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BuzzMachine

2009–2026

1,097 posts

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2026 21

October 2026

  1. A day in the life of the #BrokenTimes

September 2026

  1. They’re covering the wrong AI story
  2. 25 Years
  3. Labor and the Linotype

August 2026

  1. Sam Clemens, compositor
  2. Introducing my book ‘Hot Type’
  3. Words matter. Damnit.

July 2026

  1. AI Communism

June 2026

  1. California’s squandered opportunity
  2. To redefine progress
  3. (The) Public(‘s) Media: The New Jersey Model
  4. AI has a communication problem

May 2026

  1. Mourning that which never was
  2. Don Newhouse
  3. Pope Leo and human intelligence
  4. Ted Turner

April 2026

  1. Technology Does Not Belong to the Technologists

March 2026

  1. Announcing ‘Intelligence: AI and Humanity’
  2. Habermas and his coffeehouses
  3. Rethinking intelligence

January 2026

  1. Back from a brink

2025 7

September 2025

  1. The nation is lost

August 2025

  1. Len Tow

July 2025

  1. Whither Colbert? Whither democracy
  2. The Times’ Mamdani vendetta

February 2025

  1. Here we go again

January 2025

  1. The whole world is whining
  2. How the #BrokenTimes covers the fascist oligarchy

2024 27

November 2024

  1. It’s the racism, stupid
  2. How Fucked Are We? Very.

October 2024

  1. The technology addiction trope

September 2024

  1. How they have failed us
  2. What’s become of The Times & Co.?
  3. The unprecedented grand coalition

August 2024

  1. How Murdoch makes a meme
  2. California’s Deal for News
  3. Could a new day dawn at The Times?
  4. What ‘Press’?

July 2024

  1. White voters heard here
  2. In mass media’s death throes
  3. As complicated as Black and white

June 2024

  1. How to save news?
  2. The new pyramid of discovery
  3. This is no way to save the news

May 2024

  1. Demote the doomsters
  2. News bills: From bad to worse

April 2024

  1. The Times is broken
  2. Newspapers can be jerks

March 2024

  1. AI in Reflection

February 2024

  1. Reflections in the ‘woke’ mirror

January 2024

  1. Is it time to give up on old news?
  2. Make Bell Labs an internet museum
  3. In the echo chamber
  4. Journalism and AI
  5. A journalism of belief and belonging

2023 11

November 2023

  1. Artificial general bullshit

September 2023

  1. Gibberish from the machine
  2. A generation later: What have we learned?
  3. Moving on
  4. Copyright and AI and journalism

August 2023

  1. A few unpopular opinions about AI

June 2023

  1. California’s protectionist legislation
  2. ChatGPT goes to court

May 2023

  1. Trafficking in traffic

April 2023

  1. Darrell V. Jarvis, 1926-2023

February 2023

  1. Journalism is lossy compression

2022 17

December 2022

  1. Writing as exclusion
  2. We, the tweeters

November 2022

  1. On joining Mastodon
  2. Telling the story that defies telling
  3. Hope for a post-Musk net

October 2022

  1. Habermas online
  2. 20 Post-it provocations on media

September 2022

  1. Publishers’ political blackmail
  2. — BuzzMachine

August 2022

  1. The story media miss: themselves

June 2022

  1. How harmful is it?

May 2022

  1. Toward a journalistic ethic of citation

April 2022

  1. Concede defeat to bad speech

March 2022

  1. Where is our moral line in Ukraine?

February 2022

  1. Who’s breaking the news?

January 2022

  1. The journalism of expectations
  2. Web .0000012

2021 15

December 2021

  1. Continua: Lessons from two books on books
  2. Disinformation is not *the* problem

October 2021

  1. Studying the internet
  2. God made a social network

September 2021

  1. Aftermath

July 2021

  1. Someone made my father sick

May 2021

  1. A thank-you note to the net

March 2021

  1. Statement to the Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust

February 2021

  1. Murdoch’s law and the net
  2. In league with Murdoch
  3. Scissors and Murdoch’s cynicism

January 2021

  1. Here comes the judge
  2. Trump v. Facebook
  3. The Counter-Reformation
  4. Speechless: An allegory for our time

2020 24

December 2020

  1. Our movement

October 2020

  1. The roots of totalitarianism & Trump: To a new journalism
  2. Trump’s scorched Earth
  3. Facebook: Constitution before statutes

September 2020

  1. The end of applause
  2. Attacks on the People’s Press

August 2020

  1. The YouTube convention
  2. The history of print, media & journalism in 45 minutes
  3. A few pandemic pivots

June 2020

  1. The time is now, cable news
  2. Journalism school: Why now?
  3. The last stand of the old, white man
  4. Mark Zuckerberg: Now is the time for your Oversight Board
  5. Speech is not harmful: A lesson to be relearned

May 2020

  1. Sprouts from the ashes
  2. A conversation with Steak-umm’s Twitter voice, Nathan Allebach

April 2020

  1. The open information ecosystem
  2. COVID Journalism: Episodes 1-4
  3. 9/11-19

March 2020

  1. Time for Experts
  2. In this crisis, God bless the net

February 2020

  1. Stop. Stop the presses.

January 2020

  1. The next net: expertise
  2. In defense of targeting

2019 24

December 2019

  1. Enough testosterone
  2. Thank you, Kamala Harris

November 2019

  1. Harmful speech as the new porn
  2. Polls subvert democracy: Media’s willful erasure of Kamala Harris’ campaign

October 2019

  1. Unpopular decisions

September 2019

  1. For a National Journalism Jury
  2. ‘Decomputerize?’ Over My Dead Laptop!
  3. How the Dystos Defeated the Technos: A dystopian vision

August 2019

  1. Worries
  2. Governance: Facebook designs its oversight board (should journalism?)
  3. Beto to journalism: ‘What the fuck?’

