The New Alt Media and the Future of Publishing

You might have noticed, it's not a super fun time to be in the publishing industry, especially if you're trying to do journalism. The years-long drumbeat of bad...

Stop Publishing Web Pages

Most users on the web spend most of their time in apps. The most popular of those apps, like Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Tumblr and others, are primarily focused...

Reading is Fundamental

A few months ago, I wrote about fat pages , the unbearable burden of clutter that often makes reading on the web so much less pleasant than it ought to be. It...

It's Always August

There are lots of different corners of the web, most of which have the good graces to be supportive and interesting and to act like, well, a community . People...

Best Day Ever: Chris Anderson

I nominate Chris Anderson for best day ever. A hit book on its first day out ( my review got a nice nod ), a featured blog on TypePad (and you get a copy of the...

Accountability and Culture in a Loosely Coupled World

Rebecca talks about finding offensive content on a Technorati tag aggregation page. Besides the usual tension between free speech and community standards (to...

Best of Best Of

The Village Voice's Best of New York 2004 is up, and it seems like the best one in years. People who haven't worked in the publishing industry (or haven't...

another benefit of open content licenses

Another benefit you accrue by publishing your creations with more open licenses like the ones at Creative Commons is that when you get unanticipated surges in...

Introducing Magazine

A scant three months later than I intended, today I launch my newest project: magazine . It's an idea that I've been refining for almost a year, but I didn't...

some commendations

I thought it might be nice to take some time to commend some personal websites that I enjoy. I put categories on them for the sake of simplicity. This is just...

gizmodo launches

Nick 's finally announced Gizmodo , a geek-toy weblog written by Peter Rojas. And, yeah, Pete's getting paid to do it. I've been watching the content evolve and...

blog books

As part of a the weblog world, I realize we are the most narcissistically self-obsessed group ever. (Except for all other forms of media, at least.) But I still...