacks. (Among other findings, Bronner makes clear that the military and White House dissembled like crazy in the aftermath.) He’s combined terrific […]

Nicholas Lemann, dean at Columbia University’s journalism school, takes to the pages of the New Yorker to rehash the same old bloggers-v-journalists straw man, contributing practically nothing to this long-tired conversation, though he does come up with some interesting items from journalism history. The best responses: Steven Johnson, tired of this, too, briefly offers “Five […]

Here’s his introduction to the unconference session he’ll run next Monday, entitled “Above the Noise“.

The Real Estate Bubble Map is exactly the kind of thing I think Web mashups can do best.

Steve Garfield, a great videoblogger, will lead a session at next Monday’s Citizen Journalism Un-Conference. Here’s his summary of what we’ll discuss.

The police want to stop photography in public places; we need to resist.

Mel Gibson’s problems were accelerated by the Net.

The LA Times editors are in a tizzy about the prospect of advertising on their section fronts. Apparently they don’t read their own website.