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A rare moment in journalism history

October 2, 2009

I vividly remember my journalism professor tell us undergrads in the early ‘90s that news reporting was the business of alcoholics. Meaning: The profession tends to have a disproportionate number of those who imbibe adult beverages far too often. What reminded me of this was reading the local weekly (online) yesterday. The editor wrote a [...]

Slideshare’s Apology: A Model Response

April 5, 2009

April Fool’s Day wasn’t kind to Slideshare, the San Francisco/New Delhi-based site that hosts slideshows of presentations. It’s the equivalent of Youtube, but for PowerPoint presentations instead of videos. On April 1, Slideshare sent to its users an email saying, “You are a Slideshare rockstar.” It detailed the number of views users had received on [...]