It’s tax time – lucky I reminded you. I blogged about our procrastinating ways last year – now I’m musing on how to curb cheating. Seth Priebatsch, who calls himself chief ninja of gaming company Scvngr, gave a keynote talk I enjoyed last month at South By Southwest Interactive. Seth told us how one university [...]
Right now – this week in fact – some Canadians are busy test-marketing the New York Times’ new pay-to-read system. It won’t roll out in the U.S. of A. until next week. The ink-stained and the bean counters at The Grey Lady have apparently worked out some kind of balance between the flow of news [...]
A reporter for Sports Illustrated was recently fired for cheering in the press box. This was the incident Jay Rosen used to open his talk at South By Southwest Interactive entitled Bloggers vs. Journalists. It was his way of illustrating that there’s an ethics code among journalists – one that calls for distance and a [...]