I teach journalism at NYU, write the blog PressThink, direct NewAssignment.Net, and try to grok new media. I don't do lifecasting but mindcasting on Twitter.
About 15 posts per day
The consensus (among many I talk to) WaPost.com pulled ahead of NYTimes.com for a few years. Then the Times focused and blew everyone away.
Electronic Frontier Foundation tackles that bogus podcasting patent, and asks for your help http://www.eff.org/deeplin... The nerve some companies have!
Yeah, @javaun: the first two paragraphs are an ad, "See how even-handed, we are?" which is then contradicted by the story: http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
Read it carefully. See that "you got extremists on both ends, but the truth is in the middle..." device at the beginning? It's fake http://www.nytimes.com/2009... The story contradicts it. Read it and you'll see!
Had to explain the difference between "business models" (I did not write about those) and "sources of subsidy" (did!) http://jayrosen.tumblr.com/post...
Sounds like what Jon Stewart does to the cable news shows.
- Jim Norris
If you're a news head, this is one to download and listen to in the car or wherever http://www.onpointradio.org/2009... Jarvis & Wolff vs. Brill & Murdoch.