Eight years

I started a website with a 'blog' page in early November 2000, which I remember because I missed the Ramble at Fairchild Tropical Ga...

Some updates

Not much to report here, except that I have added some new news researcher blog links to the NewsliBlog 's sidebar. And, for those of yo...

Miami makeover

I hadn't seen the new Miami Herald website until I noticed a mention at South Florida Daily Blog . Yep, the site is easier to navigate ...

New vs. old journalists and the 'mediasphere'

On the journalism front, there's a little flurry of discussion over how news organizations need to rebuild themselves, leading to this m...

Who gets the news? And a disturbing development

Joel Achenbach is watching the blogs who claim to get the news the 'mainstream media' don't: News we remembered to report . And,...

Newspapers, bloggers, and librarians

The question of journalists and blogging has been debated for years, and I've linked to lots and lots of stuff on the topic. There's...

Bloggers are watching you

It's becoming a given that if someone writes a news story that contains an error, bloggers will draw attention to it. Here's one in ...

Journalists and openness

Lots of buzz about "Off the Bus" blogger Mayhill Fowler (see previous post ), after a profile in the Los Angeles Times and a Howa...

Blogging: a true reporter's calling

Miami Herald columnist Fred Grimm, in his new blog The Grimm Truth , makes a statement about journalism and blogging that strikes true to me...

Posting the pictures

One of the things I miss most about reading newspapers online is getting to see all the pictures, in a size where you can make out detail. M...

On libraries and the news

In the upcoming issue of New York Review of Books: The Library in the New Age , by Robert Darnton. This discussion of how information is dis...

Random bites

Over the weekend, a few things have caught my eye and I wonder what they mean: At HeraldWatch , there's a rumor that the Miami Herald m...

Food blogging becomes a movie

Somehow I think I never got around to reading anything of Julie Powell 's blog, The Julie/Julia Project , which she started in August 20...

Survey for Elderbloggers. Or older bloggers.

Over at Time Goes By , Ronni Bennett has set up a survey to find out more about bloggers over 50. Says Ronni: The goal is to find out what ...