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Published on May 21, 2005

I risk being cashiered from the New Mediati if I don’t mention that Jeff Jarvis has a new gig. Several, actually.
Pay for performance online is indeed changing offline ad models. But this is the wrong way to go.
The Ventura County Star had to remove user comment capabilities because responses were getting too nasty. Heh. Let the open-source backlash begin.
A great treatise on connectivity and immediacy.
It sounds like Rafat Ali is having a lot of conversations similar to the ones I’m having. Sometimes I feel like a (seemingly) mad prophet, too.
The always-right Alan Mutter on the NYT’s paid content scheme.
Way off-topic, but Our Gracious Host has one of the best lines I’ve heard in a long time, this one re: the controversy over possible Bush-Bashing in Revenge of the Sith:
After all, Star Wars was about a kid from the desert who met a crazy old man, joined a terrorist organization and blew up a government building.

Mike Orren is the Chief Product Officer of The Dallas Morning News; President of Belo Business Intelligence; husband to Crystal Orren; and a Mungarian at Munger Place Church in Dallas, TX. All opinions herein are mine alone.