Facebooking

Posting is slow again as I've been undergoing some medical treatments that slow me down. But over the last couple days I've succumbe...

Books...and social networks

When I was a kid, maybe 12 or so, I was enjoying reading so much I wanted to keep track of my books. So I started a file card system. It las...

A roundup, of sorts

After a slow week, a couple interesting new research blogs: Paper Trail Blog from Center for Public Integrity, links to useful and interest...

Finding a new kind of journalism

Is there a place for 'former' journalists in this new world? You bet there is. Here's a wonderful example, from American Journal...

Following up

Great discussion by Jay Rosen on the Jessica DaSilva flap (yesterday's post) at Pressthink: Big Daddy Newspaper Has Gone and Left Journa...

Cell phone directory, news research and interpreting the news, and politics

Some more interesting thoughts on news research and other topics... In the Wall Street Journal by Jason Fry, The Case of the Missing White P...

More news tweets than you think

Via Mark Schaver , a link to a posting at GraphicDesignr that lists the number of Twitter tweets coming from newspapers around the country. ...

New ways to get the news

I'm intrigued with today's story about the Bill Clinton rant against the author of the negative Vanity Fair story about him, record...

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...

Times Machine

Over the last few years, several newspapers have made the expensive investment of scanning their microfilm to make stories available online ...

Newspapers need databases: even in sports

Derek Willis looked at the South Florida coverage of the Miami Dolphins draft, and discovered databases on the Sun Sentinel's and Palm ...

U.S. Congress Twitters

Here's Twitter from the Senate Floor ; Twitter from the House Floor .