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Friday, January 4, 2008

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Learned to Love the Blog: The Endless Conversation

This is my third and last post about what my move from old to new media has taught me. In the first, I discussed its dynamism, in the second its amazing level of clarity.
And the third? Well, because it never stops. Ever.

Case in point, a somewhat frivolous story, which actually does have important broader implications [...]

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Thursday, January 3, 2008

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Learned to Love the Blog: Truthiness!

So yesterday I posted my first of three ruminations of what the leap from old media to new media has taught me.
In it, I noted that “I think it is safe to say that I will probably never write another thing professionally for a print publication and will spend the rest of my career–such that [...]

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Wednesday, January 2, 2008

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Learned to Love the Blog: Goodbye Dead Trees!

As the new year begins, it’s probably past time to assess what the jump from old media to new media has taught me.
I know what it sounds like–old lady print reporter starts a gen-you-wine blog and goes all gaga about new media or else makes a tsk-tsk list of what needs to change to make [...]

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Monday, December 3, 2007

Memo to Bill Keller: The Kids Love the Web (Also, Saul Hansell!)

Speaking in London last week, New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller delivered a speech that sounded suspiciously like the grumpy rants of Hollywood moguls of late, who don’t like this digital thing one little bit. To his credit, Keller spent the start of the speech in honor of the late legendary Guardian columnist Hugo Young expertly dissecting the appalling attitude of the Bush administration toward the free press.

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About Kara

Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau in 1997 and also wrote the BoomTown column about the sector. With Walt Mossberg, she co-produces and co-hosts D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech and media conference. Read more »

Ethics Statement

Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.

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