I’m going to be honest. I never really jumped on the citizen journalism bandwagon. Given the choice between a professionally turned story and a CJ-turned story, I’m picking the professional story 99 times out of 100. It’s nothing personal against citizen journalists, and I realize they’ve done some very good work. It just isn’t my [...]
I’m not going to pretend that I can add anything to the worldwide display of grief or mourning at the loss of Steve Jobs. I’m a little late, anyway. I don’t have any personal stories of encounters with Jobs like so many tech writers. I can’t share emails I exchanged with him. I can’t even [...]
Unless you’ve avoided the Web today (which would make no sense considering you’re reading this), you’ve no doubt seen the complaints and aggravation over the Facebook redesign. Please, everyone. Relax. This outrage happens every time Facebook makes a major change. Every time, the outrage goes away after a day or two when people finally get [...]
Like most Americans, I will never forget exactly where I was on the morning of 9/11. I had just finished producing a local news cut-in during the Today Show when NBC came back with live pictures of smoke pouring out of the first tower. No one knew what was going on, so I really didn’t [...]
A tweet from my friend Jon Swartz, the tech writer at USA Today, delivered the news Apple fanatics knew was eventually coming, but still dreaded to hear…