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'Breaker boys' -- children who broke coal into manageable chunks by hand -- circa 1884 You need to read this Forbes.com post if you haven't already: "Huffpo and Patch Recruiting Bloggers as Young as 13." It perhaps fell under the radar a bit because of when it was published -- Friday afternoon during the lunch hour for many North American readers -- so I'm calling attention to it here. In it, Forbes reporter/blogger Jeff Bercovici notes that AOL's Huffington Post Media Group (HPMG) is prepping the launch of a vertical called HuffPost High School, which will be edited by a (paid) 17-year-old staffer, but which will apparently solicit unpaid blog contributions from teenagers.
Huffington Post Seeks Teenage Bloggers to Not Pay | Commentary and analysis from Simon Dumenco
Image via Wikipedia I seem to recall the sequence, but there were so many pratfalls in these cartoon classics that I may be imagining it — Wile E. Coyote laying out planks or track in front of himself in a desperate attempt to survive a hare-brained scheme gone awry and bridge a fateful chasm, running out of materials, and then, after hanging implausibly in a moment of painful realization, plummeting with a whistle to become a puff of dust on the canyon’s floor.
Wile E. Coyote and Print Publishing — The Tragicomedy of Desperate Measures
It’s hard to imagine anything more perfect than Slate’s decision to lay off its respected media critic Jack Shafer . Not perfect in a good way — I count myself amongst Shafer’s legions of fans — but perfect in the way that Alanis Morissette not understanding the meaning of ‘Ironic’ is perfect, or the way that a safety inspector falling out of a tenth story window would be perfect. “I tolllldddd yyoooouuu sooooooo…” I mean, what better illustration could there be of online media’s woes than an ezine laying off its media critic because the economics of web content don’t support a writer of his stature and specialism? At least Shafer can take some satisfaction in the fact that his departure is in and of itself an absolutely perfect piece of media criticism: Jack Shafer as both medium and message. Slate’s admission that, even with a minuscule staff of 60 and the financial “might” of the Washington Post company, it can’t make money from online content is also perfect.
Now Can We All Agree That The “High Quality Web Content” Experiment Has Failed?
Google's chairman has criticised David Cameron's proposal that potential rioters be banned from Twitter and Facebook. Photograph: Kerim Okten/EPA Google's executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, has criticised David Cameron's proposal to limit the use of social media sites during civil unrest in the wake of the riots that took place across England earlier this month. Schmidt, speaking at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival on Saturday, said that such a move was likely to backfire, highlighting how when the Egyptian authorities turned the internet off to try and quell unrest earlier this year it merely "enraged the citizens and got them to leave their homes to protest". Asked in Edinburgh what he thought of Cameron's suggestion, Schmidt said: "I think it's a mistake. It is a mistake to look into the mirror and try to break the mirror.
Twitter and Facebook riot restrictions would be a mistake, says Google chief | Media
Last Saturday I presented to students taking part in the brilliant Young Journalist Academy . The topic was “New Media” (not my title) and the primary aim was to get them up and running with their own blog and learn to publish online. However, I also knew it would be the perfect opportunity to gauge just how aware a group of bright, 16 and 17-year-olds were on the issues of web privacy and of just how easy it is to track down information about people online. The case study I included shocked them, especially when it came to Facebook privacy. I won’t be publishing it online in order to protect the identity of the individuals involved. However, I have been asked to explain the process I went through to obtain the information that I did.
Privacy and social media investigation: how I tracked down an entire family from one tweet | Joanna Geary
Preface The original Precision Journalism was written in the 1969-1970 academic year while I was the happy guest of the Russell Sage Foundation in New York City. It was updated only once, in 1978.
The New Precision Journalism - Preface
Welcome to episode #265 of Six Pixels Of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast . My professional career started off in Journalism (this was prior to becoming both a Publisher and Marketer), so yes, I have a soft spot for all things Journalism. There's also an important link between Journalism and Marketing. There are few who are looking at Journalism and the New Media with a sharper eye than Jay Rosen .
SPOS #265 - Journalism And The New Media With Jay Rosen | Six Pixels of Separation - Marketing and Communications Podcast - By Mitch Joel at Twist Image
The revolution may not be televised, but the riot was tweeted pretty well last night. I was up at 3am (don’t ask), and BBC News hadn’t even interrupted their normal programming. But turning to Twitter, it was all there. Specifically, via two reporters: Paul Lewis from the Guardian and Ravi Somaiya from the New York Times. They behaved like instinctive reporters: picked up (on the news or, more likely, on Twitter) that a riot was underway, then went out and reported it. And they did so with pictures and observations that were well-judged and informative, never hysterical or futile.
Twitter had the riot covered
Mar. 12 This is what I said at South by Southwest in Austin, March 12, 2011. It went well. Many thanks to Lisa Williams for helping with the tech and the backchannel. You can find a live blog of my presentation here . The audio is posted here .
The Twisted Psychology of Bloggers vs. Journalists: My Talk at South By Southwest
Pew: Nonprofit journalism doesn’t mean ideology-free » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism
Pew’s Project for Excellence in Journalism is out with a new study this morning that looks at the new universe of nonprofit journalism — and tries to get beyond the ProPublicas of the world to see who else is producing journalism under the legal structure of a 501(c)3 exemption. After all, remember, “nonprofit” signals a tax status, not a belief system or a commitment to any particular ideals, journalistic or otherwise. The study found more than a little ideology lurking under that IRS umbrella. Of the 46 sites examined — 39 nonprofit and 7 commercial as a control — around half “produced news coverage that was clearly ideological in nature,” the researchers report. Pew had the expected nice things to say about the usual nonprofit rock stars, like ProPublica , the Texas Tribune , MinnPost , and California Watch .
Maybe 'New Media' Needs a New Metaphor
Saturday I attended a couple of workshops about "New Media" ("Experiments in new media: Beautiful failures and startling successes" before lunch and "Rebooting science journalism: Adapting to the new media landscape" afterwards.) Together they convinced me that neither revolution nor evolution are the right metaphors for the impact of digital media. A better model for what's happening in our profession is a forced migration. Old niches (like "science beat reporter" or "science writer for magazines") are drying up, so we're stampeding into new media.Don’t trust anyone who says they’ll reveal the “secrets of social media.” There are no secrets of social media. As someone who’s seen the bubble of the early web and new media business burst, I’m feeling a sense of .
You Can Stop the Social Media Hype: Business Collaboration News «
Here is a picture taken by an entity who wishes to be known as Rufus T. Firefly, communicated to me (with permission) by my friend Mr D. M. of Leeds."I thought you might like this sign for your collection," said Mr. D.
Signs O' The Times
Kanye West, media cyborg « Snarkmarket
Tim Maly’s #50cyborgs project is unfolding this month, 50 years after the coining of the term “cyborg.” Here at Snarkmarket, our Tim has already contributed . Here’s my addition. So, I love Tim Maly’s kickoff post: What’s a cyborg? It’s fun, revelatory, provocative, and it uses design to tell its tale. ( You know I love that. ) Tim laces the post with striking images, and he labels them: This is a cyborg.Rectifying Asymmetries — Experts Are Battered From All Sides, But Are We Any Smarter
It’s not easy being an expert these days, it seems. Every time you turn around, there’s someone challenging you, raising an objection, making a point. And the proliferation of channels has the potential to not only thin your message but level the playing field with antagonists. But are experts worth defending from the onslaught of the new information economy?blogging
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