adrian monck

Month: February 2007

  • At the NYT, David Carr thinks that because people comment on his blog he’s in touch with them. Wrong. Now you can hear what’s going on in the heads of a strange fraction of people who read you. That isn’t market research and it isn’t contact.

  • Blogging and the future of journalism

    Let’s be clear. The Zogby poll on bloggers is not good news for bloggers. The blogosphere has echoed to the sound of a press release being masticated by people who would like to swallow it without even chewing. People like us. Bloggers. Here’s what the PR said: Zogby Poll: Most Say Bloggers, Citizen Reporters to…

  • Having a hard time posting to your blog?

    Take comfort. It was ever thus. Here’s the editor of the British Spy or Derby Post-Man writing in the 1720s, when filling space was a little more challenging than it is today: When the Mails fail us and the people are inactive at home, when Great Folks are so ill-natur’d as neither to marry nor…

  • AFPTV

    French wire service AFP is launching a new TV service in French and English. It will have bureaux in Warsaw, Istanbul, Baghdad, Cairo, New Delhi, Bangkok, Beijing, Nairobi, Rio de Janeiro, and of course, Washington DC.