Tue, May 22, 2012

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Why I Went Batshit on Twitter Against the BBC

Posted 1 year ago

Here’s a tale that reveals how journalists tend to think of their role in the conversation that makes up news and society.

I think the conversation is happening all around us, with or without the journalists. I teach now that it’s the role of the journalist to add value to that…

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Does Twitter Prevent Deep Thinking?

Posted 1 year, 2 months ago

The  Twitter Distraction Trope: Here We Go Again…

In the Guardian, Jonathan Freedland is the latest curmudgeon to recycle Nick Carr’s distraction trope, microwave it, and serve it with gravy. The argument is that Twitter—though possibly a wonderful thing for Egyptian revolutionaries …

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Can News Corp’s iPad Newspaper Succeed?

Posted 1 year, 3 months ago

The Strange Economics of the first iPad Newspaper

I have not seen News Corp’s Daily (I was invited to the preview last night but travel, exhaustion, health, weather, and thus prudence had me take the train home and I couldn’t get in today because of the ice). So I have nothing at all…

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