Posts Tagged ‘facebook’
DisgraceBook
Okay so I decided today to remove my Facebook account (My wife actually put the idea in my head). Why do you ask? Because I don’t need it. It makes no sense to me any longer. Most people I enjoy talking to I do so in person or on Twitter. Twitter makes sense to me, short simple conversations or links to things I enjoy. Facebook not so much.
Facebook got to the point where I just had Twitter post directly to my status updates and I hardly ever did anything on it. It was great to look up past friends and reflect on my past, problem is I got to see a lot of folks from my past are still the same and to be honest I’ve moved on. Not a bad thing, just not me.
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Print to Digital – Change Resistant
So I jumped back into the online news world and it has delightfully brought back all these grandiose ideas, things I wanted to try when I left this business, things I thought would work, etc. Little did I know a lot of folks still in 2010 are having trouble letting go.
It doesn’t help that the company I now work for, Journal Register Company, had a corporate mandate not too long ago that prohibited its newsrooms to post any news that wasn’t at least two days old and a max of four stories a day (all from what I’ve been told). This is absurd to me. Think it was hard to get print-born folks to transform before, try to now break them from a previous communist corporate parent that would burn you to the ground if you disobeyed its laws.
Luckily JRC signed on John Paton as their CEO and put Jeff Jarvis on the board, well maybe not put, he was probably asked. Paton is all about good journalism and digital first. Jarvis is well, Jarvis. If you don’t know anything about him, Google him; he makes sense, and says things that some of us ‘younger’ online news folks have been saying for years. He makes sense, he is all about trying new things and empowering not just employees but your community. Makes sense.
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