Author Archives: Michael Becker

Handling “unpublishing” requests

By Michael Becker | Published: July 20, 2010
Poynter has an inter­est­ing arti­cle today about how news­pa­pers han­dle “unpub­lish­ing” requests. Kathy English, the pub­lic edi­tor of the Toronto Star, sur­veyed 110 news orga­ni­za­tions to find out how they deal with such requests. A major­ity of news orga­ni­za­tions, 78.2 per­cent, said they would remove con­tent given a good enough reason. Almost all the papers, [...]
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Montreal Gazette to go Web-only on Sundays

By Michael Becker | Published: July 14, 2010
On Aug. 8, the Montreal Gazette will stop publishing its Sunday edition and go Web-only for a day, publisher Alan Allnutt said in a statement on the paper's website.
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In which a choice is made

By Michael Becker | Published: July 13, 2010
This is, perhaps, the best illustration I have seen so far of what Clay Shirky's Cognitive Surplus is about -- at least the best illustration in comic strip form.
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Cognitive Surplus and The Shallows

By Michael Becker | Published: July 13, 2010
I am cur­rently read­ing Cognitive Surplus by Clay Shirky. I’m about a third of the way through it, and I hope to post a few thoughts here when I have time to set them in electrons. I also bought The Shallows by Nicholas Carr, which I will read imme­di­ately after Shirky’s book. I imag­ine that [...]
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iPad mania continues

By Michael Becker | Published: June 21, 2010
My brief and wholly shallow review after having an iPad for the better part of a month. Spoiler alert: I like it. A lot.
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