sxc.hu I’ve lost count of the number of newspapers which have gone under since the beginning of the year. We’re not even through the first quarter of the year and yet, many (except those in the business who are desperately staying on top of every single death)  have simply stopped count...

It’s interesting to watch any person or group of people wrestle with hard truths about themselves. If you happen to be that person or in that group it goes beyond interesting and can hit “painful” rather rapidly! Yet truthful and legitimate self evaluation is both healthy and vital...

For a couple years now, I’ve been working with editors, reporters, and commenters on news sites taking the following hypothesis as a given: Commenters will be the most civil in the place that is the most public. For example, I expected commenters on news stories, where more people could see th...

Chances are if you didn't know anything about Web publishing a few months ago, you do now. News about the industry is hard to escape, and its growing popularity will continue as long as the economy spirals downward. The last few weeks have proved productive for those interested in expanding and prom...

Hey, making massively multiplayer online games is difficult. Sometimes things slip through the cracks. But that doesn't mean we can't poke fun at EVE Online when it accidentally snatches the totally wrong texture from the hard-drive. Seems EVE Online likes to grab images of the Mac OS X CPU monitor ...

Questa è una storia che riguarda certo il giornalismo “degli altri”, ma - in un certo senso - è anche “nostra”. Parla di un collega di Vicenza che lavora da due anni per un giornale online…  solo che il collega in questione è un cittadino del Bangladesh e il sito pe...

Mark Potts on what it takes to shift a news organization’s focus from print to Web: “How many newspapers have a sizable staff responsible for managing print circulation? All of them of course. Now, how many have even one staff member responsible for managing online distribution via RSS, ...

The moment that launched years of overzealous information consumption, filtering, sharing, and engagement, for me, was seeing Scoble’s feedreader on a screen in 2005.  He was subscribed to 1200 feeds. Since then, he’s shifted his information production and consumption around from stream...

Over at Signal vs. Noise, Jason Fried explains “why the Drudge Report is one of the best designed sites on the Web.” “The Drudge Report usually leads with a “font size=+7â€� ALL CAPS headline in Arial. Sometimes it’s italicized. Sometimes, for something big big, he’ll cap it ...

Muxtape has my attention. It’s not terribly social. It’s not much of a network. In fact, it’s so devoid of features, there’s little to distract you from listening to music, which is what you showed up to do. The front page of the site is dead simple: A colorful list of mixtap...