Issuu - You Publish. Blogging etiquette gets personal | Media. A discussion that began on a journalist's personal blog has sparked a wider debate on ethics in the age of social media as the lines between journalists' professional work and their personal activities blur. It began when Adam Tinworth, the head of blogging development for Reed Business International, criticised the National Union of Journalists on his blog for still not "getting" social media such as Facebook and Twitter, and for responding defensively to calls to include social media in their training.
In a follow-up post, Tinworth noted that an NUJ representative had visited his blog from an email with the subject "effing blogs" ( This turned into an unseemly spat when Chris Wheal, a freelance journalist and the head of the NUJ professional training committee, who had sent the email, criticised Tinworth for not contacting the union first for a comment before publishing his post. Tinworth argued that the union had an opportunity to reply in the blog comments. Scan This Book! Scan This Book! What will happen to books? Reader, take heart! Publisher, be very, very afraid. Internet search engines will set them free. A manifesto.New York Times MagazineSunday, May 14, 2006 In several dozen nondescript office buildings around the world, thousands of hourly workers bend over table-top scanners and haul dusty books into high-tech scanning booths. The dream is an old one: to have in one place all knowledge, past and present.
Until now. Brewster Kahle, an archivist overseeing another scanning project, says that the universal library is now within reach. But the technology that will bring us a planetary source of all written material will also, in the same gesture, transform the nature of what we now call the book and the libraries that hold them. 1. Scanning technology has been around for decades, but digitized books didn't make much sense until recently, when search engines like Google, Yahoo, Ask and MSN came along. This is a very big library. 2. 3. 4.
The Persistence of paper, Alessandro Ludovico. Ever wondered why bad musicians always win the Eurovision Song Contest, or how incompetent politicians get elected? Using scientific methods to investigate unusual topics Quirkology brings a new understanding to the backwaters of the human mind and takes us to places where mainstream scientists fear to tread. Findings include: How does your surname influence your life? What does the way you walk reveal about your personality? Why should women have men write their personal ads? What is the funniest joke in the world? Available from Amazon UK and Amazon US Kindle: Amazon UK and Amazon US The Guardian explores the psychology of lying and the search for the world’s funniest joke here, and Scientific American discusses Quirkology here. Richard created several YouTube clips to celebrate the publication of Quirkology, including the ‘Colour Changing Card Trick’….. High quality versions of six of the videos from the Quirkology YouTube channel are now available on DVD.
If:book. Important two-part piece by Melville House publisher, Dennis Johnson Part I The furor over Milo Yiannopoulos’s book deal with Simon & Schuster’s Threshold Editions inspires this publisher to ask one question of the disconcerted: Where have you been? Because this is where American publishing is now—or at least, the fifty percent of it dominated by the so-called “Big Five”—and it’s been there for a long time. Look at Threshold alone: It’s published Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Donald Trump.
S&S launched the imprint back in 2006 (with Mary Matalin as its founding editor) when Random House’s conservative Crown imprint (publisher of George Bush) formed an even more conservative sub-imprint, Crown Forum (Ann Coulter, Pat Buchanan), in 2003 … which in turn had been a response to Penguin’s 2002 formation of its conservative Sentinel imprint (Mike Huckabee, Scott Walker). It’s the modern predicament in a nutshell — the normalization of the most vile nonsense. Booksellers! WritersWeekly.com. BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » New News: Deconstructing the newspa. [Here's another in a very occasional series of posts suggesting how to change newspapers, all tagged and headlined "NewNews. " Prior posts addressed the need to inspire an imperative for change and suggested turning the newsroom into a classroom to recast journalists' relationships with the public.
In this post, I'll look at what newspapers do not need to be; in a future post, we will look at what they do need to be.] Newspapers waste too much money on ego, habit, and commodity news the public already knows. In an era of shrinking circulation, classified, and retail ad revenue — and in the face of shrinking audience and increasing competition — papers have to find new efficiencies and cut these expenses to concentrate instead on their real value (which, I’ll argue, is local reporting). Newspapers also have to have the guts to stop trying to produce one-size-fits-all products that serve every possible reader and interest in one edition. . * Stock tables have to go. . * Critics are luxuries.