Media Musings

As publishing continues its quickening evolution from hand-cranking a letter press to content spreading via feeds on the Internet, that whole annoying few-minutes gap between hitting the "done" button and subscribers being notified is about to disappear, too. In a ...

Remember the good old days when you sat down with Uncle Walter and found out what was going on around the world? I'm sure you won't find it surprising that those days are mostly over. A survey by the Pew ...

The headline above probably should drop the "point" in 2.0. I have been a college student on and off for the past 20 years. I will finally graduate in May 2010. My college career began before e-mail was common, and ...

Getting news used to be simple. You watched the network half-hour while eating your TV dinner. You walked a quarter-mile to the paper tube in the morning. You picked up the phone to see if your neighbor was gossiping on ...

I spent a good many years in newspaper sports departments around the United States. One of the consistent themes is that people (not "readers," necessarily) call on the phone night and day. For any reason. But mostly about TV. When ...

I have finally stumbled across the answer to the question: Isn't Foursquare just a game for a few nerds to play? The answer ("no") came in the form of finding this Olympics city guide, brought to you by none other ...