February 2012
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“If you tailor your news viewing, as some people are now doing, so that you only...”
– Peter Jennings (10/19/2004)
Knicks player Jeremy Lin opens up "Subscribe"... →
producermatthew:
Or, “You can totally subscribe to Jeremy Lin on Facebook now.”
As of this writing, he had just over 800 subscribers. Expect that number to grow higher.
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“We prize the increasing value of Twitter, and other social networks, to us (and...”
– BBC Social Media Editor Chris Hamilton clarifies the outlet’s Twitter policy.
It's Snowing!
wnyc:
That is all. -A.P.
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BBC to Journalists: Don't Break News On Twitter. →
Apparently the BBC, like Sky News, does not understand how the Internet works.
“Some would like to turn the clock back to a simpler time, when all power resided...”
– Rory Cellan-Jones
Here’s my take on the matter
(via soupsoup)
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GigaOM buys PaidContent from Guardian News & Media... →
Smart, smart move from GigaOm. Founder Om Malik explains why he and the site decided to make the purchase. The rough and dirty answer: people and location.
April 2011
15 posts
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“The seasoning I brought to the stew of our show was the same I bring in real...”
– Wendell Pierce
Via A.V. Club
Soup: Almost Dawn in Libya: Chris & Tim, Heading... →
cjchivers:
We’re numb here as the clock nears 4:30 a.m., and we’re not quite sure what to do. The deaths of Chris Hondros and Tim Hetherington on Tripoli Street still seem unreal. Bryan just walked off from the little space we’ve been huddled in, working. He’ll sleep soon, I hope. The work…
thedeadline:
This feels like an appropriate day to say thank you to reporters and photographers who risk their lives in conflict zones.
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WatchBoring Video, Good Tunes.
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The Shaky Argument of Forbes' Jeff Bercovici, or...
There is something in the shakiness of facts these days. Whether is it twisted and tormented for media power, policial influence, arguments—or even clicks. Case in point: Forbes’ Jeff Bercovici’s off-base and off-point column “When Journalism 2.0 Kills” from Thursday. To him, a 21-year-old stringer’s piece on Pastor Terry Jones burning of the Quran for Agence France-Presse has led to the deaths...
WatchI recently completed this piece on the Birdman of Washington Square Park. It was an awkward and interesting interview. Also, my first time really getting down with Final Cut on an actual project.
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February 2011
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November 2010
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Lincoln Restler Sticks It To The (Brooklyn) Man
After routing the will of Brooklyn Democratic Party Chairman Vito Lopez and a 30-year-incumbent in an October primary, Democratic State Committeeperson-elect Lincoln Restler detailed his insurgent campaign at a fundraiser Friday in a Williamsburg bar.
Restler defeated Lopez-endorsed Warren Cohn by 121 votes for the 50th assembly district, which includes North Williamsburg, Fort Greene and...
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WatchA video piece I made on New York subway musician Gabriel Mayer as he played in Union Square station.
WatchSome great stuff here in the Stewart and Maddow interview. Media, personalities, culture. It’s a bit dense at times but a great watch.
October 2010
26 posts
“If I go online today to HaveNoLifeAndBetOnSports.com and bet fifty dollars on...”
– Matt Taibbi, Journalist
WatchZuckerberg at Startup School yesterday at Stanford. Part two and other speakers from through out the day at Startup School’s justin.tv page.
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WatchMIT’s Eric von Hippel on how users are actually driving innovation. Via Nieman Lab.
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AD AGE: Why Do So Many New-Media Startups...
Interesting article from Simon Dumenco at Advertising Age. Not too many new ideas or concepts but still something to think about in this environment.
It’s become accepted wisdom that many old-media companies are doomed; they’re led by, the thinking goes, out-of-touch numbskulls. They exhibit incompetence and/or lethargy of such Darwinian proportions that they simply deserve to...
“Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity.”
– Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. My thoughts exactly when it comes to journalism and journalists as well.
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“For defenders of national cohesion and tempered adversity in our politics, it is...”
– The New Yorker’s Sean Wilentz on Glenn Beck, The Tea Party and U.S. Politics.
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David Simon: The Internet Is Not To Blame For...
NEW YORK- The Internet is not to blame for newspaper industry woes according to award winning writer and 2010 MacArthur Genius Grant recipient David Simon.
Instead, as the third buyout from The Baltimore Sun in 1995, he realized that these problems were the result of bad business practices, he said at The New Yorker Festival Saturday. Leaving along with 150 Sun employees, Mr. Simon noted that at...
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WatchIt’s not just that I lean liberal but I respect this woman’s journalist tenacity. Maddow doesn’t serve or take bullshit. On a side note, I am enjoying MSNBC’s new campaign except for the ambiguous ”Lean Forward” tagline.
“I liken entrepreneurism to a disease. Having it myself, I am not always sure it...”
– Jeff Stibel in The Harvard Business Review from last year on Entrepreneurship.
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The Social Media Pot Boils and Churns
If “The Social Network” has done anything it sure has garnered some debate on the power of social media and its apparent usefulness. The old guard is out with their “get off my lawn” claws to beat social networks over its head with a big stick. Last week, Malcolm Gladwell tried to clobber Twitter and Facebook with a screed in The New Yorker declaring that the...