My generation
Submitted by yelvington on June 6, 2007 - 8:51pmCore newspaper readers?
Reacting to Neil Henry
Submitted by yelvington on June 5, 2007 - 10:09amJay Rosen's Twilight of the Curmudgeon Class deserves linkage just for the delightful title, but also for his synthesis of viewpoints and reactions to Neil Henry's recent "you kids get off my lawn" op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle.
Citizen Media in Asia
Submitted by yelvington on June 3, 2007 - 9:56amUpcoming in July: a citizen media workshop in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, under the aegis of the international newspaper technology organization Ifra. From the webpage:
First Time In Asia! Citizen Media Summit
How to Ride on the Wave of the Digital Deluge
Date: 2 - 4 July 2007
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Language(s): EnglishSummary / Composition / Zusammenfassung
How the iPhone threatens newspapers
Submitted by yelvington on June 1, 2007 - 3:16pmJournalists are chronically confused about why people read newspapers. As Clayton Christensen has pointed out, the best way to understand product-market relationships is this: People don't buy products; they hire products to get specific jobs done.
Boomers still love print? Don't be surprised
Submitted by yelvington on May 31, 2007 - 1:58pmEditors Weblog cites a study from the Newspaper Audience Databank that shows baby boomers in Canada still consume print (56% weekdays, 78% weekly cume): "Their readership habits have changed little over the past 20 years."
Why not kill the editorial page?
Submitted by yelvington on May 30, 2007 - 3:20pmAs the bloodbath continues at America's big newspapers, name-brand columnists, movie and music reviewers are at the head of the line of those being thrown overboard. At my alma mater in the north, the Star Tribune, 25 percent of the news department and 40 percent of the editorial page are getting the axe. Many old friends are on that list.
Watchdogging the watchdogs
Submitted by yelvington on May 30, 2007 - 2:20pmI've long argued that gatekeeping is dead and that our new role is more akin to that of a guide, pointing out both truth and falsehood in a rich and open bazaar of information.
Double kudos to Adrian Holovaty
Submitted by yelvington on May 23, 2007 - 2:39pmGetting a Knight award is cool. Having a Knight award positioned as creating little clones of yourself is doubly cool. So double congratulations are in order for Adrian Holovaty, who has received a $1.1 million Knight grant to extend/polish up/liberate his data-mashup software (as seen at ChicagoCrime.org ).
When you wish upon a star
Submitted by yelvington on May 21, 2007 - 9:55amIn a New York Times op-ed piece that is so bizarre that it almost seems a Swiftian modest proposal, author Mark Helprin argues for permanent copyright, suggesting that a creative work should forever belong to heirs and not to the culture from which it was born.
Past, present, and future
Submitted by yelvington on May 18, 2007 - 5:09pmI haven't posted much lately due to a heavy work/travel schedule ending in several days of vacation in Istanbul. At the moment I'm burning some time in an expat bar near the Sultan Ahmet mosque. My plane leaves at 5 a.m., so I'm closing down the bars and not bothering with a hotel tonight.