Brief remarks on the death of Twitter as we knew it, and my digital whereabouts thereafter.

Like pretty much everyone else in journalism I’ve been thinking a lot about Facebook’s big News Feed announcement.

The Freedom of the Press Foundation has published an open letter signed by over 150 photojournalists and documentary filmmakers.

Because it’s often tangled up with personal taste, conversations about news design can get very messy, very fast.

Taken at its most literal, the “streams” mindset has resulted in news designs optimized almost exclusively around reverse chronological lists.

The fundamental contradiction at the heart of The Daily was that it aspired to be a mass market newspaper while only pursuing a single delivery channel.

Last week Pew published its annual State of the News Media report, there are lessons aplenty for publishers and content builders of all stripes.

Because of legacy tools and mindsets, the size of the average “iPad magazine” is about to go through the roof.

Wherein I throw my two cents into the latest media piracy kerfuffle.

So the Editor in Chief of the New York Times went and wrote something that’s irritated a few of us Intertubes Types.

Anil Dash has gone and written something rather wonderful​ about the “lifestyle business” euphemism.

Here’s a tip. Whenever you hear reports about how something new will “revolutionize” an industry while somehow preserving its previous context and practices, you are entering the realm of magic beans.

A quick food-for-thought quote from Clay Shirky’s speech at the Shorenstein Center last week.

“I guarantee there’s non-crap out there.”

In which we recall the tragedy of the CueCat.