Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Can traditional news organizations cope with a Craigslist media world? - Examiner.com
To paraphrase poet Robert Byrnes, what a business edge it is to be able to move out our own comfortable point of view and to take the perspective of "other."
I have one foot in the world of journalism and a virtual toehold in the world of Internet and the hidebound "haughtiness" (as Jeff Jarvis describes journos) of those in the news media regarding changes in their business model and in how people communicate in our society,is stunning to me. Though I run it into again and again, I always think, "how can such smart people be so blind to reality?"
Media Blogger, and writer (and colleague of mine) Robert Cox writes about this in very concrete terms here, noting that while you fiddle, Rome burns on. McLuhan always had to remind folks that he was only observing the way things were happening and not putting value judgments on the nature of the change.
Bob is teetering on the edge of becoming a journalist himself, but I hope he can maintain the ability to take a perspective and see things as the "PFKAA" or people formerly known as audience do. His observations are useful to those in the media.Robert Cox: Can traditional news organizations cope with a Craigslist media world? - Examiner.com
Monday, August 28, 2006
R.I.P. Peer-reviewed journals
NatureWired 14.09: START has gone to the wisdom of the crowds in vetting articles about science. What a fascinating idea and what a change just in my lifetime.
My early articles were submitted, read by experts, and then published after months had passed. I think this will have a postive effect on writing style.
Computer Envy
Yes, it is true. I love my Mac, but if it ran OSX, I would be an Alien user. Watch the video as the nearly slavering intern unpacks and describes what comes with his new Alien Aurora.Watch some soft computer porn.
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Citizen Media/journalism trends in blogosphere.
The ups and downs of "Citizen Media" and "Citizen Journalism" in the blogosphere:
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Thursday, August 24, 2006
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Now playing on the Net: War propagand
Video-sharing sites allow combatants on both sides to tell their story, much to the chagrin of the Pentagon. Read Warren Ellis's Transmetropolitan and see if you see any parallels, not so much in the main story as in the little side things going on in the imagined world of the future with feeds and such.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
The Internet is a factor in Politics -- Are you surprised?
This research brief gives some dimension to how blogs and internet in general is transforming American politics.
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Sunday, August 20, 2006
Who invented the TV?
From the "Modern Media Milestones" category. Let us note the birthday of Philo Farnsworth, inventor of TV who was scooped by Gatesian businessmen of this time out of getting credit for inventing it.
Imagine driving your tractor and plowing lonely western wheat fields. What would you think about? Farnsworth was thinking of transmitting pictures electronically. Somehow the traversing the rows mde him realize that scanning the image line by line and refreshing it every other line would do the trick.
If you are a tech nerd, you might enjoyEmpire of the Air a history of the lives of the inventors of television. It is very detailed and has great images and interviews. It is just too detailed for the casual viewer, IMHO.Who invented the TV?
Friday, August 18, 2006
Gaming Insider » Blog Archive » Breaking The Fourth Wall
Gaming Insider » Blog Archive » Breaking The Fourth Wall: "But in a game like “DSII,” which for the most part plays it pretty straight, a pitch like this one is totally out of place. Marketing in games, just like marketing everywhere else, is all a matter of execution. Do it right, and your players won’t mind; do it wrong, and get put in the “do not play” folder."
Thursday, August 17, 2006
A judgement for the people in our democracy.
Federal judge orders halt to NSA spy program | Tech News on ZDNet: "'There are no hereditary kings in America and no powers not created by the Constitution,' the judge wrote, dismissing the Bush administration's argument that the warrantless program falls within the president's inherent wartime powers as commander in chief."
Federal judge orders halt to NSA spy program
The warrantless Internet and telephone surveillance program authorized by the Bush administration violates the U.S. Constitution and must cease immediately, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
Justice moves slowly but maybe in the right direction.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
C\Net featuring audio commentaries.
Here is a provocative story about free news online and what that is doing to the economic models of old-time paper publishing. It is undermining it, or turning it on its head. Anyway, in Europe already, the newsprint on the doorstep is now just a sort of placeholder or reminder to check online for the "real thing."
Advertising trends, favoring online ads, suggest that is the way of the future. This link is for a podcast. You can listen to the thing from C|Net while you are on your computer, or take it with you in MP3 form.
Sunday, August 13, 2006
RIAA gets push-back from EFF, ACLU, American Association of Law Libraries
and several others. This site provides some help for laymen in understanding the issues and role of the Amicus brief. It is good that there is someone speaking out against the RIAA tactic of "we have money, we will sue you into submission" strategy.
