This morning I realized I was a little unfair to Glen Pearson in my last post at BrianFrank.ca. I excerpted a bit of his blog as a jumping-off point, but the rest of my post didn’t really have much to do with what he wrote. I kind of left it hanging there as if he didn’t [...]
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David Warsh at Economic Principals has a very complimentary piece this week about Mark Thoma’s Economist’s View: Economist’s View is a lightly-edited aggregation of items from around the Web – newspaper columns and blog posts mostly, plus the occasional podcast or video, continually updated throughout the day and augmented periodically by Thoma’s own commentary, all [...]
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by Brian on 05-16-2009
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Above all the claims about the need to save journalism, about it being essential to our society, etc, this fact seems to be missed: the more essential journalism is supposed to be, the more continuously prevalent it should appear throughout history. How much historical continuity is there? Where did journalism really come from? What is [...]
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This is kind of an barely coherent omnibus post full of points I’ve been meaning to make about social media here in London Ontario. I was kicked into doing this when I noticed I missed a couple of good posts on the subject from Titus Ferguson recently (now that I’ve figured out that Titus courteously doesn’t [...]
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It’s becoming apparent that my video persona is incurably idiotic – perhaps to compensate for the over-seriousness of my writing… Or maybe it’s simply the idiocy of my non-writing persona (i.e. the real me). MPG
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I have other things I should be working on but it’s impossible to resist getting into this discussion. The catalyst of the conversation is CTVglobemedia’s decision to cancel the A Morning show from the lineups of A Channels nationwide. In London that decision carried with it 48 jobs from the station (and this comes hot on the [...]
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I highly recommend the current issue of The Atlantic. I went out and bought it yesterday morning. Yes: bought… It has me thinking about magazines, why I like them so much (especially ambitiously intellectual magazines like The Atlantic) and what role publications like this will have in the future — or more specifically, how they will manage to adapt [...]
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Not just “in” London, but for London — that seems to be the underlying purpose of Dan Brown’s “challenge to London bloggers“: I’m challenging London bloggers to do their own original reporting. [...] If you believe, as I do, that this city deserves excellent journalism, it’s time to lead by example. I think we’ll all be better for [...]
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Following up yesterday’s post … I was watching this great panel on new media models featuring Jeff Jarvis, Tyler Brulé, Carolyn McCall, and Michael Arrington, when I came to a realization: what the hell do I care if media companies never figure out how to make money online? I’ve been thinking semi-seriously (reading a lot and keeping [...]
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Here’s a fascinating and invigorating idea from Jeff Bercovici, Portfolio‘s media blogger: [Imagine that] as you browse FT.com, you have a small status bar at the bottom of your screen, akin to the “life bar” in first-person shooter games that shows you how healthy or injured your character is. In this case, the status bar [...]
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As pointed out in the last post, some members of the current generation of news brass aren’t managing to see the future of their business because their vision is obscured by the conventional newsroom lens. They only see the competition that’s closest to their own conventions, but the range of threats they need to recognize are much more diffuse. Here [...]
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I like newspapers. I used to love newspapers, but we’re growing apart — farther apart every day. While I don’t make a conscious effort to pick up the paper anymore, I still read a lot online and I do my best to refer other people to important or interesting articles. And even when I’m advocating progress away [...]
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The Best Disinfectant
by OpenConceptual on 07-14-2009
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This morning I realized I was a little unfair to Glen Pearson in my last post at BrianFrank.ca. I excerpted a bit of his blog as a jumping-off point, but the rest of my post didn’t really have much to do with what he wrote. I kind of left it hanging there as if he didn’t [...]
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