Hypercrit

Michael Becker writes about journalism, new media and digital culture in general.

Month: October, 2008

To excerpt or not to excerpt

A thought occurs to me. Is it better to excerpt your blog posts on the home page, essentially giving the reader a little teaser that he then follows to the article’s page; or do we throw the entire text of the article onto the home page and be done with it?
Maybe if I had advertisements on […]

A plethora of posts

Andrew Sullivan caught my eye after I picked up the latest, redesigned, issue of the Atlantic with his article “Why I Blog.” The article refreshed me, reminded me that blogging can be cathartic and fun and that I shouldn’t worry about writing masterpieces with each post. Writing blog posts, he argues, should be more human […]

Reading the newspaper

David Sullivan at That’s the Press, Baby put up a post today that started me thinking. Just what does it mean to read a newspaper anymore these days. Sullivan says that reading the sometimes jangled assortment of articles in your local print edition isn’t all that much different than nonlinear reading habits with online news sites.
He […]

New tools

I’m always on the lookout for new tools to help me organize the flood of varied information that flows through my inbox and brain in the course of a given day. Lacking a personal need, sometimes I will look for tools that my employer or coworkers can use to streamline the things we do every day. […]

Christian Science Monitor quitting print

The Christian Science Monitor announced Tuesday that it will no longer publish its daily print edition after April, switching instead to a Web-only format plus a new Sunday magazine.