Archive for November 21st, 2007

Does calling newspapers ‘newspapers’ make me sound like a stupid old fool? »

I still call newspapers “newspapers.” I probably always will, even long after those that survive become almost fully digital operations with perhaps a token print newsletter for the elite and the elderly. Will this prevent me from ever attaining legitimate new media douche bag status? Should I try to kick the habit?
For example, I wrote [...]

links for 2007-11-21 »

Tracking the truth on foreclosures - OCRegister.com
I find RealtyTrac’s foreclosure stats highly, highly problematic. Often, just as meaningless as the median sale prices delivered by Realtor associations each month, and reported breathlessly during the real estate run-up. Via Talking Biz News.
(tags: real-estate foreclosure realtytrac)

The slow crawl of journalism education - Teaching Online Journalism
“There’s more to [...]