The best piece I’ve seen on the dismal state of hyper-local, via my friend and Community Impact Newspapers honcho John Garrett.  A sample: Such are the unholy collisions between “local news” and computerized news gathering. The problem for the...

Well, that didn’t last long.  Destination web sites taking it right in the kisser.  These pictures say several thousand words.

Whodda thunk that one of President Obama’s great contributions during his first year would be to tamp down the spikes of Presidential rhetoric.  Certainly not I. Sayeth Hendrick Hertzberg in The New Yorker, about the President’s speech at West Point...

Dear Mayor White- I have observed with real admiration your Senate campaign team’s facility with all things web.  It’s really quite impressive, as is the breadth of your early fundraising numbers.  Particularly, 1980 new contributors in Q3 bespeaks...

The NYT continues to do as much as anyone with data-driven stories.  Today on A1 was a feature about the rise and concomitant de-stigmatization of food stamp usage across the country.   But the interactive map on the NYT web site tells the stories...