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Should Reporters Bother to Cover the Republican National Convention?
Why the Republican National Convention is a waste of money for news orgs. I challenge every journalist in Tampa for the Republican convention — every one of the 15-16,000 of y... ...read more
New York’s Dwindling News Coverage
Is New York Going to Have Enough News Coverage? I’m getting worried about New York becoming undercovered. Yes, the city is lucky to have three daily newspapers but… * The New Y... ...read moreWhat’s So Scary About Google Glasses?
Google Goggles — Yet Another Excuse for a Media Freakout I got a call today from ABC.com’s Joanna Stern about Google’s Glasses. She’s very nice. But I had a fit when sh... ...read moreThe Case for Tweeting Your Cancer Diagnosis
Watching the remarkable Xeni Jardin tweet her mammogram and cancer diagnosis, then blog eloquently about it, then crowdsource opening up her own MRI data makes me ask: Why are w... ...read moreWhy Occupy Wall Street Needs Twitter
“#OccupyWallStreet Establishes us, the public, as an entity to be reckoned with.” It is time for Twitter and its citizens to take back #OccupyWallStreet. I say tha... ...read moreMy Long Wait for Verizon
Why Verizon Needs to Be More Open Dear Verizon, I have a simple, helpful suggestion for you: Put your technician assignments online for customers to see so we can judge when ... ...read more
How Apple and Google are Different — And Alike
Is Apple really the ultimate unGoogle? Here is a snippet from What Would Google Do? about Apple as the grand exception to every rule I put forth there: How does Apple do it? H... ...read more
Occupy Wall Street and the Hashtag Revolt
Why Occupy Wall Street Cannot Be Run as an Institution. #OccupyWallStreet has been drawing complaints that it doesn’t have a demand and a goal. But I say that is precisely its... ...read moreWhat Would Google Do? — In paperback
“What Would Google Do?” is Now Available in Paperback After almost three years, What Would Google Do? is out in paperback. Oh, no, now I have two things to hawk. It... ...read moreHow 9/11 Made Me Who I Am – And How It Didn’t
To ask how 9/11 changed me is to assume that I could imagine life without that day. 9/11 became a line in my definition of myself, alongside father, husband, journalist, teacher... ...read moreFollow Us
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