Almost every day I come across an employment ad for a digital marketing or social media-related position clearly written by someone who has no idea what they’re talking about. A recent ad posted to Mashable by the Chicago office of a national...
Popular local “Digg”-style headline news site Windy Citizen is taking the discussion to Facebook this month. Its new Essential Chicago Facebook page is aimed at creating a forum for spillover conversations about Chicago events, attractions, lore, and...
Last week, the EPA added Brooklyn, New York’s long-polluted Gowanus Canal to the national Superfund site list. The decision was made in response to a request from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation–but against the wishes of NYC...
(Welcome to readers joining me from PoynterOnline’s Romenesko, Instapundit, the Windy Citizen, Gapers Block, Chicagoist, the Chicago Reader’s Michael Miner and Whet Moser, and various Twitter feeds including that of Jay Rosen. And thank you for making...
Today, I’m pleased to announce that the contents of my former ChicagoNow online-media blog, Chicagosphere, now appear in their entirety here on Chicago Carless. Owing to recent changes at the Chicago Tribune blog network, I decided to cease producing...