Archive for the ‘Issues’ Category
Saturday, May 10th, 2008
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I've been asked to speak at several events in the last year, discussing how technology is reshaping the media landscape.
One recurring meme in my talks is this: social media has changed the expectations of many people in terms of media, and if news organizations don't adopt ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
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I've been threatening to review Joe Trippi's book about his role with the Howard Dean campaign in 2004, the campaign that tapped into the social media networks emerging online to not only raise more money than a candidate had ever done before but also to galvanize voters by ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
Since games are on my mind these days, I've been keeping my eyes out for innovative ways that people are using Alternate Reality Game-like structures to solve problems.
The more I read about them, the more excited I am about the possibility of news organizations incorporating this community-styled project to engage ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
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One of the rather disturbing trends I have experienced in my talks with newspaper folks is there insistence on latching on to the latest trend.
It's easy to get caught up in the mix. After all, new technologies roll out every day and if you're not careful, you can ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Normally, I try to add something to the conversation whenever I read articles and speeches, but there are times when I think it's best left to the words of those delivering the message.
This is one of those cases.
John S. Carroll is the former editor of several papers and he delivered ...
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
As I work on the book, I'll be interviewing loads of people -- if all goes well. Along the way, there is absolutely no chance that I am going to get every fact correct. I know it. It's impossible no matter how hard I try.
So I'm launching experiment number three ...
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
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The Zogby International polling group surveyed newspaper editors and found that most editors believe the newspaper of the future will have three features:
they will be free
they will have more opinion
they will include more comments
The report goes on to say that 30 percent of those editors survey wanted to ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
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I've been toying around with social media all day today, discussing the future of media with lots of smart friends -- particularly those who think that I'm a little half-cocked and off my rocker when it comes to the future of journalism.
It's good, mostly. It certainly ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
After much debate and discussion, I've decided that the end of the book needs to be an outline for what a modern newspaper should look like. I've been kludging through these ideas with industry folks and tech mavens so I don't expect this will be my final draft on the ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
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Part of my lectures on the future of media are spent railing against newspapers companies inability to innovate in publishing, the very field they are the so-called experts in.
How, I ask, could a newspaper not have invented one of the first blogging content management system? These are simple ...
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