Slack is widely acknowledged as the enterprise real-time messaging (work chat) tool with the most traction, having passed the million daily user…
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Ben Thompson: The one-man blog isn’t dead, it’s better than ever
There has been a lot written lately about the death of the blog since Andrew Sullivan decided to retire from The Daily Dish, but tech blogger Ben Thompson says the one-man blog model is working better than it ever has…
Read MoreBlogging is very much alive — we just call it something else now
Andrew Sullivan's decision to quit blogging made me think a lot about how blogging has changed over the past few years -- both in good ways and bad ways -- and what it means to say that one is a "blogger"…
Read MoreSullivan quits blogging: “I’m a human being before I am a writer”
Political blogger Andrew Sullivan, who successfully crowdfunded his own independent site at The Daily Dish, says he is going to stop blogging after 15 years because he is worn out by the stress of daily deadlines…
Read MoreNick Denton unveils “the great unclenching” at Gawker Media
Gawker founder Nick Denton unveiled a management shakeup he referred to as "the great unclenching," in which he will share power over the blog network with a management committee of seven, a change he hopes will help Gawker compete with BuzzFeed and Vox…
Read MoreWhat does the rise of brand journalism mean? For one thing, it means journalists have to up their game
What happens when brands become media entities in their own right, with all the same tools for reaching readers or viewers? Journalists and traditional media outlets have to try harder to provide something valuable, or their audience will go elsewhere…
Read MoreThe registration of Russian bloggers has begun
The first to receive notices demanding that they join a censorship-happy register reportedly include prominent novelists and satirists, who are now expected to abide by the same rules as journalists on their blogs.…
Read MoreDespite a history of dismal failures, hyperlocal news continues to attract believers
Hyperlocal news has attracted -- and ultimately disappointed -- hundreds of entrepreneurs over the years, including the CEO of AOL, but that hasn't stopped former Project Thunderdome head Jim Brady or the founders of Brooklyn's Corner Media from betting on their success…
Read MoreThis week in media: VICE talks, Gawker balks, the NYT kills blogs and GE starts its own news hub
In this week's roundup of media-industry shenanigans, VICE Media wants to be bought, Gawker doesn't, General Electric starts an online magazine while Medium expands an existing one, and the New York Times is killing its blogs but says it still really likes blogging…
Read MoreCan the New York Times kill its blogs without losing the soul of blogging in the process?
The New York Times has said it is planning to shut down or absorb as many as half of its existing blogs, with the hope that those skills can become more widespread inside the newspaper as a whole -- but will they?…
Read MoreI miss the old blogosphere — we’ve gained a lot, but we’ve also lost something
A post by long-time tech blogger Dan Gillmor about the decline of the "indie web" got me thinking about the old days of the blogosphere, and how powerful the unedited voice of a single passionate blogger can be. Have we gained as much as we've lost?…
Read MoreAppeals court says blogs are not only media, they’re an important source of news and commentary
An appeals court has ruled that a blogger is a member of the media for the purposes of defamation law -- another decision that helps support the idea of protecting acts of journalism, rather than just specific people who are defined as professional journalists…
Read MoreJason Calacanis launches Inside, a mobile news-curation app powered by humans
Calacanis says he built the Inside app and its associated website to provide a smart news-curation tool that will give users an easy way to browse high-quality online journalism via human-generated summaries…
Read MoreIn 12 years of blogging, the more things change, the more they stay the same
Over the past 12 years, blogging has gone from being a niche curiosity to becoming a catch-all phrase for everything from rants to press release rewrites. However, what has not changed is its ethos and its importance in an increasingly content rich world.…
Read MoreIrony alert: Newspapers were social media long before blogs and Facebook came along
Newspapers and social media are seen as opposite ends of the media spectrum now, and in many cases as adversaries -- but not all that long ago, newspapers themselves were a very powerful form of social media…
Read MoreThe rise of Brown Moses: How an unemployed British man has become a poster boy for citizen journalism
From the front room of his flat in a British suburb, an unemployed man with no journalistic training named Eliot Higgins has become the go-to source for information about weapons and military activity in Syria…
Read MoreSorry, would-be Walt Mossbergs, but the day of the great mass-media technology critic is over
New Yorker magazine wonders who the "next great technology critic" might be now that Walt Mossberg and David Pogue have moved on -- but the truth is there isn't going to be one or two, there will be hundreds.…
Read MoreActs of journalism: Why we need to be skeptical of a shield law for professional journalists
Protection for journalists via a so-called "shield law" seems like a good idea, but as Josh Stearns of Free Press notes, any such law needs to cover acts of journalism, not just journalists…
Read MoreThe shifting balance of power in media is real, no matter what the Columbia Journalism Review says
The Columbia Journalism Review says that bloggers like Kara Swisher and Andrew Sullivan are unique, and that other journalists and writers shouldn't look to them as examples of what is possible -- but that's not true at all…
Read MoreWhen aggregators attack: Techmeme’s headline-rewriting is just part of a larger shift
Techmeme founder Gabe Rivera has announced that the technology-news aggregator will begin rewriting headlines on the links it posts -- a small change, but one that also illustrates how much the balance of power in media is shifting.…
Read MoreAndrew Sullivan may not have met his Daily Dish goal yet, but in many ways he has already won
Andrew Sullivan says that based on current conversion rates for his subscription-driven political blog The Daily Dish, he doesn't expect to hit his goal of raising $900,000 -- but despite that, he has still achieved a lot that is worth celebrating.…
Read MoreThe new writer’s dilemma: You wrote something really great — now, where do you put it?
With the proliferation of new publishing platforms -- and not just blogs or social networks, but also all-digital publishers like Medium, LinkedIn and the Huffington Post -- how does a writer decide where they should put their work?…
Read MoreInstructions on how to transform a comment troll into a human being
Comment trolls are often used as an example of why blog comments are a waste of time, but a recent series by the Climate Desk showed how they can quickly be turned into human beings.…
Read MoreAndrew Sullivan says it’s “unlikely” The Dish will reach its $900,000 goal
Popular politics blog The Dish, which went independent and added a metered paywall at the beginning of this year, is probably not going to reach its $900,000 goal, founder Andrew Sullivan says.…
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