Comments on: Newspapers: keep your geeks

By: Printed Matters » Ed Roussel almost right

Printed Matters » Ed Roussel almost right — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:09:13 +0000

[...] And you definitely don’t want to source it all to some centralized corporate IT assembly, as I whined over here. [...]

By: Printed Matters

Printed Matters — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:42:57 +0000

[...] Yeah! The editorial types like to frig with style, and design, and making the articles perfect just like they do in the print papers. But it doesn’t matter if nobody sees the damned articles because the site has not been optimized for search engines, or it’s difficult to find related articles on the site, or the site’s internal search engine doesn’t work. So I think we need more technical people that don’t have to go sit in management meetings in order to tinker and innovate. [...]

By: Printed Matters » News 2008 in a nutshell

Printed Matters » News 2008 in a nutshell — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:54:37 +0000

[...] Jarvis and I have our differences, but there’s no questioning the fact that he’s got a handle on the state of the news [...]

By: Printed Matters » It’s about time

Printed Matters » It’s about time — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:21:37 +0000

[...] This is why I’ve said before, newspapers should focus on their core competencies. And video isn’t one of them. Leverage what you do. Jeff Jarvis has said it too (although I disagree with his particulars). [...]