5 Big Papers to Share Articles and Photos. L'important, c'est de participer - Nouvelle formule. Sur Libres enquêtes, Marie-Amélie a tiré hier le bilan de notre campagne européenne participative. Je suis, assez naturellement, d’accord avec elle – sur la motivation variable selon les moments et les sujets, le bon (le nombre et la qualité de ceux qui ont répondu à l’appel d’offre initial) et le moins bon (le manque de réactivité des réseaux sociaux) – et ne vais donc pas revenir là-dessus.
Plutôt, comme Michel Vaillant, regarder droit vers l’avant parce que c’est là qu’est le futur radieux de notre avenir resplendissant. Think positive! Une chose est sûre, on va recommencer. Egalement parce qu’on s’est testé, et que le test positif, ça donne du coeur à l’ouvrage. Ca ne va pas nous (tous, à gauche) empêcher de continuer à creuser la rigole. Ensuite? PS qui n’a rien à voir (quoique): Ca a un peu circulé sur Twitter, la petite sauterie, un dîner de bourreaux consécutif à l’article de Xavier Ternisien sur les forçats du Web. Presse-fiction à New York. Chris Anderson on the Economics of 'Free': 'Maybe Media Will Be a Hobby Rather than a Job'.
L'influence digitale : du buzz à l'enjeu de société | Questions d'influence. ... Yet Without Information, We Are Nothing. Remettre le génie dans la bouteille ? The Guardian inaugure l'information "blocale" Lack of Vision To Blame for Newspaper Woes.
Is the product you are accustomed to holding in your hands a relic, soon to go the way of silent movies and manual typewriters? I have been one of the industry's most fervent optimists, convinced that somehow, some way, newspapers would find a path to survival. But the last few weeks have shaken my belief, suggesting that what I find indispensable -- a daily compendium delivered to your doorstep -- may be left behind by history and public indifference. The bleak future becomes clear when one paper after another whacks a third or more of its staff -- the Baltimore Sun is just the latest -- and the New York Times Co. threatens to shut down the Boston Globe before settling for painful cutbacks.
This is not some temporary downturn; these jobs are gone forever. Warren Buffett, who reads five newspapers a day, now sees the possibility of "just unending losses" and says he wouldn't buy one at any price. The people who run such companies bear a considerable share of the blame. Articles. How Many Links Are Too Many Links? Click to enlarge this visualization. Created using Processing by Nick Bilton. Data collection by Evan Sandhaus. I repeatedly hear from people with information overload disorder. From news and information sites to blogs, social networks, tweeters, emails, and on and on, the blizzard of information has easily surpassed category 5 levels. To understand how much content effluvia we’re subjected to, I wanted to see how many links are on the homepage of popular websites.
For example, if I go to the homepage of the Huffington Post, I see 720 links, in one shot. Then click inside to a story and you’ve nearly doubled that number—it ads up pretty quickly. This visualization takes 98 of the top websites, from different genres, and organizes them alphabetically, with varying circle sizes to represent the number of links on their respective homepage. Granted, we probably don’t see all these links, but they’re being pushed at us in the hopes that we do. The Elite Newspaper of the Future | American Journalism Review. A smaller, less frequently published version packed with analysis and investigative reporting and aimed at well-educated news junkies that may well be a smart survival strategy for the beleaguered old print product. By Philip Meyer Philip Meyer is professor emeritus in Journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of "The Vanishing Newspaper: Saving Journalism in the Information Age.
" The endgame for newspapers is in sight. How their owners and managers choose to apply their dwindling resources will make all the difference in the nature of the ultimate product, its service to democracy and, of course, its survival. In an article in the December 1995 issue of AJR called "Learning to Love Lower Profits" I predicted the financial turbulence that we are seeing today. The piece urged stakeholders in newspaper companies to accept the inevitability of lower returns and to apply their resources to maintaining their community influence.