Comments on Wormtown Taxi: Growth Industry

Andy: I look at the blogosphere as a huge gaggle o...

2008-04-28T10:37:00.000-04:00

Andy: I look at the blogosphere as a huge gaggle of geese, and we're all honking...

It's hard to say what the newspaper business is go...

2008-04-28T10:24:00.000-04:00

It's hard to say what the newspaper business is going to be like in the next decade or 2. But I think it's going to look a helluva lot more like Wormtown Taxi than the T&G.

Isn't it the disconnect between readers and what e...

2008-04-28T10:04:00.000-04:00

Isn't it the disconnect between readers and what editors are being ordered to do by their frantic bosses? I see it as the same disconnect that's been taking place in corporate culture for years, ie- the complete disconnect between how "value is added" and the "expense of having employees."

When a business purposes to "make money" rather than to "produce something of value" it tends to

I get the first paragraphs of T&G articles via RSS...

2008-04-28T09:24:00.000-04:00

I get the first paragraphs of T&G articles via RSS, and I gotta say I found the first paragraph of this one insulting enough that I didn't bother to read the article (until now). "[Y]ou’re watching 'American Idol' rather than reading this newspaper"? I know this is supposed to be a joke, but I wonder whether it's also a sign of the disconnect between journalists and readers. Are people no longer