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June 30, 2010
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June 28, 2010
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What we saw was this: 1) Much of the Beltway establishment was blindsided by Michael Hastings’s scoop, an impressive feat of journalism by a Washington outsider who seemed to know more about what was going on in Washington than most insiders did; 2) Obama’s failure to fire McChrystal months ago for both his arrogance and incompetence was a grievous mistake that illuminates a wider management shortfall at the White House; 3) The present strategy has produced no progress in this nearly nine-year-old war,
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June 25, 2010
25 Jun 2010
Hitch Quotes:
"I still make sure to go at least once every year to a country where things cannot be taken for granted and where there is either too much law and order or too little"
"There are certain things you can't get second-hand and one of those is the smell of the reality. The actual effect on the nostrils is very important"
Christopher Hitchens. Sage advice.
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It is near-impossible for a company to win the battle for hearts and minds when trouble strikes; the best it can do is not lose too disastrously. Mr Hayward fought solo and ended, as Charlie Rich once sang, with “not a friend around to help me”.
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"When you're big you're not cute anymore"
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June 23, 2010
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Images from the world's most failed states.
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"If your job is to make the case, win the negotiations, decide what the community should do, or maintain morale, that is one kind of work. If your job is to tell people what's going on, and equip them to participate without illusions, that is a very different kind of work."
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June 22, 2010
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Within two weeks, the French newspaper Le Monde will run out of cash. By this Monday at noon, candidates to the takeover of the most prestigious French daily will have disclosed their offers. By June 28, the staff will vote and make the final decision for the fate of the 66 years-old paper.
More importantly, the newspaper’s independence will be under severe pressure.
three companies, who control the bulk of the UK mobile phone market, are testing technology which would enable them to provide broadcast TV over their existing 3G mobile phone spectrum, without clogging up their networks, which are being used by smartphone users to access the web and send emails.
Doc Searls - "stop using the word content" Via Adriana Lukas
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CNN drops AP
CNN has dropped the Associated Press picture agency in a move which may have ramifications across the rest of the broadcast news industry. The AP, with Reuters, provide the backbone of breaking news and event coverage for all broadcasters interested in international news. There are three things going on here:
- basic costs. CNN dropped Reuters three years ago on cost grounds and reinvested part of what they saved in their own newsgathering. They say they will do the same here. (Although CNN have since renewed a partnership with Reuters for breaking news).
- Which allows them to develop more distinctive and original journalism of their own, hopefully distinguishing themselves from other news networks through entrepreneurial journalism
- which they are free to exploit across multi-media platforms without paying an additional premium to the agencies every time they want to launch a new online or mobile service.
Costs, increasing original content, control over rights.
"It is important for CNN to continue to grow," Jim Walton , president of CNN Worldwide, told the Financial Times. "In this day and age of aggregation, we felt that we wanted to continue to push our own distinct reporting. We made a decision we would invest in ourselves."
This ought to be a great time for the agencies as costs force news organisations to cut their own international news operations they should be more dependant on AP and Reuters. But it seems CNN are drawing a line on agency costs and making the strategic move to produce and exploit their own material more.
They also announced "CNN Share" - an internal operation to move their own material around the CNN operation more effectively. News Corporation recently announced something similar.
(Investing in original and distinctive journalism and exploiting and sharing your own material across programmes and platforms better. The BBC once had a News Director who argued for both those things about 7 years ago. Who was that guy?)
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June 20, 2010
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Pew gathered a year’s worth of data on the top stories discussed and linked to on blogs and seven months’ worth of comparable data from Twitter. The findings: The news that people discuss in social networks is a lot different from what the mainstream media discusses. Also, the type of media makes a different. Topics that are talked up on Twitter aren’t the same as those that get chatted about on YouTube.
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June 17, 2010
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Metrics for social media engagement
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SImple guide to using Flip Cams or phone cams for good video
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It would put Sky News together with Mr Murdoch's newspapers and - very importantly - his new venture in putting their online versions behind a so-called pay wall. The opportunities for cross-promoting those newspapers on Sky will be seen by other newspaper groups as giving News Corporation a huge advantage.
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content has gone from being scarce to being ubiquitous. Bloggers make content. Flickr photographers make content. Facebook posts are content. Tumblr publishers make content. Content isn't King because it isn't scarce. It's everywhere, it's overwhelming, and it's gone from quality to noise.
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If you've been living on Mars and don;t know about Citizen Journalism yet, I explain a few of the issues for the BBC College...
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June 16, 2010
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, I've started toying with the idea of doing a digital media fast. All the time I spend online now will be devoted instead to postcards, letters, and whatnot. This will require a lot of substitution: landline for cellphone, fax for e-mail, record player for i-Pod, etc. Essentially, I'm going to pretend that it's 1989. In trying to come up with a term for this category of media that I'm trying to reinvigorate, I came up with "analog" and "anachronistic" before settling on Slow Media, in the spirit of Slow Food and the attendant Slow, or Slow Living, Philosophy.
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The Internet is poised to overtake newspapers as the second-largest U.S. advertising medium by revenue behind television, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Global Entertainment and Media Outlook for 2010 to 2014.
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Both Skiff and Journalism Online serve as key building blocks in our strategy to transform the publishing industry and ensure consumers will have continued access to the highest-quality journalism,"
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in the Internet world, quality, originality and exclusivity are fast becoming irrelevant. Instead, online publications increasingly treat content as low-paid, illiterate swill, commissioned by the ton to provide SEO ad inventory.
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We’ll learn by trying new ways of doing what we’ve done with news, by putting ourselves visibly in the social media mix, and by using the emerging tools of daily communication in all aspects of our work.’
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