Weathering the storm: NYC’s hyperlocal winners and losers
There are two ways of approaching a story like Sandy: Go whole hog or stay home. With all the talk about hyperlocal imperatives, the most local of New York’s traditional…
Is Twitter a business? You betcha! says CEO Dick Costolo
Twitter , in an interview at D9 (video posted below): It took three years to send the first billion tweets, and we now send a billion tweets every six days.” So,…
SuperBowl commercials: Best [Chrysler's hymn to Detroit] and Worst [Groupon's tasteless humor]
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My personal favorite: American industry, American workers, and the power of a great American city, by Chrysler— Groupon easily wins for the worst ad. Unless you agree that saving $15 at…
My son is gay
This is not what you’d expect. Whether or not the statement applies to the boy pictured here is, in fact, irrelevant. He’s just 5 years old, for heaven’s sake! What…
I’m back from BlogWorld NewMedia Expo
This is what it’s all about: … As we celebrate mediocrity, all the boys upstairs want to see, how much you’ll pay for what you used to get for free…
‘Curse of Joe Biden’ … or editors stuck in their sophomore year
Vice President Biden’s barely audible use of the “F” word was newsworthy, made-for-the-Internet flash. But front page play in four of New York’s five newspapers?!? New York media’s fixation with…
Subway tragedy: Everything changed in a New York minute
A woman going about her work-a-day routine dropped her gym bag onto a subway track at the start of Thursday night’s rush hour. Then she did what every New Yorker…
Out of SXSW in Texas …
Out of SXSW in Texas … David Carr’s beat by Gawker ‘All The TIme’ … This is news? http://ow.ly/1jF1J Just a quick taste from Austin. Wish I was there.…
Every merchant’s nightmare: Customers who are mad as hell, and aren’t going to take it anymore
You know what it’s like. Things aren’t clicking right, you’re not at your best, it’s a bad hair day. Shit happens. Then a customer walks in whose day is bad…
Oh my, how the mighty Times has fallen
Not long ago, the NY Times would toss local news leads in the trash; its staff was so stealthy in lifting stories from the city’s community weeklies that they’d rarely…