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  • Keller, Bill7195July 11, 2009

    Dear Bill Keller

    Bill Keller, Executive Editor of the New York Times, gave an interview to TIME magazine that showed a total lack of transparency, a fear that journalism itself was under attack, and a disturbing amount of the ‘old media’ mindset. This is a look at what he got wrong, and how to fix it. more...
  • newsflow3708March 19, 2009

    Newsflow: How Journalism Is and Will Be Generated

    After taking a look at Steve Johnson’s, co-founder of outside.in, speech from SXSW on the state of the news industry, I think this ideas are sound, but the details are too general. I’ve expanded on this thinking in a chart, Newsflow, to show the relationship between consumers, data, crowdsourcing and journalists. more...
  • 2106440696_74546aa1fc3455April 2, 2009

    You Can’t Make Abundancy Scarce

    I’m sick and tired of the mind-fuck that the ‘old media’ types try to pull on us. Charging for content, just because you decide it’s valuable is asinine. We’ve got a choice: charge for a great user experience, or charge for fantastic content. more...
  • Text is Not Embeddable: Canonical Content can be Linked Jeff Jarvis told me via a tweet that I was thinking too much like the old media. Good folks can disagree, but when Professor Jarvis pulls out that one, I figure any rational person should re-evaluate their thinking. Prof. Jarvis can be inflammatory, but he's more often right than wrong on this 'new media' thing.Our disagreement was sparked by The Gua…
  • 'new media' = disintermdiation? • Wikileaks has separated the finding and keeping anonymous sources.• inspires only followup journalism co: http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/07/wikileaks-and-continuity-what-if-we-had-a-news-outlet-exclusively-focused-on-follow-up-journalism/• so… what are the other roles of journalists that can be split off:• fact reporting: politifact?• analysis: • l…
  • Dear Dispora, Here's how to win • Google may not be good at social, but the data they've collected (and shared) is interesting. The basic point that people have many different social groups – that they don't necessarily want to intermix is sound.• Facebook has become a behemoth. That means no specialization – they have to be the general use case for everything, and that means th…
  • Discovery vs. Intent vs. Reccomendation Discovery: StumbleUpon, ThisNext, ChatRoulletteRandom, inspired, choices put in front of the user.• Low signal to noise, but offer the opportunity for a more powerful signal• discovery comes in 3 varieties     • social: comes in a sliding scale from people like you to just your friends curating     • crowdsourced via algorithm: what's popular …
  • Anonymous Comments • Blizzard decrees that real names must be used in it's forums: http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/07/06/1823202/Blizzard-To-Require-Real-First-and-Last-Names-For-Official-Forums Significant because gamer forums have a) heavy culture that is very reputation-based, b) the culture is traditionally identified by pseudonyms, c) many of the forums have one-off …
  • The Old Media is failing to do it's job The old media is failing for a number of reasons. They don't get the web, but far more importantly – they have failed to do their job.http://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/17461466200http://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/17463102551http://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/17444324269https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/17488542226https://twitter.com/pwtho…