We’re adding a 7th way to get your fix of NewsJunk politics — email. Yeah, it’s old and boring, but lots of people still use it!
Of course we’d like to use someone else’s service to do the actual distribution, at least at first while we’re bootstrapping. In the old days I’d go with Yahoo Groups […]
Earlier today I asked for advice — should I use Yahoo or Google Groups or something else to distribute email to NewsJunk readers? In the discussion that followed, a few people suggested that because Yahoo’s future was uncertain, Google would be a better bet. This made sense, like everyone else I’ve been following the news […]
A commenter named Billenator says it’s all about money. It’s a good essay, and worth thinking about.
But what’s been missing in much of the discussion is an understanding that large entities like AP rarely are of one mind about anything. I first learned this in the 80s trying to make sense of Apple, a company […]
Tim Russert died on Friday. I never met the guy, but I sure was familiar with his work.
I thought he personified what was wrong with the political process, and I said so. It would be hypocritical now for me to say he was a great man, because I don’t think he was. Sometimes I felt […]