The story behind my first ever piece for the Wall Street Journal, which appears today, and some takeaways from the experience.
Digital media business news recap for week of May 15
The week’s highlights from the freelance world and digital media business: Standing up for writers – Today is the 2nd Annual Writers Worth Day. Lori Widmer, a Valley Forge, Pa., writer, dreamed up the campaign to help writers and other freelancers do a better job negotiating fees and standing up themselves. I’m down with that. […]
Google's Chrome Web browser takes on IE and Firefox
The tech world is buzzing about Chrome, the Web browser Google introduced this week. Why should writers care? For one thing, Google claims that Chrome does a better job than existing browsers like Internet Explorer or Firefox when it comes to searching for multimedia content online. But the bigger deal might be that Chrome will […]
What Me Worry? Magazine Startups Venture into Uncertain Economy
With talk of a recession and a generally dismal outlook for print media, is it a good time to launch a magazine? Apparently so. At least three major U.S. publishers are working on titles set to debut in 2008 or 2009: the Wall Street Journal, Mansueto Ventures LLC, publisher of Inc. and Fast Company, and […]
Go Web, Young Man
Newspapers see the future, and it’s digital. The latest evidence: earlier this week the New York Times Co. and three other investors sank $29.5 million into Automattic, the company that makes WordPress blogging software runs the WordPress.com free blogging Website. (Disclaimer: I use WordPress.com to create and host this blog.) According to a news report, […]