July 2019

  1. Evidence, please

June 2019

  1. News Publishers Go To War With the Internet — and We All Lose

May 2019

  1. Regulating the net is regulating us

April 2019

  1. A Crisis of Cognition
  2. Proposals for Reasonable Technology Regulation and an Internet Court

March 2019

  1. Media Education and Change

February 2019

  1. Europe Against the Net
  2. Scorched Earth

January 2019

  1. Journalism is the conversation. The conversation is journalism.
  2. We Have Met the Problem. Guess Who?
  3. A Rising Moral Panic
  4. The kids are alright. Grandpa’s the problem.
  5. Hot Trump. Cool @aoc.

2018 15

December 2018

  1. The Spiegel Scandal and the Seduction of Storytelling
  2. Facebook. Sigh.

August 2018

  1. There is no Trump without Murdoch
  2. Congratulations, America. Victory against Infowars!

July 2018

  1. Gutenberg in Mainz
  2. Finding the line

June 2018

  1. Thank You, Craig

May 2018

  1. Thank you, Secretary Clinton

April 2018

  1. What’s Wrong With This Picture?
  2. Making Roseanne and Racism Ready for Prime Time

March 2018

  1. To Facebook — and Its Critics: Please Don’t Screw Up Our Internet
  2. Perspective, please
  3. The Flight to Quality is on the Runway

January 2018

  1. What Makes a Community?
  2. Facebook’s changes

2017 9

December 2017

  1. Death to the Mass(es)!
  2. Democracy Dies in the Light

October 2017

  1. Moral Authority as a Platform

June 2017

  1. Our problem isn’t ‘fake news.’ Our problems are trust and manipulation.

May 2017

  1. Fueling a flight to quality

April 2017

  1. Jimmy Wales’ new Wikitribune
  2. Real News

March 2017

  1. Quality over crap

February 2017

  1. Trump & the Press: A Murder-Suicide Pact

2016 21

December 2016

  1. Merry Christmas, Hillary Clinton

November 2016

  1. A Call for Cooperation Against Fake News

October 2016

  1. Empathetic journalism for the right
  2. How Trump’s mere existence delegitimizes Clinton’s candidacy and presidency — and what we must do about that

September 2016

  1. ‘Change’ is bullshit
  2. My Facebook op-ed
  3. 15 years later
  4. Dear Mark Zuckerberg
  5. Apology to Mexico
  6. Apology to Germany

August 2016

  1. The News and its New Silent Majority: Clinton Supporters
  2. Specimens of Old Journalism
  3. Sorry, Nick
  4. Native advertising: Another false messiah?
  5. From Media to Memes: Lessons from Occupy Democrats
  6. Dear Morning Joe,

June 2016

  1. Facebookmageddon? Not so soon
  2. Getting Google and Publishers to Share Love — and Data

April 2016

  1. Meeting and Exceeding the News Business’ Hiring Needs

March 2016

  1. The First Amendment and a couple of pricks

February 2016

  1. STOP THE PRESSES! The Independent is Dead. Long Live the Independent.

2015 43

October 2015

  1. Aaron Sorkin and the Technological Arts
  2. To a faster — and distributed — web
  3. Social Journalism: Apply & hire now!

September 2015

  1. Honoring Neil deGrasse Tyson for his journalism
  2. More innovation at CUNY
  3. Capturing the history of our early web: Vogue.com & Style.com
  4. Advertising sucks. Let us listicle the ways.

August 2015

  1. Trump’s press
  2. Hacking through Amazon’s jungle of coverage
  3. What Would Alphabet Do?
  4. New video powerhouse
  5. Journalism is not a crime: A letter to German authorities

July 2015

  1. Exploding our ideas of membership: A CUNY summit
  2. How (not) to interview
  3. The state of hyperlocal
  4. An object lesson for native content makers

May 2015

  1. Calling all entrepreneurial–and social–journalism educators
  2. Playing leapfrog and werewolf with Google and Facebook
  3. Geeks Bearing Gifts: The final chapters
  4. I, for one, welcome our new newsstand
  5. Geeks Bearing Gifts: Metrics
  6. Geeks Bearing Gifts: The Link Economy and Creditright
  7. Content in the social Mode

April 2015

  1. Geeks Bearing Gifts: The Pricing Paradox of Information
  2. Geeks Bearing Gifts: Patronage
  3. Geeks Bearing Gifts: Paywalls
  4. Want to turn a beat into a business? We will train and support you. For free. Apply now!

