A Sax to Build a Dream on

Just getting into the after-hours club in Phoenix required an unlikely combination of connections and trust. You had to know it existed in the first place. Then you needed directions – there was no sign outside advertising the joint that opened at 2 a.m., the hour Arizona law required all bars to close. After knocking…

Entreprenureal Journalism links and Twitters

Here are some of the links from my discussion today on Entrepreneurial Journalism at the SPJ Region 8 Conference in San Antonio.Books for news startups: Entrepreneurial Journalism by Mark BriggsThe Lean Startup by Eric RiesLean Analytics Croll & YoskovitzNet Smart by Howard RheingoldSmart Mobs by Howard Rheingold22 Immutable laws of Marketing, Reiss & TroutRocket Surgery…

Newspapers don’t own journalism

I always thought it was odd to hear flat out declarations that there can be no life on other planets in the absence of water. How egocentric! So you’re saying that life can only exist if it’s precisely like us? Really? That’s the feeling I’m getting right now in the woe-is-us, hand-wringing sob-fest about whether…

The offline mind

incurious \(ˌ)in-ˈkyu̇r-ē-əs\ lacking a normal or usual curiosity : uninterested <a blank incurious stare> synonyms: see indifferent – Merriam-Webster I am not at all relieved that John McCain, an acknowledged computer illiterate, is now “learning to get online,” without help. Here’s what he told the New York Times: Q: But do you go on line…