studying the media ecosystem
I recently visited a web site called AngryJournalist.com. I had read about it in a commentary from a prestigious journalism think-tank, the Poynter Institute. At first I thought it was a joke, then I got angry, because its welcome screen read:
“Tell us what’s making you upset at your journalism job. Anonymity guaranteed. One rule: no real names.”
How oxymoronic! Journalists sign their work. They report [...]
I was supposed to pick up a thread I left dangling yesterday, but I am not so full of myself as usual and had no thoughts to fill this space. So let me share this picture of the homestead where I set my mind to wandering.
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Were the Nickelodeons YouTube 1.0?
Before World War I when newspapers were reaching new readers as rising literacy and the rapid offset press created a mass audience for news, Joseph Medill Patterson co-edited the Chicago Tribune with his cousin, Robert R. McCormick. Patterson, who left Chicago and went “over there” to serve on the front during “the [...]
Kevin Kelly has a lovely and encouraging idea for creative people wondering how to make a living from their talent or craft. It only takes 1,000 True Fans – people willing to spend $100 a year on your stuff – to gross $100,000. Back out some expenses and that’s enough to make a modest living or renumerative hobby. He writes:
“One thousand is a feasible [...]
“For the most part, magazine staffers are not personally worried about their own jobs,” reports Paid Content’s David Kaplan in summarizing a job survey by Folio managine. For those in some other part of the job-losing communications industry who wonder whether the grass is greener in magazines, I posted the salary schedule from the Folio piece [...]
The U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) has been on the books since 1966 to establish the public’s right to get government documents. In that time its powers have repeatedly waxed and waned. On New Year’s Eve, President Bush signed a law that amended FOIA. An unbylined Associated Press article that ran in USA Today said:
“The new law toughens the Freedom of Information Act [...]
“The internet is a copy machine,” Kevin Kelly says in “Better than Free“ an essay in which he paints the net as a “super-distribution system.” It churns out copies so “super abundant they become worthless.” Kelly advises creative people to invent new ways to make money because it is no longer possible to charge for content.
But Kelly is only half right. Sure the net is a copier. But he overlooks the [...]
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