March 2015

  1. It’s the relationship, stupid
  2. Google? Evil?
  3. Who needs edittors?
  4. Geeks Bearing Gifts: Advertising, the Myth of Mass Media, and the Relationship Strategy
  5. Geeks Bearing Gifts: Business Ecosystems
  6. Geeks Bearing Gifts: Beat Businesses as Building Blocks of News Ecosystems

February 2015

  1. Geeks Bearing Gifts: Efficiency … The Final Cut
  2. Geeks Bearing Gifts: Digital First — What Then?
  3. David Carr
  4. NBC’s opportunity
  5. Geeks Bearing Gifts: The Story So Far

January 2015

  1. Geeks Bearing Gifts: Untapped Technologies
  2. Media = content + people
  3. Geeks Bearing Gifts: Reinventing TV News
  4. Free speech is not a privilege. It is a journalistic responsibility.
  5. Geeks Bearing Gifts: Mobile=Local=Me: Context over Content

2014 48

December 2014

  1. Geeks Bearing Gifts: Curation & Data
  2. Geeks Bearing Gifts, Part II: Forms – The Article is Dead. Long Live the Article.
  3. Geeks Bearing Gifts: New roles for journalists
  4. Geeks Bearing Gifts: News ecosystems
  5. Spain’s link tax forces Google News to shut there
  6. Geeks Bearing Gifts: Content vs. Service
  7. That German guy and his beard
  8. Geeks Bearing Gifts: No Mas Mass Media
  9. My new book coming to Medium: Free!

November 2014

  1. Journalism & technology: to duel or dance?
  2. Innovation day at CUNY with Shane Smith and Bill Gross
  3. Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News

October 2014

  1. Building trust in news
  2. Oh, those Germans

September 2014

  1. Inside an entrepreneur’s sausage factory
  2. A most cynical letter from a most cynical company
  3. Technoeuropanic
  4. The problem with “takes” is the business model of mass media

August 2014

  1. What could social journalism do for Ferguson?
  2. What society are we building here?
  3. Unoriginal sin
  4. Absolution? Hell, no
  5. Come reinvent TV news
  6. The decootification of media companies
  7. La vita cloudy

July 2014

  1. No silver bullets
  2. Send your comment to the FCC on net neutrality. Here’s mine.

June 2014

  1. Friendly skies
  2. The German war against the link
  3. If you teach entrepreneurial journalism….
  4. Entertainment Weekly, the genesis

May 2014

  1. The right to remember, damnit
  2. Calling all entrepreneurial journalism profs

April 2014

  1. The social journalism degree proposal
  2. A degree in social journalism
  3. A German business model
  4. What now for news? Relationships

March 2014

  1. Good metrics, bad metrics
  2. Listen: They do exist
  3. The price of eggs

February 2014

  1. Philanthropy and the news
  2. What now for news?
  3. Rethinking TV news, Part III: First, kill the stand-up

January 2014

  1. News as assets
  2. Brazil, Snowden & the net at Davos
  3. For the diseased
  4. The newest New York Times
  5. Rethinking TV news part II: Experiments with forms and models

2013 68

December 2013

  1. Rethinking TV news, Part I: What’s broken, what’s possible
  2. Metadata is knowledge and knowledge itself is not the problem
  3. Pat Ryan
  4. The almost-post mortem for Patch
  5. The technologists’ Hippocratic oath
  6. Repost me

November 2013

  1. Past the page
  2. Oversight by conscience
  3. CMS as media salvation. Not.
  4. The Verizon saga continues

October 2013

  1. Maybe news is just more efficient
  2. Viral bullshit as the new classifieds

September 2013

  1. Attention v. relationship economy
  2. Protecting journalism v journalists
  3. The spy trade
  4. First, the good news
  5. This is what prior restraint looks like
  6. Verizon responds, and so do I
  7. TelHell thus far
  8. Verizon, caught red-handed
  9. Testing for TWiG
  10. A sullied date
  11. The war on secrecy

August 2013

  1. Andy Murray Auto Awesome
  2. What are you thinking, Mr. President?
  3. The NSA, Germany, and journalism
  4. NSA by the numbers
  5. Prof
  6. Tech companies: Whose side are you on?
  7. Give up on the net?
  8. Patches
  9. Der Spiegel & the fate of newspapers
  10. Jeff’s Post problem
  11. Hot off the presses

July 2013

  1. Media, left out of the relationship
  2. All hail Justin Smith
  3. Google’s TV
  4. Demonstrating Google Glass
  5. What is journalism, redux

June 2013

  1. There are no journalists
  2. All journalism is advocacy (or it isn’t)
  3. Lessons from Waze for media
  4. I trust Waze
  5. Matters of principle

May 2013

  1. To the dauntless lensmen
  2. Demo of Repost.US
  3. In the End Was the Word and the Word Was the Sponsor’s
  4. Selling ads by time, not space
  5. Apologies
  6. Advice

April 2013

  1. And now the news: Here’s what we *don’t* know at this hour…
  2. A media attack
  3. Technopanic: The Movie

March 2013

  1. The coolest Canadian
  2. We are Manning
  3. Living the Google life
  4. NY Times technobias
  5. It’s not about content: Part I
  6. Hyperlocal cooties
  7. I see you: The technopanic over Google Glass
  8. Voluntary media
  9. Roll over, Gutenberg

February 2013

  1. Defining trolls
  2. Cover Sandy recovery and get money

January 2013

  1. Public is public…except in journalism?
  2. Learning the true value of content from Aaron Swartz
  3. We get the net—and society—we build
  4. — BuzzMachine

