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LINKS | Generation Y Takes on the World

Things our grandkids will never understand.

Last week has lead me this generalization: Generation Y fundamentally understands the internet, and therefore the current state of the world, in a way that older generations just never will.

It's a generalization and not a maxim, because as folks like John Bryne, Bryan Murley, and even Steve Jobs remind me that us youngin's aren't the only ones who get it, we're just in the majority.

These are my links for March 21st through March 27th:

Generation Y, X, BB…

  • The following are excerpts from #editorchat from John Bryne of Business Week. I'm throughly impressed with his insight. It gives me much hope for the older generations.

“There will be many Born to the Web enterprises over the next few years that will teach the mainstream media a thing or two. #editorchat”- Twitter / JOHNABYRNE
“They think that some day online advertising will offset the print decline and help support a broken print model. #editorchat”- Twitter / JOHNABYRNE
“Online readers also earn more than print readers and are more likely to be female. #editorchat”- Twitter / JOHNABYRNE
“Of our total audience, about 38% are online only; 31% magazine only & 31% are both online and print. #editorchat”- Twitter / JOHNABYRNE
“There’s overlap in our print and online readers3 but generally our online users are 10 years younger and more highly educated. #editorchat”- Twitter / JOHNABYRNE

  • On the other hand, the following is a tweet sent by a Syracuse University student during a lecture by Ryan Sholin on 'new media.'

    “@ryansholin I’d prefer that we have fewer citizen journalists. You don’t see me trying to be a citizen software engineer or citizen waiter.”-
    Twitter / benjgc

    Put this up there as Generation Y not “getting it”

    • 10 Ways To Reinvent Your Newsroom Right NowThis is a great presentation. Details some really simple and some more complex things that you could start doing today if you got your newsroom excited about them.

    View more presentations from sjcobrien.
  • 2020 vision: What's next for news: A fantastic bit of futurism on the journalism business.
    • Industry will shrink/re-make itself
    • The semantic web plays a huge role and datamining becomes key
    • Collaboration among local news sites for ads and info
    • New business models like endowments, non-profit, etc
    • copyright law needs a re-think
    • The idealist unbiased journalist dies, starts reporting for interest groups
  • Newspaper ownership and the fourth generation syndrome | yelvington.com: Steve argues that the current generation of newspaper owners are more interested in spending money than their own business.

  • “When I got my first computer back in 1984 or 1985, it was a Mac and there was this program called Hypercard by Bill Atkinson. In a very basic way, Hypercard teaches you the basics of how computers [and software development on them] work.” Being who I am, this obviously struck a chord. I wondered if he has hit upon a simple truth about the evolution of computers… and their users. Early on, the software and tools that were available to users were more about working with the capabilities of the machine than what you could get done with it. That lead to every computer user innately understanding the architecture of the machine. Of course, it also lead to scaring many people off, but for those that stuck around, to this day we all have a very true understanding of the what, why and — most importantly — how a computer can (and can’t!) do the things it does.”- At SXSW Michael Penn Talks iTunes, Film, Music, and Hypercard! - The Mac Observer

  • Newspaper Execs: Still Sleepless in Seattle - ClickZ: Vin speaks from personal experience about the staff and history of the Seattle PI. In Vin’s opinion, the staff is top notch, but the Hearst Corp. has shackled them.

Journalism Business Models

Just plain nifty/WTF?

For the Photogs in the house…


Amy O'Leary is a multimedia producer at the Times. This interview was taped on March 22, 2009, at the Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism, where O'Leary was a speaker.

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Links for January 6th

These are my links for January 6th from 00:38 to 02:52:

  • Blogging, a new journalistic genre ? | Monday Note - Pretty strong argument that blogs are a great new form of journalism.
    Problem: they don't make money. Adverts don't value them and they just don't generate the pageviews an article does.
  • What is literacy? BuzzMachine - If online journalism is expected to work, the audience must be able to do the following:
    Media literacy, then, must embrace all those activities and skills, not just reading but:
    * knowing how to focus on a need for information and express that by crafting a query to find an answer;
    * knowing how to judge the relevance and reliability of sources - including the PageRank-like skill of judging sources on sources;
    * knowing how to create (and remix) content across all media types;
    * knowing how to collaborate;
    * understanding the impact of facts on perspective and perspective on opinion;
    * understanding the impact of identity and anonymity;
    * understanding the relationship of pieces of information that make up a larger story via links;
    * understanding how to make and find corrections
  • On The Media: Transcript of "You Are What You Is" (November 28, 2008) - Jeff Jarvis makes a good case for convergence. The media is now a singular: no longer do jounos choose, video, print, photo, whatever. We're cross-medium.
  • Twelve months of top journalism blog posts in 2008 Christopher Wink - Title says it all. It's a pretty darn good list of the top posts of last year. Worth reading through the list at least.
  • HuffPo Worth $200M? Em, More Like $2M - Business news | Newser - Sounds like the $25 million dollar investment that HuffPo just got may have inflated the value of the blogging newspaper. Instead of the $100-$200 million the investment was based on, it might be worth closer to $2 million. Ouch.
  • Reflections of a Newsosaur: Newspaper share value fell $64B in '08 - A look at the stock prices and market cap. of the major newspapers in 2008.
  • The Turning Gate / TTG iPhone Portfolio - iphone friendly photo gallery direct from Lightroom: Cool!
  • Lee Enterprises: A poster child for the ownership crisis | yelvington.com - Steve Yelvington breaks down the economic crisis for newspapers:
    1. The internet means long term changes, newspapers weren't ready.
    2. Global economic crisis = less adverts = less income.
    3. Newspapers borrowed when the borrowing was good, and are in the same place as everyone else in this economic crisis. They debt they can't pay back.

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