Why Allbritton was right to short-circuit TBD.

March 07 Comments Off on Why Allbritton was right to short-circuit TBD. Category: Blogging, Feed, HackText

Someone realized that TBD was doing the worst thing in the world for Allbritton, telling the competition that they could compete. The cut-backs issued to Allbritton Communication’s grand experiment TBD were surprising. First the outlet cut community profit-sharing, than Allbritton paired the organization down to just a website and put it under the purview of […]

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Links 2-23-11: TBD staff dumped, Easier bibliographies, Compelled consent, A world without oil

February 23 Comments Off on Links 2-23-11: TBD staff dumped, Easier bibliographies, Compelled consent, A world without oil Category: Actual, Links

TBD was the great social experiment in DC; a group of media outlets turned into one community-powered converged news source. At least it was before Allbritton systematically removed its limbs.

Links 2-9-11: webOS scales up, @TBD goes down, Pay tags are live in WordPress

February 09 Comments Off on Links 2-9-11: webOS scales up, @TBD goes down, Pay tags are live in WordPress Category: Actual, Links

HP announced a whole bunch of stuff today. The big take away is that the company is putting its money on webOS in a big way.