2012 81

December 2012

  1. Atomizing the article
  2. NRA arms Santa’s elves
  3. I confess a journalistic sin
  4. Taxes are an obligation, not a moral choice
  5. Why The Daily is counting its days

November 2012

  1. Journalism as service: Lessons from Sandy
  2. Defend our net (from Germany, this time)
  3. Content vs. service in media & education
  4. Thanks
  5. What stands between us and electricity
  6. Ideas to handle NJ’s gas crisis.
  7. Sandy

October 2012

  1. Crossing the Channel
  2. Start the presses
  3. The Argo election

September 2012

  1. Recommended: A book by my boss
  2. Advice to media & Muslims: Don’t feed the trolls
  3. The 11th 11th
  4. The news we can afford

August 2012

  1. Reporters: Why are you in Tampa?
  2. Without mediation
  3. Copyright v creditright
  4. Mobile’s not the next big thing, just a path to it
  5. The responsibilities and opportunities of the platform

July 2012

  1. #twitterfail ethics & economics
  2. The silver lining in the #nbcfail cloud
  3. #nbcfail economics
  4. I see clouds over New York news
  5. The trouble with content
  6. Is ABC News made in America?
  7. Big news in Hyperlocaland
  8. It’s not a mobile phone. So what is it?
  9. Verizon thinks the net is its newspaper
  10. Can we reimagine TV news (please)?
  11. Public and private

June 2012

  1. Calling Dr. Google
  2. The scoop is dead and deserves to be
  3. Disrupting journalism education, too
  4. Theft v. sharing

May 2012

  1. News articles as assets and paths
  2. The (not so) daily news
  3. Creepy
  4. Consumer Reports’ moral panic
  5. Social (network) pressure

April 2012

  1. Journalism Inside®
  2. A new BuzzMachine
  3. Good CUNY news
  4. The (continuing) institutional revolution
  5. OMFG! Change! Media freaks out!
  6. Mapping new opportunities in technology and news
  7. The importance of JOBS

March 2012

  1. Lies
  2. Whither capitalism?

February 2012

  1. Gutenberg the Geek, reviewed
  2. Rewired youth?
  3. Gutenberg the Geek: A Kindle Single
  4. Leave our net alone*
  5. Piracy v. do not track
  6. A letter to 2040
  7. Profitable news
  8. Are media in the content business?
  9. Economist debate on sharing: closing
  10. Economist debate on sharing: Round II
  11. Privacy and speech
  12. The temporary, pop-up corporation
  13. Economist debate on sharing
  14. Sin or sense?
  15. Facebook goes public: Zuckerberg in Public Parts & WWGD?

January 2012

  1. Efficiency over growth (and jobs)
  2. Davos, disrupted
  3. Public Parts on Reding’s four pillars
  4. #DLD12: Viviane Reding on privacy
  5. Where Gutenberg worked
  6. We are the lobbyists
  7. Network knowledge
  8. Murdoch doesn’t understand links
  9. Shifting the discussion to principles
  10. Journalism via jokes
  11. Jon Stewart & SOPA (please)
  12. Bring back the busy signal
  13. So much for the penny press

2011 101

December 2011

  1. Very public health
  2. Something for that new ebook reader….
  3. A new M.A. in entrepreneurial journalism at CUNY
  4. FTC Fines Santa Claus Over COPPA Violations
  5. Why not a reverse meter?

November 2011

  1. Scaling fact-checking
  2. Do-not-track hypocrisy
  3. Occupy #OccupyWallStreet
  4. Debate on privacy: the fuller text
  5. Beta-think (and ending malaria)
  6. Our notion of nations
  7. Meanwhile, at Google+
  8. Dear Verizon,
  9. Digital First
  10. Power to the public

October 2011

  1. What is “digital first,” really?
  2. Book as process, book as byproduct, book as conversation
  3. A bad review of me
  4. My cancer is not random, it’s mine
  5. What Would Apple Do?
  6. iHeaven
  7. #OccupyWallStreet & the failure of institutions
  8. WSJ reviews Public Parts
  9. Cancer comedy
  10. Friends’ books

September 2011

  1. Brian Lehrer and Public Parts
  2. Public Parts reviewed
  3. Free Public Parts excerpt
  4. What Would Google Do? – in paperback
  5. Public Parts excerpt: Germany and privacy
  6. Public Parts: The introduction
  7. 9/11, in the mirror
  8. Beta-think and ending malaria
  9. Digital First, indeed
  10. But is it journalism? (Damnit)

August 2011

  1. How we could cover storms
  2. Fortune reviews Public Parts
  3. The disintegrating economics of newspaper circulation
  4. Disliking “Like” in Germany
  5. Rat poison
  6. Public Parts: a video
  7. Anonymity and social censorship in the UK riots
  8. The jobless future

July 2011

  1. No one owns a hashtag
  2. I cause a fleeting expletive
  3. The last mogul moments
  4. #fuckyouwashington
  5. PR and corruption theater
  6. What’s next for News Corp. and its worlds
  7. Help 2
  8. Will News Corp. leave the news business?
  9. Readers are our regulators
  10. A true threat to privacy
  11. An AmEx member no more
  12. What Google+ adds to news

June 2011

  1. Social is for sharing, not hiding
  2. Content, dethroned
  3. An article on the article
  4. Studying the link economy
  5. The article and the future of print
  6. The storyteller strikes back
  7. The orthodoxy of the article, part II
  8. On the Media on the e-G8
  9. I was wrong
  10. e-G8: A discussion about sovereignty
  11. Intelligence isn’t measured by the inch

May 2011

  1. Looking for that e-G8 post?
  2. The article as luxury or byproduct
  3. A Hippocratic oath for the internet
  4. News is a subset of the conversation
  5. Why do we need a postal service?
  6. bin Laden, dead at last

April 2011

  1. Hard economic lessons for news
  2. In a dog’s net
  3. When I was the ghoulish gawker
  4. Who’s afraid of Arianna Huffington?

