Journalists, George Bernard Shaw once said, are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization. How odd, given the profession's un-equaled reputation for narcissism, that Shaw's observation holds true even when the collapsing "civilization" is their own.
In the first three years of the Bush administration, the United States dropped from 4th to 13th place in global rankings of broadband Internet usage," writes Thomas Bleha in Foreign Affairs. Tim pulls the money quotes; of Japan, S. Korea and China America: broadband backwater
The Blog, The Press, The Media: Business is Like so not Interested in Digital Migration
News affect us constantly. They are both the mirror of the present and the building blocks of the future. Every hour, every day, all the time ... Some news such the one coming from Darwin is all about dead past ...
We've had a near-continuous stream of blog-hype in our faces for quite some time. Both online and traditional media just can’t seem to dish up enough of it. But if you, like me, have about had your fill, you'll agree it’s time to do a reality check. In all the cacophony of this breathless blog exhuberance, there remains one largely unspoken truth: Business just isn’t jumping up and down about it.
• Enough With the Blogging Already [A good one is Blogger.com It's a blog, blog world ; Blogging About the Job? Proceed at Own Risk Infection or Information ]
• · Blog-Linked Firings Prompt Calls for Better Policies ; Czech out Corporate Blog List
• · · The White House and its supporters, he writes, are taking aggressive action: preventing journalists from doing their job by withholding routine information; deliberately releasing deceptive information on a regular basis; bribing friendly journalists to report the news in a favorable context; producing their own 'news reports' and distributing these free of charge to resource-starved broadcasters; creating and crediting their own political activists as 'journalists' working for partisan operations masquerading as news organizations. WH attack on press involves secrecy, lies and fake news ; Bloggers are like so not interested: Enough of Online Features
• · · · David Weinberger: Blogs don't need mainstream media. Mainstream media needs blogs; I can't begin to imagine how hard MSM'ing about blogs is. It reminds me of the line from Jon Stewart on his show about blogging, "And that's CNN reporting on why blogs are much more interesting than CNN. Joi Ito
• · · · · Randy coppers in New Zealand waste so much time surfing for porn while on the job that fully 20 per cent of police computer system capacity is devoted to storing the images, an official audit has revealed. Computer coppers sheepish on capture; via Barista
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