How to become a (dying) dinosaur:
When I entered Disney, it was like a classic Cadillac Phaeton that had been left out in the rain … The company’s thought process was not, “We have all this amazing machinery — how do we use it to make exciting things? We could go to Mars in this rocket […]

If you were a fly on the wall inside any North American j-school, I think you would conclude that some faculty members are very forward-looking, some others have chained themselves to the barricades of old, outdated techniques, and a lot more are caught in the middle. There’s a lesson in this for newsrooms.
Vin Crosbie observed […]

Mark Glaser interviewed some experts and came up with this list (see the full post for important details):

Get inbound links and link out as well.
Headlines and title tags should have key words up front.
Web addresses for your blog posts or articles should include key words.
Page descriptions should be unique or eliminated.
Highlight your best content on […]

Awesome post from Melissa Worden:
Looking from the outside in
She explains how she consumes and follows news now that she is no longer a working journalist. She is still a news junkie, obviously — but one who never reads a printed newspaper. And she’s clearly online-savvy.

I subscribe to news Twitter accounts. CNN posts breaking news tweets, […]

Khoi Vinh, design director of NYTimes.com, was answering readers’ questions online for the past five days.
What he looks for when hiring a new employee:
[A]n ideal applicant would have very strong traditional graphic design skills; in-depth training in usability and interaction design; practical experience coding XHTML, CSS, JavaScript and Flash; a commercially viable comfort level with […]

I don’t know what inspired the clever folks at the Las Vegas Sun to concoct this, but it is great fun for a frequent flyer such as I:
Flight Delay Calculator
See what bad records some airports have for delayed flights — all over the United States. Look up your most hated airline (tough choice!) or how […]

Student and journalist Jared Silfies dumped out his backpack and showed us the things he carries for mobile reporting.
I love his photo! I would enjoy seeing more like it. What do you say — can you post a picture for us, and give us a gear list? Just post it to Flickr if you don’t […]