Will Bunch: Inquirer editor says you’re going to pay for this
Joshua-Michéle Ross : Stop Giving the Newspapers Your Advice – They Don’t Need It
Realistic views I heard at the norgs unconference maybe finally taking hold.
Category Archives: Journalism, norgs, the future of news
Game teaches teenagers about dangerous social media use
Smokescreen is a privacy and data sharing awareness game for teenagers. via Boing Boing.
A perfect lesson in what our acceptance of soundbites can cause
Shelley Powers was outright slandered by taking a sentence out of context from a comment she made: link.
This is part of the game of modern politics and modern media. The lack of apology from those involved is pretty damning, because no one wants to admit they participate in it or are part of the larger problem. A larger problem that is leading all of us to be less informed about the world around us when there is so much media available.
We have a responsibility one another. When you write from a position of trust – don’t abuse it.
Questions regarding Inquirer and Daily News plans to charge readers of their websites
I was contacted by someone who teaches journalism for my thoughts on Daily News and Inquirer plans to charge readers – how they might affect local bloggers who often link, comment, or refer to the news from those online publications. He asked three difficult questions.
- Q: Do you plan to pay for your local Philadelphia online news?
A: It counts upon how much it costs and what if offers. I hope they pursue a NPR-like membership model instead of putting up a paywall. In the end, it counts upon the value offered. - Q: Will you link to articles that your readers will have to pay to read?
A: Not if behind a paywall. I will find free alternatives to link to (KYW1060, TV station websites,
national news sources, and especially local independent sources). Q: Any general reactions to how you think this will affect what you do and what other local bloggers do?
A: Local blogging will not be effected all that much believe it or not. There are many free alternatives. What is of concern is that we are becoming less and less informed as a people. At a time when we need *more* exposure to the work of the the Inquirer and Daily News, there will be less. That’s tragic.
I have to add that my hopes are that the papers remain local and that the bankruptcy proceedings are favorable to the local ownership. While I may disagree on paywalls, I feel that the news organizations within the papers stand the best chance at survival that way.
Quotable – out of context – but worth it – on maybe why Bill O’Reilly is more popular than Bill Moyers?
Alan Kay on comp.lang.smalltalk.squeak.beginners: Re: Smalltalk Data Structures and Algorithms:
What is wrong? Why is mere opinion so dominating discussions held on the easiest medium there has ever been that can provide substantiations with just a little curiosity and work? Is the world completely reverting to an oral culture of assertions held around an electronic campfire?
That quote is going to be passed around a lot.
It’s a one paragraph penetrating question into why the Bill O’Reilly’s of the world have so much more popularity then those who pursue the fact based journalism that a Bill Moyers pursues.
BTW – Howard Rheingold’s recent post at SFGate, “Crap Detection 101” is highly recommended (via Rebecca Blood).
How does news spread?
Researchers at Cornell have published a paper titled “Meme-tracking and the Dynamics of the News Cycle” that I need to dig into. They’ve published visualizations of their research at a NYTimes piece on the study says, “This is a landmark piece of work on the flow of news through the world… And the study shows how Web-scale analytics can serve as powerful sociological laboratories.”
Chris Anderson, who in May presented his own research into this to the International Communications Association (ICA) posted his reflections on that research and how it relates: Another Perspective on How “News” “Diffuses”: The Francisville 4 from Inside the Newsroom
Scott Rosenberg shares some criticisms in: “Newsies beat bloggers? Some caveats on memetracker study”.
Nieman Journalism Lab’s Zachary M. Seward summarizes it up: In the news cycle, memes spread more like a heartbeat than a virus.
Terrific happenings in the governing and citizen related Web
Tim O’Reilly: Radical Transparency: The New Federal IT Dashboard (and check out the site itself at it.usaspending.gov)
Data.gov iteratively grows from 47 to 100,000 data feeds (source Atrios)
EveryBlock blog: EveryBlock source code released
Tim Bray: “Hello World” for Open Data – Tim Bray reviews, and is inspired by, happenings in Vancover.
And locally SEPTA has started to work with Google to help riders plan trips online
A huge round of thanks needs to go to the folks behind iSepta for showing just what is possible.
This and more was discussed at this year’s Personal Democracy Forum – which I missed, which I hopefully won’t next year. Sounds like it was a great event.
Related:
O’Reilly radar: John Geraci: The Four Pillars of an Open Civic System
Ignite Philly 2: Geoff DiMassi and Paul Wright “Open Source Philadelphia”
Challenging conventional wisdom about the direction of media
New Yorker: Malcolm Gladwell: Priced to Sell – a scathing review of Wired’s Chris Anderson’s new book “Free: The Future of a Radical Price” and the concepts promoted within.
NYTimes: Keeping News of Kidnapping Off Wikipedia – the NYTimes coordinated with Wikipedia staff to keep a factual event from appearing on the service.
Say Everything: Chapter One: Putting Everything Out There [Justin Hall]: a review of Justin Hall’s history and his efforts on the Web. How they laid the foundation for all that came later.
NiemanJournalismLab: Four crowdsourcing lessons from the Guardian’s (spectacular) expenses-scandal experiment
Scott Rosenberg: Salon.com IPO: It was ten years ago today
Chris Anderson (not Wired’s): We’ve Been Living Through a Twitter Revolution for the Last 10 Years
A Blogging History Worth Reading?
I’m really looking forward to reading Scott Rosenberg’s “Say Everything”.
I’m sure “Say Everything” will be a book I can share with others (which I do with “Dreaming in Code”) to provide them insight into why I do some of the things I do and why I get so damn passionate about them.
Writing a book on blogging’s history and how it related to the Web, Internet, and society is a difficult task. Based upon excerpts I’ve read so far, Rafe’s review of the first half, and reading his fantastic “Dreaming in Code”, I know this book is going to be terrific and insightful.
Speaking of blogging, I got to agree with Rafe – the most awesome thing about blogging *is* “corresponding with so many of the people I met through blogging back then here, on Twitter, and elsewhere.”.
Absolutely.
Thank you Web.
“Amusing Ourselves to Death” a comic by Stuart McMillen
Thought provoking, conversation starting, and probably controversial counting upon who you are, check out the whole single page comic.