Navel-gazing if you’re a computer or know one. Boring but included for sense of completion.
Lots of print publications remain confused on how to integrate the Internet most effectively. Even after a good decade of fantastic-yet-narrowing options, good ideas seem elusive. Then, there’s Gordo: I think a lot of traditional newspaper publishers say, ‘Wouldn’t it be great if one day we make as much money on our Web sites as […]
No hounding of the buskervilles. We have a word for it: busking. It’s the practice of a musician (maybe a duet or trio) performing on a street corner, with a hat or open instrument case right there, for tips. Towns trying to encourage tourism often encourage busking, until shopkeepers get annoyed. Above my standup desk […]
A new ethical quandary in the news media. Los Angeles Times columnist Michael Hiltzik used fake names to publish comments on his blog and on those of others. Some of his creations conversed with one another. The LAT blog was suspended; the dude apparently still has his print outlet. Mea culpa. When Brick got its […]
What’s so wrong with anachronisms? Newspapers only feel archaic to me when I explain to someone how the papers gets out even in the worst ice storms, such as we had earlier this month. It’s a litany I know well: Lines about deadlines and preventing bottlenecks and logjams (ugh) that can happen at any link […]
This should start things off. Brick began in December 2003, part of
Excuse 7.5 Thursday, Jan. 26, 2006. Below I fibbed. I’m not procrastinating. I’m changing my Web host to one that for the same monthly fee as the current one also has doodads that will allow me a fully functioning blog. I didn’t want the near-former contractor to know until some of the paperwork was signed. […]