Greg in Hollywood has made a splash.
That's what they do in Hollywood.
"Greg in Hollywood" gets more than 12,000 Google hits, many of which are to or about Greg Hernandez's new blog.
Hernandez and a friend have written about how the blog got off the ground a week after he was laid off from the Los Angeles Daily News.
We don't all have his resources, or the resources of a number of other new sites. But, that's OK. You can start a Web site anyway. You can do it quickly, easily, cheaply. Here's how.
Journalism schools need to skate ahead of the puck and avoid following a straight line in a dynamic situation. If they don't, they could fall off a cliff as they watch news jobs slide away.
In the past few years, journalism schools have done some rejiggering. But I think they can do better, by looking further ahead. To help with this, I made an outline for an imaginary college program in civic media.
This is my homework for my "Saving Journalism" class.
"The Innovator's Solution" explains how grooves become ruts — and how to climb out of the holes.
According to authors Clayton M. Christensen and Michael E. Raynor, success leads companies to continue building on their past. This blinds them to other markets and opportunities.
And when these opportunities are perceived, companies make one or two major mistakes: They try to grow too fast, or they pursue a hybrid strategy. Combining the old and the new results in little satisfaction to anyone.
The Web whispered.
We didn't hear it when it was born. We didn't hear it start breathing.
Some of us knew its stunted siblings. But Viewtron was ahead of its time.
The Net grew. It added links. But we weren't listening.
The readers whispered.
They were quiet initially, in the first half of last century. That was the apex of U.S. newspaper penetration. By the 1980s, grumbling had grown. Circulation peaked.
Methadone, long prescribed as an alternative to heroin, is proving to be a hazard of its own.
As a treatment for addiction, methadone is considered an effective tool. But as its use as a low-cost pain reliever becomes more widespread, a growing number of people are dying from methadone overdoses.
Methadone contributed to 299 fatal overdoses in the state [North Carolina] in 2005, the latest year with national data available. The number of such deaths has more than quintupled from 47 in 1999.
A state report indicates that from 1997 to 2001, at least a third of North Carolina victims had been prescribed methadone for pain relief.