Entries Tagged as 'hubris'
Bloggers v. Print Media, round 809832
It’s been a tough week for print media… the bloggers have been ganging up on them again. First I stumbled across this TechCrunch piece - If “Real Journalism†Fails As A Business, Should Government Step In? It actually was an interesting read - it talked about whether the tough times print media is having now [...]
Bloggers v. The New York Times
Huh, so long ago (in 2002) David Winer made a bet with the New York Times that 5 years hence blogs would rank higher the the times on google searches for the 5 top news stories of 2007. Well it’s 2007 and someone looked into that.
It turns out that Winer was right (blogs won 3 [...]
Developer Hubris
You know, I complain about a lot of people’s hubris. Overzealous bloggers and Web2.0 talking heads tend to get the brunt of that fixation. I wrote that piece about how non-technical people, in general, tend to trust what a technical person tells them more than they would someone telling them something they didn’t know in [...]
On the Federated Media/Microsoft incident
Well, the intertubes are abuzzing this morning about this incident involving Microsoft and Om Malik in particular. The problem being the FM has provided Microsofts ad campaign with some small blog posts by their star bloggers for Microsoft’s People Ready campaign. Check out Valleywag’s initial report and the ensuing hubbub.
Normally, I probably wouldn’t post much [...]
On the eternally approaching death of print media
So Tim O’Reilly notes that the San Francisco Chronicle is in trouble and this is another launching point for bloggers everywhere to promote the death of stodgy old media and the rise of miraculous new online media.
Let’s look at this one by Dave Winer. He’s got the solution to print media’s problems, he’s told you [...]
On the reaction to USA Today’s new social features
Here’s something that’s been bothering me. USA Today, relatively recently, relaunched their website with a new design and some interesting community features, notably comments and ratings. Reception of this was decidedly mixed. Some of the complaints are about the design and while I don’t really love it, I don’t particularly hate it either, it’s kind [...]