March 2011

  1. Lecturing newspaper executives
  2. Tweeters: I want a witness tag
  3. NPR’s inevitable conflict
  4. One identity or more?
  5. Exploiting Charlie

February 2011

  1. Public Parts subtitle help
  2. The distraction trope
  3. The privacy industry: Scare and sell
  4. Clinton and the freedom to connect
  5. It’s not all about content and work
  6. Public Parts: atomize & reform
  7. Gutenberg of Arabia
  8. AriannaOL
  9. Small
  10. Mubarak’s fortune equals…
  11. Daily economics

January 2011

  1. Cable companies: Add Al Jazeera English *now*
  2. Support for the disconnected of Egypt
  3. The disruptors arrive at Davos
  4. Davos: Too little content
  5. Cancer, the sequel
  6. What did Google do?
  7. The progression of the public
  8. Back to the knife
  9. The NJ News Co-op

2010 153

December 2010

  1. Do we hold the state to be legitimate?
  2. Bill of Rights in Cyberspace, amended
  3. A classic of curmudgeonliness
  4. Me & media on Wikileaks
  5. Just saying
  6. Wikileaks: Power shifts from secrecy to transparency
  7. CUNY’s Entrepreneurial Journalism program

November 2010

  1. Lock up the kids, here comes the EU
  2. What should Google do?
  3. Entrepreneurial Journalism curriculum at CUNY
  4. Who says our way is the right way?
  5. The kids are all right
  6. Time to stop hiding
  7. Germany, what have you done?
  8. Why I was rooting for Cablevision: Free Glee!

October 2010

  1. To rally, perchance to dream
  2. Big Brother’s Big Brother
  3. A taxonomy of transparency
  4. Books as makers of publics
  5. NPR blames us for its problems: Insane
  6. NPR: Love ya, but you’re wrong
  7. Whither the Times magazine?
  8. New molecules
  9. Journalism’s leaky condom
  10. The Rutgers tragedy and privacy and technology

September 2010

  1. The persecution of Hoder
  2. The antisocial movie
  3. The benefits of publicness
  4. Wrong battlefield
  5. The Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism
  6. The real Facebook burglaries story
  7. Germany’s N word
  8. Oh, those Germans
  9. Content I will pay for: farts
  10. Regulating sex and speech
  11. The birth of TBD?
  12. Press as Facebook & Foursquare

August 2010

  1. Want to join my entrepreneurial journalism class?
  2. Wiki life
  3. Publicness at SXSW
  4. The German paradox, continued
  5. Transparent inventory & the rebirth/death of retail
  6. Internet, schminternet
  7. Bad things could happen
  8. Welcome, TBD.com
  9. The price of privacy
  10. Evil
  11. Whither magazines?
  12. Privacy paranoia dramatized

July 2010

  1. Cookie Madness!
  2. Crowdsource government work
  3. Value-added journalism
  4. What if there are no secrets?
  5. Disliking the public
  6. Advertising is next
  7. Privacy wingnuts
  8. Don’t fragment books (or other content)
  9. Google takes the FTC to school
  10. It’s still about friends
  11. Errata=beta=collaboration
  12. No American BBC
  13. The German privacy paradox, continued
  14. The First Amendment wins one
  15. What phone(s) should I buy? Or not?
  16. The Quark of programming?
  17. Will video become intimate?
  18. Publicness bibliography
  19. Independence day for newspapers
  20. Hyper times

June 2010

  1. There is no hot news. All news is hot news.
  2. The importance of provenance
  3. The myth of the opinionless man*
  4. This is social news
  5. Oversharing on oversharing
  6. On the media
  7. AT&T’s cynical act

May 2010

  1. FTC protects journalism’s past
  2. Google finally reveals AdSense cut: 68% on content
  3. Wwzd
  4. Next for media
  5. Public Parts
  6. Human in the throne?
  7. Google’s German screw-up
  8. Future of news
  9. Editing your customers
  10. If Facebook were smart…
  11. Finally, good news for Google
  12. Confusing *a* public with *the* public

April 2010

  1. USAA is a social fool
  2. Facebook’s identity opportunity – or somebody’s
  3. @sternshow: digital farts
  4. @sternshow: penises
  5. Two dinosaurs fighting over a dodo bird
  6. Murdoch: The Dirty Dumper
  7. Bizarro identity
  8. Privacy, publicness & penises
  9. After comments
  10. This is bullshit: My TEDxNYED talk
  11. From a cloud to the cloud: How ash kills airmail
  12. The cloud crisis
  13. Ashes and zen: My volcanic story
  14. News(paper) in the cloud
  15. Reboxing
  16. What is content, then?
  17. Bill of Rights in Cyberspace, amended
  18. Studying the web
  19. iPad danger: app v. web, consumer v. creator
  20. Mobile=local
  21. The hunt for the elusive influencer

