Panopticon. Craig Newmark: A Nerd's Take On The Future Of News Media. There are a lot of new technologies which already affect news consumption and future business models. As a nerd, I'm excited by the new tech, particularly mobile, including new display systems and pervasive connectivity. However, the tech is secondary, not nearly as important as repairing some current issues with trust and curation. As a news media guy, I'm an amateur, relying on large part on people who really know the business. Frequent engagement in social media helps, and most importantly, 14 years in online customer service gives me a good feel for the ground truth and attitude online.
Trust is the new black, as I like to say. The great opportunity for news organizations is to constructively demonstrate trustworthy reporting, and to visibly do so. News curation, that is, selecting what's news and should be visible, that's an equally big deal. Here's the deal... However, the really good journalism was buried, not curated into the front pages, and then, infrequently if at all repeated. Is Twitter the Final Evolution of the Bl. The evolution of the Internet has pushed the ideas of smaller, faster, lighter, and cheaper. For the relaying of personal knowledge via the Internet (which I'm shortening to ), the same model seems to apply.
The evolution of dissemination of personal knowledge currently has us using as the medium of choice. This year, I've been hooked on latest RPK tool, Twitter. In the era of instant gratification, Twitter has to be one of the best tools. I post, I follow, I get followed, I create searches, I follow some more. Of course, this all brings me back to my initial question of, "Is Twitter the Final Evolution of the Blog? " "Smaller" - Twitter is 140 characters (SMS limitation is 160) "Faster" - As far as I can tell, it is pretty instantaneous "Lighter" - It works on any Internet medium (even my wife's old cell phone can Twitter via SMS) "Cheaper" - Free (although, I'm wondering if that will change) What other options are there out there?
1. 2. 3. By this "where" I am talking geographically. 4. 5. R. Scott Raynovich - Cuban Files: Can Newspapers Be Saved? Welcome to the Community | Knight Pulse. True/Slant Tests Web Journalism Model. ‘Hyperlocal’ Web Sites Deliver News Without Newspapers - NYTimes. The Media Equation - Newspapers Begin to Push Back on the Web - 1. Solve journalism’s data problem. 2. Kill the AP. 3. Invest in. First, a constructive proposal: News organizations need to band together — not to cut off their content, along with theirs noses, or to collude in antitrust cabals — but simply to set a new metadata standard identifying original reporting.
If every news story carried a switch identifying original reporting, then aggregators like GoogleNews and Daylife (where I’m a partner) could give precedence to and link to that journalism at its source, helping support that reporting in the link economy. The problem today is that aggregators favor freshness, but the latest story in a topical cluster is often the 87th rewrite of the news and it’s usually from the Associated Press, which cuts off links and credit to the original journalism (for all its bluster, the AP is actually the biggest problem newspapers have online, but more on that in a minute). Now I know that a flag that says “give my story better play” is ripe for gaming. Instead, the AP is, incredibly, looking to start a news portal. Who the Hell Is Enrolling in Journalism School Right Now? A little more than ten years ago, I stumbled out of a liberal arts college with a mediocre GPA into a job with a weekly business journal with a smallish circulation in my hometown of Memphis, Tenn.
I’d never studied business or journalism, and I came from a family of academics. I didn’t even really understand what a stock was. But there was something I loved about it. I had great editors, and I was learning a ton everyday about everything from how to get information out of people to where I was supposed to put a comma and where I was definitely not supposed to put a comma. Like most great careers, I just sort of fell into it, and I’ve been there ever since.
I’ve covered everything from old money cotton brokers to Facebook, and I’ve met some of the most fascinating people in the world along the way. Also about a decade ago, one of my oldest friends had graduated with a degree in journalism and was doing an internship at the same paper. I like to joke that I’m “unqualified” to do my job. Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable. Back in 1993, the Knight-Ridder newspaper chain began investigating piracy of Dave Barry’s popular column, which was published by the Miami Herald and syndicated widely. In the course of tracking down the sources of unlicensed distribution, they found many things, including the copying of his column to alt.fan.dave_barry on usenet; a 2000-person strong mailing list also reading pirated versions; and a teenager in the Midwest who was doing some of the copying himself, because he loved Barry’s work so much he wanted everybody to be able to read it.
One of the people I was hanging around with online back then was Gordy Thompson, who managed internet services at the New York Times. I remember Thompson saying something to the effect of “When a 14 year old kid can blow up your business in his spare time, not because he hates you but because he loves you, then you got a problem.” I think about that conversation a lot these days. Revolutions create a curious inversion of perception. Doom-mongering: A 2009 Internet Media Plan.