studying the media ecosystem
Over the weekend I watched our toddler while my wife helped organize a conference of homeschoolers in Sacramento.The group includes a large cohort of what I call “hippie homeschoolers” — parents with some sort of non-religious objection to traditional education. This gathering helped me realize something apropos of the two posts that I wrote last [...]
Off at a conference with a haphazard schedule and intermittant connectivity, here are a few things that have backed up over the week, starting with Susan Mernit’s nice writeup on Jay Rosen’s NewsAssignment.net project in citizen journalism.
Read an excellent report from the European Broadcasting Union on IPTV on that continent where developments are [...]
An office emergency and nasty traffic caused me to miss half of the formative meeting of the Social Media Club about which I wrote yesterday. But what I did observe was instructive in seeing how ideas — in this case the so-called new media press release — gain currency.
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In having coffee with a blogging buddy I learned that the Social Media Club is holding an organizational meeting tonight in the Silicon Valley to begin :
“a global conversation about building an organization and a community where the many diverse groups of people who care about social media can come together to discover, connect, share, [...]
Ball State University’s Center for Media Design has carved out a niche as the go-to outfit when it comes to reasearch on who spends how much time with which media. Its most recent report suggests that the computer dominates attention during the workday, while the television is the night time eyeball magnet. Telecommunications professor and [...]
An article by Nicholas Lemann in the New Yorker ( “Amateur Hour”) makes some thoughtful observations about citizen journalism but goes astray by setting up a false dichotomy between journalism and blogging. “There is not much relation,” Lemann writes, “between claims for the possibilities inherent in journalist-free journalism and what the people engaged in that [...]
Would you like to create an online property that you could lauch on a part-time basis, build without investment capital, and possibly sell within a few years? If you answered in the affirmative it’s time to learn about placeblogs.
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