As Posnanski continues his quest to figure out how newspapers will work in the future, Jay at Fack Youk wonders how blogs are going to work. After several very worthwhile paragraphs about what a person’s bookshelf says about them and the arguable irrelevance of books when you’re blogging your butt off every day, Jay asks […]

He has even set up a new blog for that purpose. He wants everyone’s thoughts, rants, ideas, and hare-brained schemes. I already sent in mine. Go check the new place out and then send him yours. (note: I’m bumping this up because it was posted late last night and people tend not to scroll back […]

Chip Johnson of the San Francisco Chronicle is miffed that Lew Wolff isn’t even considering Oakland in the effort to get a new stadium for the A’s. Fair enough, even though the economics probably aren’t on his side. But then Johnson trips the light moronic: In light of the team’s stated unwillingness to even consider […]

For those who found value in yesterday’s media piece, here’s a much, much longer and richer take on the future of news from Steven Berlin Johnson. No, he doesn’t have all of the answers either, but there are a ton of powerful ideas in there that will ultimately help those who do come up with […]

Many of you couldn’t give a hoot about the plight of newspapers and the future of media. If you’re one of the hootless, please move along. If you do hoot, then you have some must-reading today, in the form of Clay Shirky’s devestatingly insightful post about the death of newspapers and how, for all of […]

I reviewed the new Walter O’Malley biography, “Forever Blue” for the New York Post. The review, to the extent you can call it that when you’re given less than 1000 words, can be found here.

King Kaufman interviews Tracy Ringolsby — late of the Rocky Mountain News — about the death of his paper and the notion that he’s turning into a blogger of some kind with his new Rockies web site: Kaufman: You say you don’t know that much about the Internet and I wonder how you feel about […]

Italy is apparently trying to make bloggers register with the government. So much for my plan of retiring from the law and producing ShysterBall from a little Ligurian village.

Last year Fox’s Dayn Perry started — and then suspended — what looked to be shaping up into a must-read blog called Spolitical, which focused on the intersection of sports, politics, business, and society. The suspension was for a good reason: he owed a book to a publisher, and as I’m finding out, it’s hard […]

The New York Times, like all papers, is suffering from serious business woes these days. Apparently one of their responses to that problem is to ape the sports coverage of the brain dead tabloids. Just look at Harvey Araton’s piece from Saturday. First he joins in with the notion that the Yankees may be better […]