Telling the whole story
Submitted by yelvington on August 14, 2016 - 9:13pm
Our visitors, Anya Semeniuk, Irina Breza, and Yarina Denisiuk took a moment to shoot a selfie upon their arrival at the Savannah airport.
Giving up on print: Britain's national daily The Independent stops the presses
Submitted by yelvington on February 12, 2016 - 1:04pmAfter decades of predictions that print newspapers are doomed, it should come as no shock, but still: I was caught off guard by the announcement that Britain's national daily The Independent is giving up on print.
A week in Ukraine
Submitted by yelvington on July 18, 2015 - 1:51pm
I'm back in the United States and mostly unjetlagged from a week in Ukraine, where I spent most of the time with the Chernihiv Media Group in a program operated by IREX and funded by the U.S. State Department. Ukraine is a country at war, but it's a strange one, geographically isolated to an eastern region where pro-Moscow rebels (and covert Russian soldiers) are trying to break away and reconnect with Russia.
Once a pioneer, now a piece of history
Submitted by yelvington on June 19, 2015 - 3:43pmWell, this makes me feel old: I'm now a source of oral history. I was interviewed recently for the Internet History Podcast by by Brian McCullough, whose attention was caught by my complaint about revisionist history and the "original sin" myth.
Killing the golden goose
Submitted by yelvington on June 14, 2015 - 7:57am
One of the site engagement metrics that I monitor is pages per visitor.
It's a number that's under a lot of downward pressure as social media, especially Facebook, becomes more dominant in the user experience.
Revisionist online journalism history and the 'original sin' myth
Submitted by yelvington on June 7, 2015 - 3:17pmA column by Aurora Sentinel editor Dave Perry is making the rounds on Facebook, I think primarily because the weekly paper is arguing that Denver is better off with a strong daily newspaper than without one, and that's something journalists like to hear. I happen to agree, but I gagged when I got to the part of the article that describes the impact of the Internet:
Most of you really don’t have a clue what’s happened.
Bluffton Today, ten years later
Submitted by yelvington on April 3, 2015 - 10:19amThis week marks the 10th anniversary of the launch of Bluffton Today, 
a hyperlocal newspaper whose evolution reflects many of the major forces operating on journalism in this country.
Two decades into the "big digital hugeness"
Submitted by yelvington on April 1, 2015 - 8:52pmThe Star Tribune in Minneapolis is moving to an office tower down the street. In the process, staff archaeologists unearthed a video of the 1995 unveiling of Star Tribune Online to the staff. Jamie Hutt posted it on YouTube. It's an hour long, which is more of watching myself than I can stand, but Adrian Holovaty made it through and pointed me to this:
Responding to mobile trends
Submitted by yelvington on February 2, 2015 - 3:18pmA couple of recent (re)launches that address the continuing growth of mobile Internet usage:
Business in Savannah got a shiny new responsive design last month. Chris White wrote about it. The BiS brand is used for the daily business coverage of the Savannah Morning News as well as a separate monthly business magazine.
Something to think about on Labor Day
Submitted by yelvington on September 1, 2014 - 9:52amWhat happens when your job is automated out of existence? "Knowledge workers" have imagined themselves immune, but machine learning changes everything. It is great that technology lifts the yoke of labor from humanity. It's not so great when humanity is left with nothing. In our economic system, the benefits of such change do not accrue to the freed labor. We may need to rethink that.