Assholes of Journalism

(via ChannelAlex)
In 2007, The Miami Herald hired recent college graduate Brayden Simms to launch a blog about frugal living, called “Heavy Thrifting.”
By now you’ve probably heard the story, which is like something straight from the pages of Kafka’s unpublished diaries.They hired Brayden, fired Brayden, and then re-hired Brayden to blog about the experience of being [...]

Going Open Source

With the popularity of Twitter and ’status update’ messages on email/social sites, people are definitely not lacking ways to stay updated on each other’s lives. However, what may be lacking is quality conversations and info-exchanges between friends online. For example, Twitter limits your “thoughts” to 140 characters and Facebook’s “wall” caps you out at 1,000 [...]