While I was away in India, Romenesko published two key memos, that reflect the challenge that newspapers face in the digital age.
The Dow Jones memo speaks to a company-wide project called Journal 3.0, talking about building a strategic plan for Dow Jones in the digital age. It says in part:
This is the right time to […]
Earlier I mentioned that if I had to do it over, I would drop Movable Type for WordPress.com. It’s built on the open source WordPress.org. I asked my computer-help guru Griff Wigley, pictured here, why Movable Type has remained so static, while these other sites are so much more user friendly. He speculates that […]
I am now back to blogging after a three-week vacation to India. Here is my favorite India technology story, perhaps after my teaching a Swami to blog:
My wife and I had arrived at the Nazamuddin railway station in New Delhi for a night train to Agra to see the Taj Mahal. The scene at the […]
Yesterday Bombay was rocked by the commuter train bombings. Today I visited the Tibetan Refugee Self-Help Centre in Darjeeling and told a Tibetan elder that I would be in Bombay in a few days and I was worried about the bombings, and his response was, “That was yesterday.”
Until the bombings my wife and […]
I have been in India to attend colleague Nikhil Moro’s wedding in Mysore. While there we stayed at the Sri Ramakrishna Vidyashala, a resident boys school run by Hindu monks. Just like the world of journalism, the monks are used to being gatekeepers, they want the boys to be well educated but at the same […]
Leonard Witt is the Robert D. Fowler Distinguished Chair in Communication at Kennesaw State University and the chief blogger of PJNet. His academic interests include public and citizen journalism and how to get citizens' voices heard. He has spent most of his professional career as an award-winning journalist.