At the London Free Press, Ian Gillespie warns of the hazards of the internet: Watching that 90-second video [here], it’s hard — no, make that impossible — to see or know exactly what’s going on. But that hasn’t stopped tens of thousands (by late yesterday afternoon, the video had been viewed more than 30,000 times [...]
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During the weekend I spent some time writing yet another criticism of old media protectionism. I called it, “Because You Wouldn’t Go to a ‘Citizen Prostitute’ for Sex, Would You?”… this is the tame version. What so many protectionists miss is that telling stories and getting to the bottom of things are basic human motives [...]
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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 05-14-2009
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In 2000, at the height of the dotcom hype, I had a startling realization: the internet sucked. It was slow, cluttered, ugly, unintuitive, full of spam, required a lot of troubleshooting, and it didn’t even do very much — at least not much more than I could do without it. Whatever the internet offered, it cost [...]
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by Brian on 03-15-2009
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Two good pieces in the last couple of days: one by Clay Shirky and the other by Steven Johnson. They both make the same basic point: much of the supposed innovation in recent decades meant to perpetuate the old business models rather than actually come to terms with emerging realities. Here’s Shirky: Revolutions create a curious [...]
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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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… has to be laid on a robust background of sensible, generative dialogue. I don’t just mean “peace talks,” but rather a wider, deeper understanding of societies and how they interact.
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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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Contrasting the Perpendicular with the Backwards
by OpenConceptual on 07-05-2009
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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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