studying the media ecosystem
If you can spend an hour frowning and shaking your head then by all means read the 10-page article in Columbia Journalism Review about how the U.S. government has used information as a weapon in Iraq. Meanwhile, give me a few minutes to hit a few points in CJR associate editor Daniel Schulman’s piece, Mind [...]
A wealthy lawyer and businessman, schooled in the ways of Washington, D.C., has provided launch funding for the Sunlight Foundation, a non-profit group desgned to teach citizens how to track their lawmakers and thus create a corps of public watchdogs. Online Journalism Review recently interviewed Sunlight’s executive director Ellen Miller. I wasn’t aware of this [...]
For many a morning I’ve blogged under this mini media label that, to my way of thinking captures the Lilliputian-versus-Gulliver spirit of the times. Sadly for me, however, it’s just not a term that has caught on. Thus it was a real delight to read this comment written by Guy Kawasaki :
“I wish that I [...]
Many hands make light work, or so the proverb says, and on my morning walk I recalled a remark that I heard once at a conference of non-profit groups that were brainstorming on how to use technology as an organizing tool. One speaker — and pardon me that I can’t provide a pointer right now [...]
I have no efficient system fo keeping track of interesting sites that I find online. So thanks to Amy Gahran for showing how to use a site called Furl to park links in a findable spot and tag them by category of interest. Her tutorial starts with a Poynter Institute blog posting. Leave yourself [...]
Henry David Thoreau is dead and probably for the best as I suspect that were he alive today the vacuousness of modern America would’ve probably been the death of him. Yet even from the grave one line of his essay, Civil Disobedience, questions one of the optimistic tenets of our times. “There is but little [...]
A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, cognitive scientist said Herbert Simon said more than 30 years ago. That concept forces editors to make short, sharp and strong their watchwords in presenting ideas. A Poynter Institute commentary drives home that point, passing on tips that University of Missouri journalism professor Don Ranly said [...]
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