March 2010

  1. Serendipity is unexpected relevance
  2. Guardian column: Google is our ambassador
  3. A Bill of Rights in Cyberspace
  4. Rupert’s pathetic pay wall
  5. Bill of Rights
  6. Post-postal
  7. The problem with comments isn’t them
  8. The money graph
  9. TEDxNYed: This is bullshit
  10. Where the TV fight goes
  11. Get your PSA checked, men
  12. Buffett on “terrible journalism”

February 2010

  1. Operational transparency
  2. News(paper)
  3. Marketing’s next
  4. Demand Media’s advisors
  5. Italy endangers the web
  6. Media’s evolving spheres of discovery
  7. Paid Content on paid content
  8. OD on me
  9. Helping news be news
  10. Next to the gallows: Newspaper coupons
  11. Buzz: A beta too soon
  12. The German privacy paradox
  13. They’re b-a-a-a-ck
  14. Google’s Buzz(machine)
  15. What Toyota should do
  16. Stop selling scarcity
  17. NewBizNews: What ad sales people hear
  18. The Flip dance
  19. The disrupted of Davos

January 2010

  1. Google news
  2. The danger of the wall
  3. Rusbridger v. walls
  4. The right to link
  5. Entrepreneurial journalism on the air
  6. The cockeyed economics of metering reading
  7. The rise of the interest-state
  8. What Google should do
  9. John Paton on newspapers’ future
  10. The state of the art of news
  11. Teaching entrepreneurial journalism
  12. The death of a curious mind
  13. Surrendering advertising … killing bundling

2009 412

December 2009

  1. The annotated world
  2. Page & Brin: Icons of the decade
  3. Bankruptcy squandered
  4. Signs of hope
  5. Google’s synchronicity
  6. Google goes local
  7. Small c update: <0.05
  8. Content farms v. curating farmers
  9. The entrepreneurial journalism class report
  10. Is journalism storytelling?
  11. MediaTalk USA
  12. Investing in local
  13. The near future
  14. Get off the lawn
  15. Compare/contrast
  16. First, do no harm, government

November 2009

  1. Media after the site
  2. The new divide: Walled v. open
  3. Rupert has balls
  4. Worthless readers
  5. Corporate punctuation finds its home
  6. Murdoch madness
  7. Murdoch madness
  8. The half-life of news
  9. New Business Models for News talk
  10. Newspapers want enemies, not friends
  11. Gained something in the translation
  12. Podcast madness
  13. The opportunity of bankruptcy
  14. ’nuff said
  15. Nose, face, cut, spite: Blocking Google
  16. WWGD? – The videos (7)
  17. WWGD? – The videos (6)
  18. My advice to German media
  19. WWGD? – The videos (5)
  20. The balance shifts
  21. WWGD? – The videos (4)
  22. The future of business is in ecosystems
  23. WWGD – The videos (3)
  24. WWGD – The videos (2)
  25. WWGD? – The videos
  26. Gadget of the Month Club
  27. Tough love for media
  28. The temporary web
  29. Podcast mania
  30. The future of news is entrepreneurial
  31. Why I’m voting for Chris Daggett

October 2009

  1. Editor as star
  2. Howard Stern 3.0: The future of entertainment
  3. Small c: Stats and odds
  4. Giving up on the news business
  5. The Gapper gap
  6. New Jersey’s Jesse Ventura
  7. Hyperlocal Boston
  8. Small c: The penis post
  9. The collaboration economy
  10. Local blog and business models event at CUNY
  11. Jersey’s Cinderella story
  12. News’ Forbidden City
  13. Plug? Ad? Opinion? Life?
  14. Media Talk USA talks TV
  15. Thank you, Margaret Atwood
  16. On All Things Considered
  17. FTC regulates our speech
  18. Gourmet, 86ed
  19. The open EU
  20. The model of the new media model
  21. Journalism as capitalism: Now that’s God’s work

September 2009

  1. Small c: The lab report
  2. Googley philanthropy
  3. The X Prizes for news (and media)
  4. Sidewiki: What Google should do
  5. Google Sidewiki: Danger
  6. Small c update: The hosectomy
  7. Tinkering with the news
  8. Did we ever pay for content?
  9. Wave and news
  10. Is journalism an industry?
  11. The small c and the big robot
  12. Small c
  13. NewBizNews in the Guardian
  14. NewBizNews: The podcast
  15. Google U
  16. Google to the rescue?
  17. A poor craftsman blames others’ tools
  18. Small c: drugstore embarrassments
  19. Google bigotry
  20. NewBizNews on the BBC
  21. Internet bigotry – again
  22. Membership has its meaning

August 2009

  1. What crisis?
  2. The real sin: not running businesses
  3. Welcome to CUNY
  4. The Stern Broadcasting Corp.
  5. Hyperdistribution
  6. Isn’t a game content, too?
  7. Three nails, one coffin
  8. NewBizNews on On the Media
  9. geoTwitter and news and more
  10. NewBizNews & Hyperpersonal news streams
  11. Aspen: live
  12. The public life
  13. This Week in Google #3
  14. The Nielsen revolt
  15. On the link economy
  16. Sustaining journalism
  17. The small c: Stern & Imus
  18. The small c and me
  19. Rupert charges
  20. The Golden Link
  21. Podcasts, podcasts, podcasts
  22. Guardian column: Micohoo vs. Gulliver
  23. The John Henry fight of man v. algorithm

