Gone, but Hardly Muted

On January 9, 2010April 18, 2024 By Glenn NelsonIn Hoops, Remembrances, Sports2 Comments

I went to as many games as a guy with a Seattle Times paper route could afford, but I knew them all because of Bob. Tommy Kron and Tom Meschery. Dick “the Duck” Synder and “Downtown” Freddy Brown. Spencer Haywood and Slick Watts. They all came to life via a voice that cannot be described as mellifluous as much as it was unwavering.

Print’s Comeback, Dressed in a Swim Suit

On December 9, 2009July 24, 2012 By Glenn NelsonIn Media Business11 Comments

It's no great revelation that the last decade's great technological advancements have conferred upon vast numbers of us a bad case of Internet ADD. I guess we should not have been surprised that, given tremendous and ever growing numbers of choices, that we human beings are choosing to sample them all -- and often not anything very thoroughly. If content were morsels, then we're all fat ladies on the couch with boxes of half-eaten chocolates arrayed before us.

The Media’s Blurred Line Between Leading and Cheerleading

On October 13, 2009July 24, 2012 By Glenn NelsonIn Media Business4 Comments

Sometimes coziness supplies perspective not otherwise obtained, but there has to be a line and sharing a bed seems to be a pretty clear one.

A post-P-I, PostGlobe Misstep

On April 28, 2009July 24, 2012 By Glenn NelsonIn Media Business2 Comments

The Seattle PostGlobe got off to such an inauspicious start that at least one other Web site produced in Seattle delayed its launch to avoid a similarly barren and embarrassing beginning. I didn’t jump on the PostGlobe effort the way I did the “new” SeattlePI.com because Hearst had the resources and time to plan a better release. Judging from the product, as well as discussions with those familiar with the way the site came about, it doesn’t appear things are going to change dramatically in the near future.