Words from another yard

Links and comment from Scott Rosenberg
February 07, 2012 12:14PM
“Excellent news, Kerry. Great to hear about the traffic growth. And exciting to thing Open Salon will get some refreshing.”
About: Hit record
June 22, 2011 10:26AM
“Alan -- come on over to http://mediabugs.org and file an error report (or multiple reports as needed). We will either get the error fixed or, failing t…”
About: Time to bake smart correction tools into news platforms
May 16, 2011 01:40PM
“Thanks for all the great responses. Kent, to answer your point about archives: We had robots.txt on Table Talk because it seemed like what most of the…”
About: Salon’s TableTalk shutdown: What we can learn from the story of a pioneering online community
February 07, 2011 07:39PM
“Nick, no question Salon -- and everyone -- could learn a lot from HuffPo. By calling them "troubled," I meant that -- despite huge success in…”
About: Huffington is to AOL as AOL was to Time Warner
November 18, 2010 10:36AM
“No question Salon has lost lots of money over the years. The biggest losses were back during the dotcom bubble and bust. Since then you can track the u…”
About: Is Daily Beast really losing $10 million a year?
November 15, 2010 10:23PM
“Yeah, there are similarities. I think there are two big differences: (1) Huffington started out with no original content that was paid for; i.e., there…”
About: Is Daily Beast really losing $10 million a year?
November 12, 2010 07:08PM
“Thanks, Greg!”
About: WSJ’s Obama-shakeup overreach: Why I think the paper’s wrong, and why it matters
October 28, 2010 11:47PM
“Yeah -- I think the winner-takes-all phenomenon occurs much more commonly online with the platform-builders. Google, for instance. But the story there…”
About: What if the future of media is no “dominant players” at all?
August 26, 2010 10:55AM
“Yes I am here, not around the clock. Not sure what the "R" is all about. Unsuitable for unaccompanied minors? Help me out!”
About: Why trust Facebook with the future’s past?
July 22, 2010 07:01PM
“Gordon: You miss the critical difference between the two controversies you're equating. A liberal journalist on Journolist sent out a (dumb) email sugge…”
About: Breitbart fiddles while the MSM refuses to burn him
July 22, 2010 03:07PM
“Sorry, Blackflon, I don't get the "scandal" part of Journolist. You mean a bunch of self-identified liberal/progressive journalist s were sayi…”
About: Breitbart fiddles while the MSM refuses to burn him
July 21, 2010 11:50AM
“Hey, Ben -- thanks. To envision this idea, just take a look at any page on Wikipedia and click on the "View History" tab. You basically store…”
About: Politico, Slate, and story versioning — or: the only Web constant is change
June 01, 2010 12:46PM
“Thanks for this, Juliet. I don't think I'm saying that the survival of blogs requires the destruction of "high quality media"... I think it's…”
About: “Say Everything” in paperback, and new postscript
May 04, 2010 09:49AM
“Rob, that's a wonderful analogy, very apt, and even -- I hope -- one that journalists might embrace, since it's kind of flattering (journalism equivale…”
About: No more bouncers at the journalism club door
May 04, 2010 09:22AM
“Ina -- anonymity is often destructive but occasionally of social value (protection for whistleblowing, for instance). Surely readers are able to judge…”
About: No more bouncers at the journalism club door
May 04, 2010 01:48AM
“Jeremiah: thanks for the comments. I don't doubt I was painting with an overly broad brush with the line you cite. Here's where I was coming from: the…”
About: No more bouncers at the journalism club door
March 26, 2010 04:46PM
“Thanks for the comment, Juliet. I should say that I'm not "a social networking guy"; if I'm anything I might be a "blogging guy" or…”
About: For the media biz, iPad 2010 = CDROM 1994
September 02, 2009 02:03PM
“I think I've avoided, somehow, both the fawning and the name-calling. Don't know how or why. I've never asked friends to post Amazon reviews. Reading…”
About: Amazon reviews: an author’s view
August 19, 2009 12:16AM
“Lainey, in my view OSers are bloggers, sure. (Unless a particular one feels he/she dislikes the label!) I normally qualify that "lots of links&quo…”
About: Time to retire the term “blogger”?
August 18, 2009 06:11PM
“A "jourggler"! I like it! This particular conversation has been happening since the dawn of blogging. I once thought it would vanish as blogg…”
About: Time to retire the term “blogger”?
August 03, 2009 12:57PM
“Thanks, Stellaa. The embed code doesn't seem to work properly here in Open (it's fine on my Wordpress blog...).”
About: Saying everything on KQED Forum
July 30, 2009 01:54AM
“Thanks, Silkstone. I share that preference for basic spelling and grammar as at least one marker for trust, though it's more of a starting-point filter…”
About: Hunches — in combat, and on the Web’s wilds
July 28, 2009 03:04PM
“"media" has always been a miserable word, even if you ignore the singular/plural headaches. Today, the same word means "news distributors…”
About: The MSM is dead! (Wait, am I MSM?)
July 23, 2009 06:28PM
“Thanks for doing this, Kerry! And thanks for all the good wishes. and such. Next time I skype for video: I'm takin' off the glasses! And: definitely not…”
About: Open Chat: How successful is Open Salon?
July 22, 2009 12:09AM
“Renee, Cindy, the difference between your two comments ("fun" vs "pass news along") is one of the things that's fascinating about T…”
About: Where’s Twitter’s past, and what’s it’s future?
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