July 2009

  1. WWGD? brought to life
  2. Supporting the new news ecosystem
  3. Pay = “mass delusion”: Schiller
  4. A next generation in Ann Arbor
  5. Another industry disintermediated
  6. Guardian column: Charity v. collaboration
  7. The death of snail mail & Sunday papers
  8. How (and why) to replace the AP
  9. How to handle an ass (like me)
  10. Hyperlocal sites: Please help
  11. Cablevision sucks
  12. Charity or collaboration?
  13. When news people lose sense
  14. Share your great mistakes
  15. Reinventing BusinessWeek
  16. The failure system
  17. The license to fail
  18. Tripping the future
  19. Now the FCC cares about journalism
  20. Metadata for news
  21. It ain’t over
  22. Training the crowd as journalists
  23. What Google Would Do
  24. Journalistic narcissism
  25. A map to where?
  26. Politics makes….
  27. Eric Schmidt on the new world
  28. MJ OD

June 2009

  1. Google on Google
  2. The need for – and risks of – government transparency
  3. China blinks
  4. Help us help hyperlocal news
  5. First, kill the lawyers – before they kill the news
  6. The King of Twitter
  7. Posner’s dangerous thinking
  8. Beta-think: Live work
  9. Spoiling the paid party (again)
  10. Drowning upstream
  11. State coverage as a worthy charity
  12. Oh, to be the Economist
  13. Defending public as a journalistic doctrine
  14. Adding value in the new news ecosystem
  15. The responsibility of knowledge in news
  16. New Business Models for News Project
  17. ‘No longer the province of elites’
  18. User economy v. consumer economy
  19. No thanks
  20. The API revolution
  21. Beta life
  22. Buy the Globe for the price of a Globe
  23. Distributing investigations
  24. When innovation yields efficiency
  25. Aged comedy
  26. What should Google do?
  27. David, meet Goliath
  28. Boston’s alternative future
  29. Gotta love the link
  30. ‘Loyalty through decency’
  31. Conquering the world
  32. Product v. process journalism: The myth of perfection v. beta culture
  33. Decency is the new ad
  34. Paid content
  35. Stop selling scarcity
  36. Government by the people
  37. The new Detroit isn’t Detroit
  38. No gadget savior

May 2009

  1. Google Wave and news
  2. The embeddable newspaper
  3. WWGD? DC talk
  4. Advertising as failure
  5. Link to the best
  6. Health-insurance stagnation
  7. Forcing your own paper out of business?
  8. Book talk in Jersey
  9. A paper on papers’ future
  10. Title help, please
  11. Wwyd
  12. Papers kill papers
  13. Sharing as a civic duty
  14. The new news
  15. The start of transparent government
  16. Nobody can be a newspaper
  17. The bigger MP scandal story
  18. The journalism bubble
  19. FTC to the rescue
  20. Happy birthday, Baristanet
  21. A newspaper publisher lies
  22. Eric Schmidt teaches the taught
  23. The craigslist (read: internet) witchhunt
  24. When CYA can BYA
  25. First, stop the lawyers
  26. Tick, tick, tick
  27. Who would buy a newspaper? Anybody?
  28. Missing the point
  29. Bail schmail
  30. WWGD? at Google’s DC HQ on C-SPAN-2
  31. The corruption of micropayments
  32. The death of daily
  33. The social airline
  34. Getting past newspapers’ past
  35. What (or who) is your value?
  36. Bring it on, Rupert
  37. Sick of me yet? Well, here’s more
  38. NewBizNews: Metro
  39. NewBizNews: Hyperlocal
  40. MediaTalkUSA podcast is up
  41. WWGD with newspapers?
  42. Decaffers of the world unite against Starbucks!
  43. Google: Drop the AP first
  44. I’m not the only doomsayer
  45. Rim shot
  46. Teach the past or the future?

April 2009

  1. The Twitter flight (well, train)
  2. Are magazines doomed, too?
  3. Reboot the university
  4. A confession
  5. GeoCities = MySpace = newspapers
  6. Journalists: Where do you add value?
  7. Death of the curator. Long live the curator.
  8. Googley insurance
  9. It has come to this
  10. My testimony to Sen. Kerry
  11. I have in my hands a list… of dying papers
  12. More bloggers than CEOs? Heh.
  13. And in this corner…
  14. Optimist to a fault
  15. NewBizNews: Paid content models
  16. Defining the new economy
  17. On object lesson in walls
  18. The newswire of the future
  19. Biz Air
  20. Media’s change-haters
  21. No newspaper antitrust
  22. 1. Solve journalism’s data problem. 2. Kill the AP. 3. Invest in the next market.
  23. The speech the NAA should hear
  24. The premier of Media Talk USA
  25. Arianna Huffington saves journalism
  26. Enough
  27. Kinsley nails it again
  28. Great Restructuring III: The war over change
  29. Screw us, lose us
  30. Why Google should want Twitter: Currency
  31. Interactive teaching position at CUNY
  32. Talk about an unsustainable model: print
  33. Announcing the Guardian’s Media Talk USA
  34. At last, numbers
  35. WWGD? – The PowerPoint in Mandarin
  36. Aim the gun the right way
  37. Advertising is failure
  38. Googley fashion
  39. Help your customers sell
  40. At the United States of Google Friday
  41. I need assistance
  42. You can’t take the old model with you

