Tag Archives: journalism

The Faster Times – AOL Hell: An AOL Content Slave Speaks Out

Highly depress­ing read, both into the writ­ing prac­ticed at AOL and what this busi­ness con­sid­ers impor­tant (just gen­er­at­ing stu­pid triv­ial trash to gen­er­ate pageviews).

June 18, 2011 – 12:39 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Communication, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Throwing Fire – LastPass Disclosure Shows Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

Even the tech­nol­ogy jour­nal­ism sites can’t get things right on occasion.

May 8, 2011 – 7:07 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Economics, Quick Posts, Security, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Nieman Journalism Lab – Baseless speculation! Frank Rich and the price of paywalls for writers

Good point to rec­og­nize this dif­fer­ence, but the point must still be made that both need to be paid, and half to find a sys­tem that enables writ­ers and pub­lish­ers to make money off the content.

April 2, 2011 – 3:04 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Communication, Economics, Technology | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

NYTimes.com – Radiation + Cable Anchor + Science = ?

Cable news no mat­ter the net­work typ­i­cally is a pile of fail when it comes to science.

March 27, 2011 – 3:02 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Quick Posts, Science | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Union of Concerned Scientists – FoxNews.com Article Uncritically Passes on Climate Misinformation

Nice take down UCS.

February 4, 2011 – 1:50 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Politics, Quick Posts, Science | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

The New Yorker – News Desk: Why Is Eric Schmidt Stepping Down at Google?

This is super short arti­cle but man it details the entire story of Schmidt leav­ing Google as C.E.O.

January 24, 2011 – 11:15 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Economics, General News, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Toppling the statue of Saddam Hussein in Iraq : The New Yorker

This is a clas­sic New Yorker story, take a sin­gle idea or story go really in depth, pull inter­est­ing nuggets and raise questions.

January 3, 2011 – 12:14 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Communication, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off