Slate wants to know how they should fix their message boards

Hyperlocal doesn’t mean being obsessive about every breath your city council takes

“What I want from my local newspaper”

Apple’s sustainable competitive advantage is their deep trust in the inherent value of their products and the experiences they provide. Almost no one has that these days.

—David Weiss, Confidence vs. Protectionism [via]

Fake Steve nails the Kathy Sierra/Scoble/code of ethics inanity

“What you need is a cluestick and you should be beating yourselves with it.”

Why Journalism Matters

‘What happens when you have thousands of people wielding the power of the press without any shared principles or standards? You get the Kathy Sierra mess.“

Tim O’Reilly calls for a blogger’s code of conduct

This will go over well…

Real estate magnate Sam Zell is buying the Tribune

$8.2B, selling the Cubbies

MSNBC Jockeys for attention online

WSJ profile of the MSNBC.com ad campaign

Aaron Swartz has some pretty cogent thoughts on how microcontent (blogs, twitter) is dumbing us down

“But technology never solves things by itself. At bottom, it requires people to sit down and build tools that solve them. Which, as long as programmers are all competing to create the world’s most popular timewaster, it doesn’t seem like anyone is going t

Subtle