It's one thing to react to the news of the day, but too often columnists forget they are also part of the media Inside the political spin machine [Tim Dunlop via Hugh Martin]
The Blog, The Press, The Media: Dotcom Bloom: Content is King
Passionate new media guru - Robin Good explains how passionate amateurs, empowered by technology and linked to one another, are reshaping business, politics, science, and culture Google Wallet Set To Become The New PayPal
As access to powerful and low-cost new media, electronics and digital technologies becomes easier and easier thanks to innovation and lower and lower prices, creating value, products and good content is not anymore the exclusive property of large corporations, or financially equipped teams of investors. Amateurs professionals are figuring out in more than one way, that they too can be effective and even sustainable products creators without needing to tap into large budgets, expensive machinery and highly paid professionals.
When search engines can change the lives of pastry chefs, a technology transformation clearly is under way. These online guides were once merely the means to a destination, the robots that could quickly fetch a site from the Web haystack.
• Change Agents With The Balls: The Rise Of The Amateur Professionals, Prosumers, Pro-Ams [In the USA, the problem is that journalism enrollments are mushrooming and enrollment in science and engineering is dangerously low. Wake up, Prof. Philip Meyer -- You're Dreaming ; Weblog Watch started in response to criticisms of weblogs as vapid, self-obsessed hot air We stick together via Antony ]
• · The web seems poised to blossom with stand-alone news sites Dotcom Bloom; The Culture of Connectivity and Immediacy How "search" is redefining the Web — and our lives ; Major social culture changes are occurring as the impact of ubiquitous computing and connectivity become so everyday, so normal, as to be perceived as commonplace, standard, old hat History Repeats Itself (just a little faster each time)
• · · Bloggers have stormed the figurative media Bastille, critiquing existing news stories from a hundred thousand angles, fact-checking through Google from their home computers, even forging their own brand of coverage that is quickly gaining legitimacy Journalism as traditionally practiced has been a lecture, almost completely one-way, from journalists to readers ; Eleventh Annual Euro RSCG Magnet and Columbia University Survey of Media Finds More than Half of Journalists Use Blogs Despite Being Unconvinced of their Credibility
• · · · Chris Hanson has an interesting article in the print edition of today's Washington Post that examines the reasons for the recent Newsweek debacle. Newsweek's mistake is only the latest example of a deepening crisis in American journalism. Too often these days, reporters and editors seem unable or unwilling to perform a basic duty - sifting rumor from fact, salesmanship from independent analysis - and instead become conduits for falsehoods, half-truths, and propaganda Can Bloggers Scoop the MSM? ; Knowledge From the People, For the People; Hyundai Perks of the job: a half-price car
• · · · · What Do They Want? ; When a blogger does an original Q&A or piece of reporting on his or her blog they needed to be applauded ....read...and CLONED ; Dad Talk : A Dad Overcomes Male Post Partum Depression; Daddy Talk Down With Male PPD: Do You Know Me?
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