JR: Tt post fri mar 18 2016 - in thread: Maybe Burris and his good friend EconCat88 held their coffee summit after all. This is some negative-ass stuff, spewed by Burris. I wish Burris would be less realistic and more phony-positive, even though that would mean sacrificing in... more>> 1 min read
- Mar 18, 2016 - #media #toledo #politics

JR: March 2016 mainstream media article design layouts - #media #design #web
- Mar 12, 2016

JR: Tt post mar 12 2016 - Blade story that Mariner alluded to above: Mar 12, 2016 - Mayor names 7 as monitors of how Issue 2 money spent And we need about 150,000 people to monitor the monitors. Even if the issue 2 scam is defeated on Tuesday, then the city can play their ... more>> 3 min read
- Mar 12, 2016 - #toledo #politics #media #moronism

JR: Radical changes at the Dallas Morning News - march 2016 story #media #design
- Mar 11, 2016

JR: Using other services to create a local media org - March 2016 - Video storage to allow videos to be embedded into blog posts: Vimeo YouTube Image storage to allow images to be embedded into blog posts: Flickr Video livestream: Facebook Live Twitter's Periscope Photo and short video storage and/or ... more>> 1 min read
- Mar 10, 2016 - #media #blogging #video #socialmedia #local

JR: Tt post about web page bloat - mar 7, 2016 - "BTW - some of the sites most laden with pop-up, banner, Flash, and stealth ads are newspaper sites. Even the New York Times and the Washington Post are so full of slow-loading commercial bloat that they are almost worthless to visit." Oh man, I cou... more>> 5 min read
- Mar 09, 2016 - #media #design #moronism

JR: Tt post mar 8 2016 - more about media website bloat - "I watched Spotlight last week. It won the award for best film, and detailed how the Boston Globe investigative team uncovered the pedophile priest scandal in the Boston archdiocese." And that reporting occurred or began in 2002. January 6, 2002 -... more>> 7 min read
- Mar 09, 2016 - #media #design #moronism

JR: Newspapers are executing a war on the web - my notes/thoughts from this stream ... ... have been copied here: "Forget Spotlight: There's a war against journalism" - - #media #moronism #humor #entertainment - a lot of whining from a media person about the entertainer Trump. it's not politi... more>> 3 min read
- Mar 01, 2016 - #media #moronism #humor #entertainment #speed #design #web

JR: Tt post sun feb 21 2016 - Sunday afternoon, Feb 21, 2016 tweet by Ryan Wichman: Can't stand these websites and fake forecasters who exploit people. All they do is post big snow totals/tornado threats to scare people. That's funny coming from someone in TV media who are t... more>> 1 min read
- Feb 21, 2016 - #tv #media #moronism #weather #toledo

JR: My tt comment - feb 10, 2016 - Since the Seneca County courthouse is a significant national and maybe international issue, and since the Blade is approaching this with serious journalism, then the Blade needs to ask what Sanders and Trump would have done. I'm guessing that Trump ... more>> 1 min read
- Feb 10, 2016 - #toledo #media #moronism #humor #politics

JR: Stories to Read - Feb 2, 2016 - and read again: SELLING INTELLIGENCE: A NEW BUSINESS MODEL FOR NEWSPAPERS FALLACIES OF STOP SURVEYS AN INFORMAL LOOK AT COLUMNIST READERSHIP MARKETING THREATS AND OPPORTUNITIES: PUBLISHERS' AND CEOS' PERSPECTIVES ON THE NEWSPAPER INDUSTRY ... more>>
- Feb 02, 2016 - #media #business #design

JR: Google AMP and Facebook's Instant Articles info - late Jan 2016 - Jan 26, 2016 and other media stories. https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/distributed-news-the-vox-way-of-getting-stories-out-to-6-social-platforms/s2/a603974/ #local - #media - #socialmedia - #design - #mobile
- Jan 26, 2016

JR: Tt post jan 16 2016 - Jan 13, 2016 WaPo story about ESPN. A survey of 1,582 consumers commissioned last week by BTIG Research found that 56 percent of respondents would remove ESPN and ESPN2 from their cable packages to save $8 per month, which is about the cost cable... more>> 1 min read
- Jan 16, 2016 - #sports #media #tv #business

JR: WTOL fires employees for playing the game Cards Against Humanity - Toledo, Ohio - News broke on Thu, Jan 14, 2016 that TV news station WTOL fired employees for playing a game. But it's not that simple. The employees played the allegedly offensive game at work. Bad choice. Stupid choice. It's possible that another ... more>> 1 min read
- Jan 15, 2016 - #toledo #media #business #moronism #socialmedia #humor

JR: Tt post jan 11 2016 b - quote=198789 It's a style issue and not a hard rule. My style version would be incorrect if you were my editor, and I did not follow your style recommendations. The AP style manual would agree with you and use Burris'. The book titled When Words... more>> 1 min read
- Jan 11, 2016 - #writing #media