4 days ago
Linkorama : The Wild Wordsmith of Wasilla - Dick Cavett Blog - My concern has been the atrocities there in Darfur and the relevance to me with that issue as we spoke about Africa and some of the countries there that were kind of the people succumbing to the dictators and the corruption of some collapsed governments o
# copy23 days ago
Linkorama : Big Tech Companies Back Global Plan to Shield Online Speech - called the Global Network Initiative, which commits the companies to “avoid or minimize the impact of government restrictions on freedom of expression,”
# copy
1 month ago
deusx : How John McCain Went From Maverick to Crank -- New York Magazine - "“Seriously,” Chris went on. “Do people really want to put up with four years of that? Of [him] sitting there, angrily, grumpily, like a codger?”"
# copy
3 month ago
nelson : Getting shot at - Turkish journalists wander into machine gun fire in Georgia
# copy
4 month ago
nelson : WSJ's fake Obama story - Reporter planted leading questions on the web, then quoted the only fake answer
# copy
5 month ago
nelson : Fox News photo lies - It's so blatantly silly it's hard to believe this happened
Andy Baio : Fox News alters photos of NYT reporter in critical segment - watching the clip reminded me of high school [via]
# copy
6 month ago
Linkorama : Ok, Wired, Let’s Do This. - Interesting clash between bias vs. disclosure, and competition vs. covering competition
# copy
8 month ago
gleuschk : Being James Brown : Rolling Stone - Jonathan Lethem
# copy
8 month ago
adamrg : Interesting map of media coverage - Shows growth or contraction as awkwardly shriveled or bloated country maps.
# copy
8 month ago
adamrg : Obama tells the Best Political Team on Television: You Have a Choice - In fact it was a speech aimed right at him, at the best political team on television, and all the makers of our election year spectacle.
# copy
9 month ago
Linkorama : Newsweek advances Andrew Keen’s ignorance - And the saddest thing of all about articles like these is that they are added to record. People hoping for relief from the disruption of personal technology will point to them as evidence, when in reality, they’re pure folly, bathed in assumptions that
# copy
9 month ago
nelson : BBC on Prince Harry - A blog is a perfect way to explain their thinking behind the embargo
# copy
9 month ago
nelson : Prince Harry story was held - I was wondering how we got such great photos all of the sudden
# copy9 month ago
nelson : On game criticism - Costikyan talks about criticism vs. reviews
# copy
10 month ago
nelson : Using the gaming press - Insightful article in how to market games
# copy
10 month ago
nelson : Twitter journalism - Nice summary of reporters using Twitter in the US presidential campaign
# copy
11 month ago
gleuschk : What I learned about network television at Dateline NBC. - the United States is arguably more isolated and less educated about the world than it was a half-century ago. In a time of such broad technological change, how can this possibly be the case?
Ethan Marcotte : "You Don’t Understand Our Audience": What I learned about network television at Dateline NBC - "To me, the term 'shareholder value' sounded like Mao's 'right path,' although this was not something I shared at the employee reëducation meetings." ∞
philgyford : "You Don't Understand Our Audience" by John Hockenberry - "...a series of lessons I learned about how television news had lost its most basic journalistic instincts in its search for the audience-driven sweet spot, the 'emotional center' of the American people." (via Oblinks)
# copy
12 month ago
Andy Baio : End of an era as New York Times closes recording room - NYT reporters tell their own stories in the comments
adamrg : End of an Era as Times Kills Recording Room | The New York Observer
# copy
12 month ago
plasticbag : Jeff Jarvis reports on the fun he had in London - It was really nice to finally meet him. We had a great conversation about future journalism, the web of data, the XO from OLPC and the BBC. Really lovely evening. Never seen Paula squee so much either!
# copy
12 month ago
Linkorama : Social Media Debate - For example, the judging team used a Socialtext wiki to collaborate during the month-long selection process. While many people would enjoy seeing this collaboration on the open web, our debate must be private and password-protected. Most Socialtext custom
# copy
13 month ago
Linkorama : Dan Gillmor heads Knight Center - Digital Media Leader Named Knight Center Director, Kauffman Professor at ASU
# copy
13 month ago
nelson : Good TechCrunch report - It's not all bad blogging; an actual quote! From a named source!
# copy13 month ago
philgyford : The NUJ's blinkered approach to online : October 2007 : Shane Richmond : Technology : Telegraph Blogs - Brilliant dissection of a dumb article about the effect of new media on the role of journalists'. (via Haddock)
# copy
13 month ago
philgyford : Donnacha DeLong: The Journalist article - Another dumb NUJ versus the forces of progress article. Established media is authoritative and experienced. Normal people are sometimes inaccurate. Therefore "Web 2.0" is bad. (via Haddock)
# copy
13 month ago
Linkorama : Can Web 2.0 Evolve Into an Enterprise Technology? - Andy Dornan writes perhaps the worst article on Enterprise 2.0 in two years. Wiki as a CMS? Mashups and Second Life?
# copy
