A little history
For some time now, I’ve been thinking and writing about many of the topics I intend to blog about. Here’s a little chronologically-ordered trip through some of my past writings.
- Journalists are so weird (7/04): In which I first implicitly express my disdain for our obsessive focus on breaking news, no matter how trivial.
- Who is a journalist? (3/05): “It’s journalism, not journalists, we should be struggling to protect. I think we sometimes lose that distinction.”
- ErrorPedia (4/05): In which I establish my fascination with Wikipedia, while proposing an interesting-if-problematic model for corrections on the Web.
- The era of slow news (7/05): “The Internet is slowing the news cycle down. Way down. It’s so slow, it’s turning the clock backwards.”
- Three rants on Rick (Part I) & Part II (11/05): Some snarky thoughts on citizen journalism, into which I also smuggle a mention of Wikipedia.
- ‘Pedia still astonishingly awesome (12/05): In which I yet again sing the praises of Wikipedia, including many comparisons to the newspaper. Don’t miss the comments.
- The press’ new paradigm (4/06): In which I discuss Watergate, Enron, and the transition from information scarcity to info overload. (One of Jason Kottke’s favorite links of 2006!)
- The intelligence pyramid (12/06): In which the Snarkmarket commenters and I explore the nature of truth.
- The attention deficit - the need for timeless journalism (8/07): In which I deliver my second major broadside against “the tyranny of recency.”
- Newspaper eulogy - a footnote (6/08): “There’s a lot I won’t miss about The Newspaper. And what I would miss, I firmly believe society can sustain. But to begin to figure out how, we’ve got to move beyond the conversation about rescuing The Newspaper, or saving Journalism, and talk specifically about what really matters.”
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