Imagining the end of the Google Era

I did just that in an analysis piece for today’s London Evening Standard.

Mark Zuckerberg profiled

I just profiled Mr. Zuckerberg, my College Terrace neighbor, for the London Evening Standard.  It seemed to me that until very recently Zuckerberg had not been taken very seriously by the media.  He may yet fail to make something of Facebook, but he’s done enough now to be treated with respect

Food for journalistic thought

I’ve just found the set of radical ideas for improving journalism published by veteran Silicon Valley journalist Dan Gillmor last week.
If adopted, they’d truly create a very different-looking news experience.
One of the weird things about the  existential angst that’s currently afflicting journalism is how easily it’s become a debate about trying to save as much [...]

Recent columns

Recently, I’ve written about the storm of bad PR that’s been hitting Craigslist, the pressure that children in Silicon Valley feel to appear ‘perfect,’ and the way in which suppliers tend to beat out prospectors when it comes to reaping long term gains from short term (gold) rushes.

Geography as journalistic destiny

Since I was writing recently about the Bay Area’s unique creative culture, it’s interesting (to me at least) to note that Ready Made magazine is moving from Berkeley to Des Moines, Iowa.  There was a thoughtful dissection of what that might mean for the magazine in last Sunday’s San Francisco Chronicle.
“The move raises the question [...]

Recent Evening Standard columns

So this week I wrote about Silicon Valley’s new Singularity University.
And last week the topic was the wider Bay Area’s creative culture, of which the Valley’s own culture of creation is very much a part.

This week’s column

I’m thinking I should post my weekly Evening Standard column here, just in case anyone is interested.
So here is last week’s, about Twitter.
And here is the one from the week before, about the Crunchie awards.

The Anderson Valley Advertiser and the Future of Journalism

I’ve been following with time-sucking intensity the debate on the future of journalism now playing in locales as disparate as the New York Times, the Columbia Journalism Review, various technology blogs and back-and-forth ripostes between individuals with skin in the game on twitter.
The bare bones of the issue is that traditional advertising-based models of media [...]