Today I came across two articles that I found really disturbing.
The first is from The Hill, Dick Morris wrote an article “Obama vs. Freedom” about possibly subsidizing news media. Now I can’t think of anytime in the last 4 years that I have known about Dick Morris that I have agreed with him, but on this point I will. I think government tied into financially with news outlets to against everything I believe in. If you are liberal minded, take a look at the comments – they are unbelievable [thanks to a Drudge link]. You have to read between the lines, but fundamentally the story seems to be logical. Journalism and government do not mix.
Then my buddy Milo sent me a link to an article on TechCrunch by Paul Carr “A Death of A Thousand Hacks: New Forbes Editorial Genius In Bold Plan to Kill Forbes”. Read the article, it will scare the hell out of you. Going with what seems like a scattershot approach to journalism. Take thousands of terrible articles and hope that one is good. It is all about SEO and page views – whether they are useful or not.
Today I am very depressed about the news media – when NYT goes paywall it will be the last nail in the coffin.
Well there is a lot I would like to do on this blog – but I haven’t gotten to step one. I would like to change the icon – or maybe the theme altogether, but no – no progress.
I am still trying to figure out what I am going to write about, but work keeps getting in the way. Six or more projects that each require my attention, but none get the attention that they need.
Be patient – at some point I will get my act together and will start talking about UI, SEO and content management systems like I had planned to.
Maybe at some point there will be something of interest here, but for now I am only experimenting. The source of this blog came from a conversation about how if you work on the web you should have a blog. I am not the sort to actually place everything out on the web – so I won’t. This blog will touch on subjects that I will come across in both my work and sometimes my personal life.
There will be nothing juicy – just items that I am thinking about in what spare time I have. If I ever get followers I am hoping to ask questions and develop some converstations – if not it will serve as a way to flesh out concepts and maybe test development of the WordPress system. I have only installed about a dozen of them and I am constantly changing how they work – of course to a point where I cannot upgrade them due to breaking functionality for components modified for a previous system. I will try not to do that here.
This is just the beginning – so be patient – I will try to find my voice quickly.