Pablo Boczkowski: The gap between what reporters write and readers read threatens news orgs’ future. We’ve written several times about Pablo Boczkowski, the Northwestern professor who studies news production and how it is changing in a digital environment. So when I was invited to serve as respondent to a presentation of some of Pablo’s new research at the MIT Communications Forum a couple weeks ago, I was very happy to. Here, Pablo talks about a series of studies he’s done looking at the gap between the kind of journalism that news organizations produce and the kind of journalism that consumers consume.
He’s gathered data from a number of different countries and time periods to see how those interests match up (or don’t). I think we found a few interesting points of disagreement — it’s worth a listen. I’ve posted a transcript below of both Pablo’s comments and my own (but omitting the very interesting Q&A which followed, which is also worth a listen). New View of How Humans Moved Away From Apes. 680_20110311-TsunamiWaveHeight.jpg 3000×2000 pixels. Arianna Huffington: Bill Keller Accuses Me of "Aggregating" an Idea He Had Actually "Aggregated" From Me. Perhaps unsettled by the fact that, when combined, The Huffington Post and AOL News have over 70 percent more unique visitors than the New York Times, and that HuffPost/AOL News' combined page views in January 2011 were double the page views of the Times (1.5 billion vs. 750 million), New York Times executive editor Bill Keller decided to unleash an exceptionally misinformed attack on HuffPost in a column released today and slated for this weekend's NYT Magazine.
After opening his piece by patting himself on the back so hard I'd be surprised if he didn't crack a rib (it seems everyone -- even Woody Allen and those folks on Twitter -- thinks he's super "powerful" and "influential"!) , Keller turned to the putative subject of his column: "the 'American Idol'-ization of news" and the evils of "aggregation. " He then describes HuffPost's offerings as nothing more than "celebrity gossip, adorable kitten videos, posts from unpaid bloggers and news reports from other publications.
" Social media helping drive Silicon Valley job growth. Posted: 05/02/2012 10:35:42 PM PDT0 Comments|Updated: about a year ago Congratulations! You found a link we goofed up on, and as a result you're here, on the article-not-found page. That said, if you happened to be looking for our daily celebrity photo gallery, you're in luck: Also, if you happened to be looking for our photo gallery of our best reader-submitted images, you're in luck: So, yeah, sorry, we could not find the Mercury News article you're looking for.
The article has expired from our system. What next? You may also want to try our search to locate news and information on MercuryNews.com. If you're looking for an article that was published in the last two weeks, here are more options: News: Local news articles Entertainment: Entertainment articles from the past two weeks Sports: Sports articles from the past two weeks Business: Business articles from the past two weeks Opinion: Opinion articles Lifestyle: Lifestyle articles from the past two weeks. Ex-Googlers penetrating Silicon Valley startup hierarchy. It may be too soon to equate the "Xooglers," as members of the ever-expanding network of ex-Google employees call themselves, with the "PayPal Mafia" -- the founders and early employees of the online payment company who went on to start Yelp, YouTube and LinkedIn.
But they're getting closer. For years, Googlers, many of them flush with the proceeds of the company's successful IPO in 2004, have left the Internet giant to become investors or start their own companies. But now, say people familiar with the growing network, there are Xooglers (a contraction of ex-Googler, pronounced like "Zoogler") at every level of the Silicon Valley startup hierarchy -- angel investors, partners at Sand Hill Road venture capital firms, entrepreneur mentorship organizations, and Google Ventures, a full-service venture capital operation that offers a unique set of resources, including the ability to tap into Google's engineer recruiting network.
Like Friedberg, many Xoogler entrepreneurs think big. VC True Ventures co-founder: There is no bubble, period. Connect with leaders from the companies in this story, in real life: Come to the fourth annual VentureBeat Mobile Summit April 14-15 in Sausalito, Calif. Request an invitation. There is no bubble forming around Silicon Valley or tech startups because white-hot companies like Twitter and Facebook are able to show they have fundamental value and are capable of making money, Phil Black, co-founder at early stage venture capital outfit True Ventures told me today.
“There is no bubble at current moment. There are very successful Internet businesses being created that are growing very rapidly and are making a lot of pretax profit,” said Black. The biggest red flag VCs need to worry about is when valuations seem out of whack with what investors understand about what the company actually does, he said. “We need to worry about a bubble when there are businesses being valued at sky high prices with no underlying fundamentals,” he said.
ION Digital » Blog Archive » Is Social Media Content Killing Your Business? (here’s how to fix it) You’ve heard it before: everyone is a publisher-including companies. We’re all media, competing with the WSJ and the big name bloggers for eyeballs. Content is a core part of any corporate social media strategy. Yet years into the new revolution, enterprise companies are coming up short.
Think about it: is your company’s social media content engaging? Relevant? The answer is probably no. (I’m talking about B2B social media content but it could apply to most of the business world) . The answer may be right in front of our faces: bring in the editors (you could start with all those laid off journalists). Social media purists resist this notion. The publishing model will address what I consider the five key hurdles or social media “gotchas” with enterprise companies: Most employees aren’t bloggers/writers: they lack writing skills to make their material sing. Start out by sitting down with the bloggers and social media manager to understand their goals. Developing a Framework (that works) You Say You Want A Revolution? Twitter Alone Isn’t Enough - CIO Central - CIO Network. Plaxo moving out of social networking... Plaxo is phasing out its social network features as it prepares for a major relaunch on March 16 (details later) and moves back to its roots: managing users' address books.
Justin Miller, CEO of Plaxo said, "Facebook and LinkedIn already do a pretty good job in the social network space and fulfill most users' needs. We have already begun phasing out our social network features. " After 9 years Plaxo is returning to its core focus, helping users manage multiple address books. The company will unveil new services next week. Plaxo, a Comcast company, has renewed its ambitions to become the primary address book service for mobile business professionals. Mr Miller said that the decision to leave social networking was made following a year-long project looking at how Plaxo should move forward. Mr Miller joined Plaxo about 18 months ago. "The address book problem has not gone away, in fact it has become more important now because of the many different address books that people have.
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