Why Facebook Bugsmenot and helps me heart my Westie

OK, so we screwed up.
By we I mean the people such as me who were running news Websites.
When we did it, you rightfully hated it.
What’s remarkable is that Facebook is doing it and you love it so much you can’t get enough of it.
And I think it has some tremendous — and positive — implications [...]

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Buc-ee’s

Buc-ee’s in Luling, Texas is fast becoming the Wall Drug of the 3.5-hour stretch of Interstate 10 between Houston and San Antonio.
They’ve got a couple dozen billboards along the highway, including one that says, “Eat here, get gas,” and my husband’s favorite, “Ice. Made from scratch.”
Since we drive the route often to go [...]

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I was “Rove’d,” but he didn’t leave prints

Jay Rosen has some provocative things to say today about how well Karl Rove played the press corps and how, in his opinion, members of the media aren’t writing everything they know about Rove’s wily ways.
I really, really respect Jay, but I think he’s gone coastal on us here — East Coastal. News flash: There [...]

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There’s no such thing as off-the-record for journalists

Linda Greenhouse’s snit-fit over C-SPAN’s attempt to record her appearance in Washington D.C. at a journalism educators’ conference Friday is a stunning show of arrogance and cluelessness.
(Here’s the take on it by Columbia Journalism Review, and here is this morning’s limp defense of her move by Slate.)
In an interview with the AEJMC Reporter, Greenhouse denied [...]

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Facebook, the dead tree edition and cute puppies

The other day I found something extremely cool hidden in plain view on Facebook, something that may spell more gloom for online newspaper classifieds, and which might even take a chunk out of eBay and Craigslist.
I found myself in possession of two extra puppies, thanks so some lout who dumped them in our yard [...]

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