Fri 29 Jul. 2005

All The News That’s Fun To Print

A new citizen journalism service called HappyNews: links only to happy news “geared to lift spirits and inspire lives.”

“Real News, Compelling Stories, Always Positive”

The world can certainly do with more of that…. also sports an RSS feed

(via Micro Persuasion)

Memo to mainstream media…

You don’t get to blog

It is, I’m horrified to report, a direct quote: %u201CWe gotta get into that blogging thing if we want to get snaps from younger readers…%u201D

Now, if you happen to hear these words coming from a very senior, 50-something editor at a well-known American newspaper I’m sure your reaction will be exactly like mine, namely: “uh-oh, I’m going to have a grand mal seizure now…”

(via unmediated)