Month: August 2007

  • A bludgeon for Blodgett

    Are newspapers irreconcilably screwed as Internet economy analyst Henry Blodgett says. London-based strategic analyst Seamus McCauley says no, but he doesn’t see happy days for lots of them either. Blodgett’s argument and the argument of many others is that we’re overflowing with news and this gives news creators no pricing power. And even in the…

  • Building bridges before a disaster

    Is Twitter the future of breaking news? A post by David Erickson has a fantastic collection of how people (as opposed to the nada phrase “Citizen Journalist”) covered the Minneapolis bridge collapse. Be sure to browse that. Erickson is an Internet marketing and PR guy in Minneapolis. He first got wind of the collapse via…

  • It’s hot out here

    It’s rough jogging in this heat!     SessionsCalories burned Time exercising Miles jogged/eliptical   Actual5 2592 3:36 14.74   Target 4 2000 3:15 No advice   Miles to date in August, 26.95 Tags: jogging | fatbloggers | jason calacanis