Monetize Your Typos

Doctorow: Make money with typos

A while back, I lamented how social media seem to lead inevitably to the decline of editing and proofreading. I was given new hope this weekend, though, while listening to Leo Laporte’s podcast “This Week in Tech.” Towards the end, guest Cory Doctorow, the science fiction writer and Boing-Boing co-publisher, [...]

May 26th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Editing, Writing | One comment

Interviews: Confrontation or Critical Collaboration?

Lessons from David Pogue, Steve Jobs, and Leo Laporte

Was David Pogue too easy on Steve Jobs?

A recent kerfuffle in the blogosphere/podosphere involving New York Times tech columnist David Pogue offers B2B journalists and editors some interesting ethical issues to mull over. Pogue has been under attack for supposed conflicts of interest, first in an [...]

September 24th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: Ethics | Leave a comment

What B2B Can Learn from Jeff Jarvis, Part 4

Turning Cash Cows into Mini-Moos

What Would Google Do? By Jeff Jarvis. HarperBusiness, 2009.

In the previous three parts of this review of What Would Google Do?, I’ve looked at how Jarvis’s ideas apply to B2B in terms of its relation to readers, the impact of hyperlinks, and the shift from product journalism to process journalism. [...]

September 23rd, 2009 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Book Review | One comment