In abundance as in scarcity, news is about trust
It’s strange how the abundance of news shares some territory with the scarcity of news. # Paolo Bacigalupi’s description of “news that you can trust” in a dictatorship parallels what’s happening with...
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XKCD VOX POPULI
The punchline in XKCD’s comics appears most of the time in a mouseover text that I have made apparent here. View the original. # #
View ArticleJeff Jarvis on news media and collaboration
Jeff Jarvis makes suggestions to news media: # …the best thing they could do is to enable and protect the voice of the public. They could curate, train, promote, and collaborate with new people using...
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Cathy Horyn tells how readers contribute to her blog
We read so often that readers’ comments are useless that it’s still worth highlighting when a journalist appreciates the contribution of her readers. # “these are the kinds of comments and the kind of...
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The Displacive Fallacy: new media don’t replace old media
From a Tweet by @timoreilly: # Lovely piece about how technologies don’t just replace one another. Search for 3rd occurrence of “Displacive Fallacy” http://bit.ly/cJSAlb # In high-technology societies,...
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I became that which watched broadcast television
I can remember seeing the emergence of broadcast television, but I can’t tell what it did to us because I became that which watched broadcast television. # William Gibson the Paris Review 197 # [1981]...
View ArticleOn Twitter and Writing
@GreatDismal William Gibson # Twitter for me is a casual conversational form, largely offhand by nature. Unrehearsed speech as opposed to writing. @GreatDismal William Gibson # “Writing”, for me, is a...
View Article4 Ideas For Practicing A Journalism Of Collaboration
Last Saturday, I have lead a conversation at MediaCamp Montreal. The title of the topic is the longest I have ever written: # How to begin today doing Web journalism with your readers using just your...
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Welcome to MIXMÉDIAS Montreal on May 17th
I am thrilled to personally invite you to the MIXMÉDIAS Conference that will be held in Montréal on May 17th, 2012. This will be one of the most exciting and lucrative professional days this spring and...
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