From 37Signals Manifesto.
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What is a journalist's job?
There’s a great post by Jeff Atwood on the importance of elevator pitch test out of which I snip the following: <blockquote>Software developers think their job is writing code. But it’s not.* Their job is to solve the customer’s problem. Sure, our preferred medium for solving problems is software, and...
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Facebook's 'great betrayal' does users a favor
Two points, perhaps slightly contradictory:
Facebook's new privacy rollout is doing users a favor.
"Free" may be the limit that social networks can, by and large, charge users, but it means the users aren't the customers.
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Membership has its meaning, Elitist Edition
Maybe news organizations could learn a thing or two from the genteel country club: Keep the riff-raff out, a whiff of superiority in, and everyone (with a membership) gets to enjoy the greens.
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Open source journalism: The Gotham Gazette's budget games
Gail Robinson, editor in chief of the Gotham Gazette, and Amanda Hickman are two of my new journalism heroes. With a Knight Foundation grant, they’ve been creating a series of news games, which they’re in the process of open sourcing. Switch is kind of a basic game that has players...
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