Friday, April 25th, 2008
I'm completely baffled whenever I read stories about the changing media landscape and layoffs. The world has very clearly changed dramatically in terms of media, consumption, creation and audience. We know this. We know that it's left the realm of the technophiles and moved into a more mainstream ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
I've been off for a few days, traveling to San Francisco for the book. While I was there, I had the opportunity to meet with Howard Rheingold, who is currently lecturing on technology and journalism at both Stanford and Berkeley. We had a rather illuminating talk.
He's working on a project ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
The relationship between the Web and print staffs (and yes, it's still plural) is always going to be contentious, at least until the print folks realize that the king is dead. Long live the king. I'm reminded of this while perusing American Journalism Review, reading this article, Enough is ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
The wonderful folks at Ars get a double-dip today. My friend Chris forwarded me this response to Eric Alterman's piece in the New Yorker (which I discussed earlier.)
The response comes in reference to Alterman's view that while social media allows for greater communication, first-rate journalism is -- or will -- ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
The traditional media is in serious financial trouble. Classified advertising is gone (and it's not coming back). Local advertising is still doing okay, but advertising spending has level off throughout the last two years. I'm sure that's only going to get better as we sink into a recession.
It's dire straits ...
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
Most of the people I'll blog about are technologists of some sort, or people who are using social media in ways that can be replicated in the news room.
This is not one of those people. This is one of the kings of technology journalism: Steven Levy.
My bias in this particular ...
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Jane McGonigal is one of the pre-eminent alternative reality game (ARG) designers. She was the lead designer on i love bees, the first popular ARG which was the marketing tool that helped launch Halo 2.
She is a Research Affiliate at the Institute for the Future, where she studies the science ...
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
Since this is a very SXSW opening post, it seemed appropriate to introduce you to the man behind the most important technology/geek conference of the year. SXSW Interactive started 15 years ago, six years after the Music Conference and Festival took off.
Initially, there weren't many folks here, but the event ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
I'm oftentimes asked what classes and skills I think a modern journalist should have if they want to stay competitive in the world.
That's a tricky question. My alma mater, the Graduate School of Journalism at Berkeley, runs the Knight Digital Media Center for mid-career training. While I've never attended, I ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
I've been a journalist since 1995, although I could easily say that I've done the job of a journalist my whole life.
I was a curious kid. Some say obnoxiously curious. And that hasn't slowed down as I've gotten older. On more than one occasion, I've been told that having a ...
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