A study released Wednesday concludes that newspaper’s political blogs are a waste of time. I think they’re wrong. In 2006, Ball State University and the University of Nevada-Reno looked at 360 newspaper staff-produced blogs the week before the fall elections. Their key findings: • While some blogs contained frequent posts as high as 57 during [...]

Thanks to everyone for the phone calls, e-mails, messages, texts, comments, etc., after my grandmother died. I’d been thinking about starting a new blog for awhile, and this kinda prompted me to go ahead and do it. So stay here for journalismy things, or try the new blog for the icky personal things. You’ll notice [...]

European media is a step ahead. The BBC is broadcasting a TV show in Second Life. Sky News is already part of Second Life. And the Press Association used Second Life and Twitter to cover the 2007 Budget. U.S. media could (and should) be first to jump on board and create widgets, though. And then [...]

During the (very strange) budget meeting Monday, someone questioned why a story on MySpace was big news — more important, why it warranted a position on A1. I tried to explain that MySpace was the largest social networking site. Proof from Hitwise: • MySpace has 5.86 percent of the total market share. Google is No. [...]

Newspapers must create networks, not “destinations”: The kind of network I’m referring to is a web of interconnections — links between content and between people. In essence, I’m arguing that on the Web, news organizations — perhaps, all media — should focus on building themselves “into the clickstream.” The goal: make your Web site a [...]