The New York Times sheds some serifs
The past few days, there was something about the website of The New York TImes that was bothering me, and I finally figured out what it was: serifs. A serif […]
Category Archives: journalism
News and journalism
Elephant speaks human language (Korean)
I was so surprised to see an article in article in the NYT (Nov. 2, 2012) about Koshik (Kosik), the talking elephant in Korea. I had actually written a long […]
Vicious and Ingenious Social Media Campaign Against Shell: Who is the Joke on?
Kashmir Hill of Forbes has a great article summarizing the “nightmare” that the Shell Oil company is experiencing due to an anti-Shell social media campaign that was funded by Greenpeace. […]
Is a picture of words worth more than words?
I’ve been noticing lately that a lot of people are posting a picture of words in their Facebook status instead of just writing it in their status. This is a […]
The Last Newspaper: Newspapers as art
The New Museum has an exhibition titled “The Last Newspaper” featuring the work of artists who use (and abuse) the daily newspaper in their art practices. It is certainly not […]
Getting news from your social networks
About a week ago, I was telling my colleague about how we should do a study about how social network sites are increasingly becoming people’s initial (if not primary) news […]
Newspapers won’t die, but some should
The OJR posted an article that is by far the stupidest argument I’ve ever seen on why journalism is bound to fail. The gist of the argument is that people […]
Hyperlocal News Needs Social Networking
I’ve argued for some time that hyperlocal news is the future of newspapers and today’s article in the NYT points out several ventures that are trying out this model. These […]
D. Yvette Wohn 