Monthly Archives: November 2008
Journalist Bailout Program
TypePad, one of the biggest subscription-based blogging providers, has offered free pro-level accounts to journalists and ex-journalists. I’m serious. You can check it out for yourself if you want. I already sent them an e-mail asking for an account.
I’m pretty notorious for using WordPress on all of my sites, but I can’t pass up the [...]
Posted in Digitalia, Social Networking Tagged free, journalism, Social Networking, TypePad Comments closed
New Trek trailer
I, like many people around the world, have now seen the trailer for J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek, which is scheduled to be released in May 2009. Many people are up in arms about the trailer — the whole movie, in fact. That’s because it takes us back to the Original Series era with Kirk, Spock, [...]
Small-town paper lambasted for NOT publishing news of Obama victory
Correction: The title should have read that the paper was criticized for NOT publishing news of Obama’s win.
CNN reports about the 5,000-circulation Daily Herald in Salpulpa, Okla., which did not carry news of Barack Obama’s win in its Wednesday edition.
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Some townspeople, many of them African American, picketed outside the newspaper’s offices [...]
Blogging is dead; long live blogging
The Economist put out a short article on Nov. 6, commenting on Jason Calacanis’ retirement from blogging. Calacanis founded Weblogs Inc., and the Economist compares his retirement from blogging to Michael Jordan leaving basketball. It is, in other words, a big deal.
Posted in Digitalia, Social Networking Tagged blogging, Facebook, Jason Calacanis, Social Networking, twitter Comments closed
Michael Becker has been blogging about academia, digital culture and journalism since 2005. He is the Web editor of the
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