You might have noticed, it’s not a super fun time to be in the publishing industry, especially if you’re trying to do journalism. The years-long drumbeat of ba...

You've heard the call to action at the end of nearly every podcast you've ever listened to: "Listen to us on your favorite podcast app", or in the ph...

The only time someone remembered September 11, 2001 to me in the last year was when a stranger mentioned it as part of the reason he was trying to assault me...

Upworthy is barely over two years old, and it’s among the top 50 most visited sites in the United States. But its perception among the self-involved media disc...

Here's an extraordinary first-person from [@BurningNorth](https://twitter.com/BurningNorth) about seeing 3D for the first time, thanks to Nintendo: [http:/...

First, some disclaimers: I’m writing this as I sit a few feet away from Medium’s NYC team. (I even asked them for tech support while writing this!) Ev Williams...

Every single day, almost every mainstream news source in America offers live updates throughout the day on a few metrics which have almost no meaning for most...

Oh, there’s been lots of chatter on the Internet this week! Where all did our conversations show up? Well, I’ll tell you. Pegged to the release of Jessica...

I was very happy to see this morning that Fred Wilson had shared his thoughts on inclusivity , building off of my earlier post You Can’t Start the Revolution...

Oh, hello there! I didn’t see you come in. Well, as long as you’re here, let’s look at some links around the web that I’ve found to be related to what we’ve be...

The current fashion amongst alpha geeks is to reinvent many of the building blocks of the social web. Given that I’ve been obsessed with that particular inters...

Lots of nice responses to my plea to stop publishing web pages yesterday! Here’s some highlights: Dave Winer said I should credit him for a lot of the id...

Most users on the web spend most of their time in apps. The most popular of those apps, like Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Tumblr and others, are primarily focused...

Congrats to Matt Mullenweg on ten years of blogging . I say it half-jokingly every time someone I know observes the decade anniversary of their blogging, but...

If there were one lesson I’d want to impress upon people who are interested in succeeding in the technology industry, it would be, as I’ve said before, know y...

On Sunday, I interviewed Nick Denton at SXSW about Gawker Media, commenting culture on the web, and a good bit of the history of professional blogging. In ad...

Considering how much conservatives and right-wing political personalities in the United States claim to hate the liberal media, it’s remarkable how much money...

Andy Rooney died last night. I find myself crestfallen about this because I’d spent the last few years trying, off and on, to get in touch with him for the cha...

At the beginning of this year, I wrote a piece called if you didn’t blog it, it didn’t happen , about how your thoughts, ideas and conversations need a place...

When I co-founded Activate last year, one of my goals was that, as much as possible, we’d share what we learned about helping established companies with thei...

Great news for the web today, some of the smartest folks I know are doing what they do best: Making the web better. Take Paul Ford’s thoughts on “ Why Wasn...

Clive Thompson’s newest Wired piece argues that the flow of short-form messages as we see on Twitter and Facebook is encouraging longer meditations in other...

I love blogs. Nick Denton wrote over on Lifehacker about the pending redesign of Gawker’s blogs, with a lot of great insights into the leading edge of web pu...

Here are some articles that have recently gotten attention amongst media obsessives. They are all fundamentally flawed: A list of the Top 25 newspapers on...

From the list of “things I thought I’d never see”, Karl Pearson-Cater (he and I were colleagues about a decade ago) posted a great job listing at MinnPost, w...

Today, in a Wired interview about Instapaper , Marco Arment offered up: “People love information,” Arment said. “Right now in our society, we have an ob...

As ever, the best thing about blogging is the conversations it kicks off. Some nice responses to recent posts here and around the web: In a follow-up to...

There’s an odd tendency in web culture to see all features as obvious, even inevitable. While most of the artifacts of our computing experience have been inven...

In my blog here, I’m mostly a textual dude. I’ve made a few little video clips or animated .gifs over the years, but basically, I’m a writer. But today, today!...

The short version: Gourmet Live, the new iPad app that reimagines Gourmet as a sort of massively multiplayer magazine, is live. I’ve been working on this for t...

Even more fun news! Today, I’m thrilled to announce the other big project I’ve been working on: Activate . It’s a new consultancy, founded by Michael Wolf (...

I’m not a Democrat; I don’t much care about the scorekeeping of who has more seats in any given chamber of Congress. But I do think there are things that need...

Just a quick roundup of some recent conversations I’ve been having around the web: Fast Company interviewed me about applying the lessons of Web 2.0 to go...

Michael Arrington. Dave Winer. Tim O’Reilly. Jason Calacanis. Add a few names of your own. Within the navel-gazing little corner of the tech world that I inh...

People who are into journalism and newspapers and the web and the death of print have been all a-twitter over the NY Times story today about the triCityNews...

Hey, NowPublic made a list of the 50 most influential web people in New York , and I’m on it at number six. So, thanks to the folks who made the list, and I a...

I started blogging when I was 25, and it was a much smaller blogosphere back in 2000. I was able to make my mistakes in oversharing, overexposure, and unmiti...

Because my name and my big ole’ head are sitting on top of this page, it’s probably not making the self-indulgence any worse to collect a few links to some rec...

It looks like I wasn’t the only one having a Gawker reckoning ; A remarkable post revealed that both Emily Gould and Choire Sicha are leaving the site. (Tha...

I’ve been doing a good bit of speaking lately, and have some more coming up, so let me share it with you if you’re interested. I was flattered to have my...

I’ve had the chance to follow Gawker Media since before it launched, really, and so it’s been interesting to see a couple of items pop up recently about the di...

In his post this weekend , Rex Sorgatz points out that “mainstream media is hard”. It’s a truth I know firsthand — I used to work both in the music industry a...

