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I don't know if anybody is still reading Mediasavvy. Since I launched Coastsider in May 2004, I haven't been posting much here. However, if you're still interested in what I have to say, there is a place where you can...
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Microsoft is now censoring US-based blogs that might (OK, probably) offend the Chinese government. MSN is censoring Michael Anti's blog, which has been irritating Beijing for some time. Microsoft's excuse--"Most countries have laws and practices that require companies to make...
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I just made interesting sale. Back in September, I covered a murder in Coastsider. I was first on the scene and got some great photos of the crime scene and Sheriffs at the site. The story itself is lurid and...
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Knight-Ridder, publisher of the San Jose Mercury News, bought the company that publishes the San Mateo Daily News, and four other free papers in Burlingame, Redwood City, Palo Alto, and Los Gatos. This is a significant media shift, both...
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I just received a note from Hallmark apologizing for the poor performance of their site on Valentine's Day. Apparently, despite their best efforts to prepare, they got twice as much traffic as they expected. This is good news for...
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The National Newspaper Association (the trade association for small-town newspapers) has some stern words for WalMart, which has mounted a public relations and advertising campaign to fend off its critics: So why is it that community newspapers in America...
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As my strategy for Coastsider develops, two things become clear: the focus of the site must be ruthlessly local, and I would love to have a general news feed. The local focus is key. I'm simply not running stories that...
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My friend Dustin sent me a note I wanted to share: I saw these quotes in different media sources and thought you might appreciate the way they illuminate Hollywood's understanding of technology: "This is an interesting way to start my...
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I love Netflix. Their service is remarkable. In my town, where there is no video store, I see their unmistakable red envelopes everywhere. However, I was cheered to hear that Amazon might get in the market and would be prepared...
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Friday, Jon Stewart broke through the curtain on CNN's Crossfire. If you haven't seen it already, you must view one of the streams of Stewart's appearance. He did something that no one approved for appearance on TV has been willing...
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The finalist list for the Online Journalism Awards confirms my suspicion that Online News Association's idea of a small site (fewer than half a million unique visitors a month) is way too high. Belo, the Orange County Register, Congressional Quarterly,...
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I was listening to a story about yet another stolen election in some faraway country on NPR and I wondered if political corruption in nominal democracies is having an effect on voting in the United States. All markets are international....
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I love Yahoo. I think they're good people and they have a terrific product that they're making better every day. But Google is beating them at their own game. Yahoo owns Overture, which arguably invented keyword advertising, the online ad...
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When I built Coastsider, my goal was to make the design, and the underlying markup, as simple as possible. I wanted to do the layout with CSS only -- no tables. Tables brought back too many memories for me of...
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News sites have been wringing their hands about whether blogging is journalism and whether newspapers should let their reporters blog. They're missing the most important point about blogging. Suddenly, millions of their readers now have better-managed web sites that are...
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