Comments on: What he says

By: Tansley - addendum

Tansley - addendum — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 16:50:41 +0000

Steve:

Darn! Me and my BIG MOUTH….

By: Steve Boriss

Steve Boriss — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 08:37:12 +0000

Tansley “he’s running out of TIME”
Nice job. You’ve just reminded Murdoch that he should not leave Time Magazine off his shopping list

By: Tansley - addendum

Tansley - addendum — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 23:40:25 +0000

God, Steve, I hope you’re wrong about that. The one consolation I take from this conversation is that Murdoch is getting OLD…and he’s running out of TIME…

By: Steve Boriss

Steve Boriss — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:31:24 +0000

Meanwhile, Yahoo sits there with the #1 ranked news site in the world, a fact that has caught Rupert Murdoch’s attention. Perhaps right now he feels like he needs to fully digest Dow Jones, successfully launch the new Fox Business Channel, or seize control of the national conversation from the NY Times, but lately he’s been making deals as if he has six months to live. I’d have to take long odds, but I’d bet we’ll be seeing Murdoch make another play for Yahoo sometime soon. (Steve Boriss, The Future of News)

By: The Authentic Voice

The Authentic Voice — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:30:59 +0000

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By: Saul Hansell

Saul Hansell — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:00:56 +0000

Thanks for noticing what we’re doing over at Bits, Jeff.

I think that blogs in fact do give us lots of great tools to do our traditional job better: We can be quick, say as much or as little as we need to, and of course connect to the broader conversation through outbound links and comments.

But I don’t think that blogs are as much of a revolution in the way that opinion and analysis is expressed as you and others may say. My watchword, as the editor ofBbits, is to work in the same voice long used by columnists in news pages, such as Floyd Norris, David Leonhardt, Joe Nocera and David Carr (not that I am putting my blogging on a par with any of them).

I can do that because in my new role I am no longer the beat reporter covering any companies. So I can step back and be a second voice on some technology topics.

Bits is a bit of a combination because it also includes posts from the rest of the reporters, who sometimes need to use a slightly different tone. The blog is less formal than the paper, and allows for first person writing. But for a beat reporter, it is a way to marshal curiosity and conversation. And again these forms of writing –news analysis pieces and reporters notebook collections–have long existed in our pages and others.