March 2009

  1. WWGD: The PowerPoint – checking in
  2. Speaking at Google DC Friday
  3. The AP Daily without the AP
  4. Slices of a new journalism pie
  5. All roads lead to a cul-de-sac
  6. Visiting yesterday’s innovators in Toronto
  7. Newspaper with and for breakfast
  8. Reinvention, not rescue
  9. Abooot Google
  10. Ann Arbor News to close, replaced by AnnArbor.com
  11. Flipping for the Flip
  12. Nickel-and-dimed to death
  13. The Great Restructuring II: The next ism
  14. What’s a medium?
  15. Newspaper ashes to ashes, dust to dustup
  16. What Would God Do?
  17. On Google at Google on Google
  18. Not my fault
  19. Helping others do journalism
  20. WWGD, eh?
  21. WWGD impact
  22. SXSW: Privacy (and publicness)
  23. No Jan. 20 for newspapers
  24. Booya
  25. APIs: The new distribution
  26. Journalism students’ role in the new news marketplace
  27. Inefficient print
  28. Broadcast buzzards
  29. Tax-supported content is taxpayers’ content
  30. Conspiring to death
  31. Herd
  32. The Great Restructuring
  33. Hacking education: Google U
  34. Newspaperman contemplates suicide
  35. Life after dead (trees & newspapers)
  36. Ray-dee-oh
  37. News can’t go it alone
  38. Linus, reporter
  39. Who’ll cover the state

February 2009

  1. The Times & CUNY (and others) go hyperlocal
  2. WWGD? on OtM
  3. Too little…
  4. Don’t meet. Work.
  5. Me and my Kindle
  6. Time travel: Google to Chronicle
  7. Take a class with Profs. Rosenblum and Jarvis
  8. WWGD? – The scientific solution to the world’s problems
  9. Philly’s second prize
  10. The inside-out agency
  11. Guardian column: Whack-a-mole with micropayments
  12. Google.TV
  13. Google en Espanol
  14. A portfolio instead of a diploma
  15. Google Air?
  16. Circling the wagons
  17. What Would Google Ship?
  18. What would Google say?
  19. Eating my own dogfood
  20. Hacking education
  21. Fewer journalists? No, more
  22. Craig ‘n’ me
  23. Minister of digital engagement
  24. The local ad opportunity (and the danger of losing it)
  25. TV’s next
  26. 30 Days of WWGD: What Google does to brands
  27. What’s a telegraph?
  28. 30 Days of WWGD? – Google shops
  29. Here’s what Google would do
  30. A Googley lawyer?
  31. Book as process, not product
  32. WWGD? – The PowerPoint
  33. Can journalism go with the flow?
  34. 30 Days of WWGD? – The googley restaurant
  35. WWGD? events
  36. Coming to S.F.
  37. NY Times: Please open the TimesSelect books
  38. On Brian Lehrer this morning
  39. WWGD? – Events
  40. Magic in Munich
  41. Newsosaur’s roar
  42. One more kick in the kidneys for papers: The end of legal ads
  43. Blurbs of the people
  44. No-news day
  45. Bring out the knives
  46. Deconstructing and auditing journalism
  47. 30 days of WWGD? – Googley toilet paper?
  48. The self-fulfilling story
  49. WWGD: The video book
  50. Davos09: Open Bank
  51. 30 days of WWGD? – Networks

January 2009

  1. Davos09: What’s missing in journalism?
  2. WWGD? on BusinessWeek’s cover
  3. 30 days of WWGD? – What about Apple?
  4. Davos09: The Davos vacuum
  5. 30 days of WWGD? – The link changes everything
  6. Davos09: A crisis and failure of leadership
  7. Since you asked, Gatehouse
  8. What Would Google Do? on sale today
  9. Gatehouse link stupidity reaches settlement
  10. Weinberger’s wisdom
  11. Newspaper subsidy? Try this…
  12. Papers as souvenirs
  13. Book bragging
  14. Google, the librarian
  15. Heh 4
  16. Campaign by the internet, govern by the internet
  17. If frogs had wings…
  18. Now more than ever
  19. Travelin’ man
  20. Google gets out of print
  21. Ask not…
  22. The ecosystem of news
  23. Celebration
  24. The lie of print advertising (followed by good news)
  25. Talk is not cheap
  26. Opening design
  27. Magazines don’t look so slick now
  28. WWGD? On Stern
  29. Penny for his thoughts
  30. Who suffers first in the death of the press
  31. Guardian column: The LA Times’ day arrives
  32. Do as I do, not as I say
  33. Throw a few subs on the barbie
  34. Neighbors
  35. After the industry association (and the industry)
  36. Openness
  37. Desperate measures
  38. Post-paper and after the tears
  39. A homecoming at EW
  40. Using new media for old
  41. Inventions and opportunities lost
  42. Nothing new in black & white
  43. Blurb
  44. Loose change
  45. Getting good at sharing
  46. I tweet, therefore I tweet
  47. The quality of friendship
  48. Publicness
  49. Identity and anonymity
  50. Bad news, good news
  51. Innovate
  52. Balls
  53. Teaching journalists
  54. Newsosaur’s report
  55. Protecting student journalists

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