Jan
29
Reading for the day of rest:
- Waiting for them to grow up is not a strategy. Fine Young Journalist has been looking for evidence non-younger readers will eventually turn to newspapers and isn’t finding any.
- Google’s dual view of the world. Dan Gillmor passes along a pair of links from Dave Farber: Google image searches from google.cn (China) and google.com (the rest of the world). It’s a chilling example not just of censorship but the perils of anything that impinges on the free flow of information on the ‘net.
- Not Just Another Column About Blogging. The subtitle on Jack Shafer’s latest Slate column — What newspaper history says about newspaper future — sets up a lively look at what newspapers need.
- Time to get tough: Managing anonymous reader comments. Vin Crosbie argues that if media needs to be more transparent, so do its readers and commentators.
