April 16, 2009 | 17:54
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News
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A quick update on the travels and the blogging:
I returned to the States earlier this week, after about three months abroad. I have lots of notes and ideas, and now I just have to find the focus to turn them into blog posts. Wish me luck. :-)
What's next? I'll be ...
March 26, 2009 | 3:24
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News
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You know that 1999 NYT story that's been floating around on Twitter about the passage of the bill to loosen U.S. banking regulations by repealing the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933? It includes some prescient warnings like this one from Sen. Byron Dorgan:
"I think we will look back in 10 years' ...
March 19, 2009 | 2:14
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Idea file
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That's how BeeBCamp, a BarCamp-style unconference held at the BBC last month, was described on the organization's public blog. My OJR piece on BeeBCamp and "innovation events" in general is up. If your organization has held such an event, please share your experience.
February 25, 2009 | 12:33
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Events,
Places
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I attended Andrew Currah's interesting talk on business models for news today at Oxford's Green Templeton College. Currah has just released a report for the Reuters Institute called "What's Happening to Our News." Lots of good insights on the scary economic trends in the U.K. news media. Real problems urgently ...
February 23, 2009 | 16:36
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Places
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When I arrived in the U.K., I expected the state of the newspaper industry here to be somewhat less dire than in the U.S. After all, Internet penetration here is still somewhat lower than back home, I figured, so maybe print audiences (and advertisers) haven't dried up as quickly.
This list ...
