Linux magazine senior editor and super-blogger Doc Searls has a prescription for what ails newspapers. Here’s his 10-point plan, which he explains at length here: 1. Stop giving away the news and charging for the archives. 2. Start featuring archived stuff on the paper’s website. 3. Link outside the paper. 4. Start following, and linking […]
1st Amendment Coalition
Just got back from the California First Amendment Coalition event at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, where I met Milo Radulovich (pictured above), who rose to fame in the 1950s after Edward R. Murrow called out Joseph McCarthy. Radulovich’s story was the centerpiece of the 2005 George Clooney film “Good Night, and Good […]
The coming dramatic decline of YouTube?
Mark Cuban had this the other day: The Coming Dramatic Decline of Youtube. What is it about youtube.com that has made it so successful so quickly ? Is it the amazing quality of user generated content ? Is it a broadband fueled obsession with watching short videos ? No & No. Youtube’s rapid ascension to […]
First Amendment Coalition event
On tap: – Tomorrow and Saturday, the California First Amendment Coalition and the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism present the 11th annual Free Speech & Open Government Assembly. Arianna Huffington, Daniel Ellsberg and Judith Miller are among the speakers. I’ll be on a panel “Blogging and Citizen Journalism” from 10:30-11:45 a.m. Saturday with BlogHer’s […]
Back from Sweden
My keynote Sunday at Växjö University’s Participatory Academy went well, with quite a bit of interaction with the students and educators in the audience. I’ve posted a Flickr set of photos here. Another highlight was the time I spent with Pernilla Severson and Lars Mogensen at Malmö, particularly the hourlong meeting with Pernilla’s students about […]