I’ve been wanting a portable magazine reader device for ages (everyone focuses on ebooks, but my attention span is too short) so I have to point out Texterity...

From eWeek’s “Upcoming” section, which I’d praised a few weeks ago , comes this interview with Java creator James Gosling . The key quote, for me: Of Goo...

The New York Times is removing the payment barrier from its TimesSelect content. Hooray! I pundified* incorrectly about this two years ago when they laun...

I’d intended to post a correction to this NY Times story’s recounting of the history of blog book tours, but was pleased to see that my friend, and intermitt...

In 1992, Brian Springer spent over 500 hours capturing direct satellite feeds of the video clips that powered both news broadcasts and that year’s presidenti...

The gist: A lighthearted unscientific poll that was created as a PR ploy for a tech company is quickly evolving into a “real” news story, being treated as fa...

Following up on the conversation about accountability, january one discusses the dark side of blogging from the perspective of the knitting blog community....

I hate the abbreviation “MSM”. It’s almost always used by those who are lacking in perspective. We’re all either too lazy to actually differentiate between the...

One of my favorite parts of my job is getting to write posts for some of our dozens of company-run blogs. I’m particularly pleased with two that went up today:...

Another great Wall Street Journal online debate: Is ‘Web 2.0’ Another Bubble? David Hornik and Todd Dagres’ excellent back-and-forth was unfortunately oversh...

It’s almost like all I do is talk about blogging all day. Debbie Weil hosts the Corporate Blogging show on VoiceAmerica’s business channel, and the other day w...

In case it isn’t obvious enough by now, contemporary newspapers should be thinking of information presentation in the context of applications, not just as docu...

About a month ago, Fortune ‘s Jeffrey O’Brien interviewed Seagate CEO Bill Watkins , and pulled the conversation’s most memorable quote for the headline: “Le...

Well, technically, Zoltan Levay has the coolest job out of this world. Mr. Levay is the Imaging Resource Lead at the Space Telescope Science Institute ‘s O...

I don’t know exactly what the significance of this realization is to me, but I thought I’d share. The debate between Robert Scoble and Dave Winer about Micro...

There are lots of different corners of the web, most of which have the good graces to be supportive and interesting and to act like, well, a community . Peopl...

We’ve got another chance for the mainsream press to either laud or dismiss blogs, and I’m curious to see how it turns out. The thing to note is that, for these...

I nominate Chris Anderson for best day ever. A hit book on its first day out ( my review got a nice nod ), a featured blog on TypePad (and you get a co...

One of my recurrent sources of frustration with my fellow geeks is that most are just plain lousy at convincing others to try technologies. It’s only because...

Thanks to Matt for pointing out some wildly irresponsible journalism . I’m always amazed that editors go with these stories (and write these kinds of headline...

Cam Marlow ‘s at it again, not content just to give us Blogdex for free for years, but working on the MIT Weblog Survey to collect data about that blog...

Dave Morgan of Tacoda provides a detailed overview in MediaPost of how newspapers are getting trounced by online classifieds. The most dramatic change is not...

National Spelling Bee entrant Dominic Ranz Ebarle Errazo had apparently slipped in a Napoleon Dynamite reference during his brief appearance on TV, and the...

David Galbraith has wisely dissected Blogebrity , but I’m going to preemptively call the Contagious Media Showdown in favor of Crying While Eating . Cryin...

I was writing earlier about the smart presentation of information in the excerpt from Steven Johnson’s Everything Bad Is Good For You that was published la...

I find it kinda cool that today I was in the New York Times talking about the business potential of weblogs and today the New York Times became the biggest...

I wasn’t at the conference, so I can’t comment on the specifics that Jack Shafer references, but I’m finding it hard to disagree with anything that’s written i...

Tom Watson’s take on Dan Rather’s resignation seems exactly right to me. Be careful the gloating you do and the negativity you celebrate, because they’ll be...

Two’s a trend: See Matt Haughey and Nick Denton both frustrated by media coming at them for quotes on stories that seem to have predetermined agendas. I’...

So, Google’s own CEO has stated that Google is a media company , maybe it’s worth observing whether the world’s most successful Internet companies are media c...

At the weblog business conference that I’m at, Liz just said that she and Nick are frequently pitched by media companies that want permanent links on the sideb...

So Gawker is finally live. I’ve been waiting to post a link until everyone else could read it, but it’s already so much better than it has any reason to be....

Unsurprisingly, I read it on Media News within a few minutes of getting it in my inbox. Ah, technology....

Matt’s got a great example of how the public domain can be a valuable resource , and while he uses an example where it’s promoting a band, I think the bigger...

Meg makes the arugment in Blogging for Dollars that the weblog world needs professionally paid webloggers in order to advance past the labor-of-love ghetto:...

Never bad, almost always great, Salon’s Masterpiece series are masterly pieces....

As part of a the weblog world, I realize we are the most narcissistically self-obsessed group ever. (Except for all other forms of media, at least.) But I stil...

In case you’re wondering what direction I’m heading, here’s a hint . Especially this part . Hmm, I wonder if that’s related to this other stuff …?...

There are few things cooler (in my geeky, media-obsessed opinion) than getting an issue of a magazine you subscribe to, and seeing someone you know on the co...

My blog-surfing list is in tumult. Meg thinks she has nothing good to say. While I doubt that’s true, I’m glad she can step away from something that isn’t g...

Dan already blogged my feelings on one of the screenshots pictures : The isometric view form has become so common in gaming that this is a terrific way to...

Hmmmmm ....

Just another reason to like Brill’s Content is this excellent package on the Mega-Media companies . It’s terrifying to read, but an excellent example of wh...

Of course The Weather Channel is useful . But I’m discovering increasing numbers of people for whom the channel has some sort of hypnotic, addictive effect...