Wilson , which posited that tolerance of small crimes leads inevitably to bigger ones. There has been much coverage lately of a new book by John D’Agata and Jim Fingal called The Lifespan of a Fact. It relates the years-long debate between D’Agata, an essayist, and Fingal, a fact checker, about whether artistry and accuracy can cohabit in the same nonfiction essay. Not surprisingly, perhaps, the book itself, as Craig Silverman says , “isn’t, you know, factual.”. Hence our attitudes about errors tend to be lax. But on the Internet, at least, errors are surprisingly resilient. But no. MORE >>

Will new media lead to brighter or bleaker career options? Mark W. Schaefer. couple of years ago when I started B2B Memes  it was my plan to focus exclusively on trade publishing. But as I looked around the blogosphere/Twitterverse, it didn’t take long to realize that the most enthusiastic and informed discussions about B2B communications involved not publishing, but marketing. For me, a journalist, this came as a jolt. In more than 20 years as a B2B editor, I worked frequently with both public relations and marketing people. Our goals were fundamentally different. Use your head. MORE >>

But how many corporations will see it only as another tool for trapping yet more leads into the ever-ravenous sales funnel? No writer can become good at the craft without being sensitive to language. But in other contexts, that vocational advantage can be a liability. This seems to be true of many journalists who resist the benefits of new media solely because of the language used to describe them. They’ve got it wrong, of course. But we should not be too quick to dismiss their reactions. They may be on to something. You want a nice, meaty sizzle.”. don’t think so. MORE >>

This sometimes leads to memorable embarrassments: As the Wall Street Journal points out , the Gingrich crowd shot first appeared on a website for the late liberal democrat Ted Kennedy, accompanied by the phrase “we are the democratic majority.” I’ve written recently about the need to use meaningful visuals to accompany your text. In passing, I mentioned the downsides of that frequent last resort, stock photography, but left it to an article by Heather Rubesch , elsewhere on the web, to provide details. Stock photo: Here be a dragon. Some vegans have been deeply offended by this practice. MORE >>

The reason for this, he said, is that “his magazines are most often the first point of contact leading to the sale of all the other services he is now selling.”. Writing on Foliomag.com earlier this month, blogger Josh Gordon spun a comment heard at the Folio: show into a bullish prediction for print magazines. Although the grounds for his optimism might be questioned, I’ll leave that to prophet of print doom Private Frazer and others. The comment that keyed Gordon’s column came from Kerry Smith, CEO of Red 7 Media (publisher of Folio: , by the way). MORE >>