The Media Drop

Could the vaunted Red Sox leave their hallowed radio home of WEEI? Seems like it’s definitely a possibility - though not at all a guarantee - according to the Boston Globe’s Sasha Talcott.
At first this might not seem like a big issue, but after seeing New York’s Knicks and Rangers move from their home on […]

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Well, big step for me tonight - subscribed to the online version of the Wall Street Journal. Been finding the content - beyond the free stuff - really helpful of late. So while linking to it isn’t going to be helpful for everyone, I’ll probably be doing it here and there when it’s necessary. You […]

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This morning, Dan Gillmor published an open letter to the community of Bayosphere users, along with the rest of us who are interested (and part of) the citizen journalism community. It’s a must-read, IMHO, and can shed some light on the ins and outs of putting together a successful community of newsgatherers, interested readers, and […]

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Jeff Jarvis has a blog post up about changes to the newspaper, and brings up the topic of coupons disappearing from the papers, and how that affected a pub he worked at a few years back. I’m not going to delve too much into the argument, but I will say, flat out, that I purchase […]

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In Sunday’s San Diego Union-Tribune, staff writer Frank Green shares the story of Finest City Broadcasting and its president, Mike Glickenhaus, and how this independent (read: not CBS Radio or Clear Channel) network of stations has grown to become a player in that portion of the country.

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Well, one of the things I’m going to have to admit comes with getting a bit of success out of blogging (and having a lot of projects to work on) is that you’re pulled all over the place, but it’s important not to alienate what really got you where you are - which for me, […]

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Well, at least I’m not the only one who thought it was amusing that Google’s Gmail change to add a “delete” button to the menu was a little bit late. Frankly, I’m so used to using the drop down to delete now after so long that it’s screwing up my speed of use.
My suggestion? Put […]

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ESPN.com has changed its look, in case you didn’t notice. David Singer noticed, and wrote up a pretty solid view of the changes - which he likes for the most part - but that doesn’t mean he thinks the site is necessarily better. I’m definitely with him on the auto-playing video ads. As great as […]

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Just wanted to congratulate Susan Mernit on her new gig at Yahoo!, where she’ll be working on the company’s Personals brand. Excellent stuff, looking forward to seeing what Yahoo! Personals does in the near term, Susan!

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As of Wednesday, January 18, readers of the Chicago Tribune will no longer see stock tables in the pages of the newspaper, Bloomberg News reports this afternoon.
As you would probably guess, the Internet has a lot to do with this. Expect this to be one of the first dominos of a few to do […]

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