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What your searches can reveal
The revelation that AOL put user search data online, albeit for academic research purposes has caused ripples in the blogosphere and elsewhere. This story from Slate shows how tools are out there to search any searches. Like the "garbageology" that briefly was a craze, this guy looked for types of searches, and comes up with a typology of searches. And, yes, porn searching is one the big categories.
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Thursday, August 10, 2006
Blogs the same as any information -- think about it first...
Amy Gahran writes about whether blogs are "risky" sources for journalists in her recent column for poynter.
She concludes, as do most of her commenting contributors and as I would conclude, that using a blog is the same as using other information. You have to verify the facts. Most journalist use blogs for "leads, quotes, or angles."
She concludes, as do most of her commenting contributors and as I would conclude, that using a blog is the same as using other information. You have to verify the facts. Most journalist use blogs for "leads, quotes, or angles."
Teen Filmmaker revisits "Two Dolls" experiment
Watch this short movie by a teen filmmaker. She interviews black girls about beauty.
She includes some footage of black children with two dolls -- one white and one black--that repeats Kenneth Clark's experiment that influenced the Supreme Court's Brown vs. Bd. of Education decision on school segregation.
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What is the deal with municipal wifii? This story lays it out.
Here is a good example of technical reporting. It gets the technology right and clear enough to understand it. It includes the context of the issue -- the social/philosophical reasons for cheap routers, the origin of this particular product, the development of the the movement in urban areas toward government involvement in WiFi, and the telcos opposition.
Whether you know lots or nothing about muniwifi, this is worth reading. Small Business Feature Article | US
Wednesday, August 09, 2006
News photography and Photoshop - Reuters Newsblogs
Here is a good piece from Reuters about what tools and imaging changes have been practiced and allowed at Reuters in the face of the Lebanese photojournalist who was doctoring images and has had his images pulled from Reuters. News photography and Photoshop - Reuters Newsblogs
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
Articles, Advice, Tools and Real Estate Resources- taxidermy-for-city-dwellers - AOL Real Estate
From the "kind of creepy" department:Articles, Advice, Tools and Real Estate Resources- taxidermy-for-city-dwellers - AOL Real Estate
Disclaimer: I have a stuffed wood teal and my kid bought me a jackalope which is pretty cool.
Monday, August 07, 2006
What numbers should journalists have at their finger tips?
Tom Johnson from the NICAR listserv is developing a list of
"THE 25 NUMBERS EVERY JOURNALIST SHOULD KNOW" and I would love to get any suggestions you have. I think the percent of broadband for the USA and for the area you live in should be on the list.
Any suggestions?
*) The world's population
*) Your nation's population and as a percent of the world
*) Your state/province/district population and as a percent of your nation
*) Your city's pop. and as a percent of your state/province/district
*) The percent of change for all of the above in the past 10 years
*) The current budget of your nation/state/province/district/city government
*) The sub-sections of the above budgets for health, education, public safety, infrastructure and their relative percentages
*) The world's live birth rates and same for your nation/state/province/district/city
*) Average life expectancy for males and females in your nation/state/province/district/city
*) Average family size for your nation/state/province/district/city
*) Per capita and per family annual income for your nation/state/province/district/city
*) Average years of education for males and females in the world and your nation/state/province/district/city
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
Inside Higher Ed :: 'Engagement' and the Underprepared
Engaging students -- that means project-based work, hands-on work, small classes with more faculty-student contacts and lots of opptys to socialize with faculty outside the classroom (ah, the actual research of my dissertation...) proves itself, especially with under-prepared students. Ernie Pascarella, one of the cited researchers, was my dissertation chair.
Inside Higher Ed :: 'Engagement' and the Underprepared: "Both measured the effects of participating in certain kinds of educational activities — collaboration with other students, significant faculty-student contact, etc. — that are generally thought to “engage” students in the learning process."
Jay Rosen Plans Open-Source Journalism with NewAssignment.Net :: Corante Media Hub
Tish gives a good summary of the NewAssignment.net project that includes links to several analysts who are talking about it. Jay Rosen Plans Open-Source Journalism with NewAssignment.Net :: Corante Media Hub
Jay Rosen has set out his plan and created his own Q & A about how open source investigative reporting will work.
Cyworld vs. MySpace
A discussion of the upcoming "fight" but this one includes discussion of the origins of Cyworld. I haven't come across the story of the student creators of Cyworld before.International Business Times - Cyworld Lands on Myspace
With teenagers, print may not even enter the mix.
When these teens grow up, they won't be looking for dead tree media, IMHO.Advertising Age - MediaWorks - Teen Mags? So Five Years Ago
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