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Scribes, professionals and the decline of mass media: Clay Shirky, in his Here Comes Everybody, devotes a chapter, "Everyone is a media outlet", to a comparison of the decline of scribal production to the decline of "professional" journalism. He sets up this analogy on faulty legs that leave the argument that "what was once a chasm is now...; Tags: Journalist, Journalism, Stock, Media, Photograph, Image, Music, Investment, Document Management, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Managerial Accounting, Mitch Ratcliffe; Blog posts 2008-06-09
Should we be teaching people how to blog?: I'd like to believe that I pretty well mastered the five-paragraph essay in the 7th grade. A couple years of journalism took care of that style of writing (or at least well enough for me to write a story for our school newspaper that didn't necessarily contain five five-sentence...; Tags: Journalism, Media, Blog, Class, Blogging, Blogger, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2007-08-05
Online ad spend increase accelerates media disruption: Im often invited to talk to groups of people about whats going on in the media sector, and I often start with a simple observation: At no other time in our lives will we be witness to such a massively disruptive/destructive time in the media industry. Thats exciting to me...; Tags: media, journalism, Media/Blogging, New Rules; Blog posts 2006-11-22
Arrington is actually helping mainstream media by sucking away their readers: Mike Arrington wanted to create a dialogue with mainstream media at ONA. Steve Gillmor says he shouldnt have wasted his time. Steves right.You want to get the attention of mainstream media? Kick em in the revenue stream. The real competition therefore is Craigslist. You match up six Arringtons with six...; Tags: Arrington, mainstream media, media, Ask; Blog posts 2006-10-09
NuJournalism: Jay Rosen has penned a long response to my comments last week on those of Nicholas Lemann, Dean of the Columbia School of Journalism and a columnist for The New Yorker, who I was responding to, as well. In a well-cover-copied email to me [Click here to...; Tags: journalism; Blog posts 2006-08-05

Publicly selected and funded investigative reporting: Can it work?: Meet Jay Rosen. If you've frequented the inner circles of journalism, joined a public conversation about the media, or paid any attention to the so-called "a-listers" of the blogosphere, then chances are you've encountered the New York University-based professor of journalism, or at least his media/journalism watchdog blog at PressThink.org....; Tags: Meet Jay Rosen; Blog posts 2006-07-25
BloggerCon: Citizen media--users know more: The second discussion session at BloggerCon was led by Jay Rosen, associate professor of journalism at NYU. Rosen listed several questions and topics to kick off the discussion. The Docnographer Doc Searls provides live notes from the discussion. Here is a link to the podcast version. ...; Tags: journalism, Jay Rosen; Blog posts 2006-06-23
Dave Winer and Dan Gillmor on the future on news: RSS and blogging father Dave Winer and We the Media author Dan Gillmor discussed the future of news and the collision of media and journalism on a panel at the Future in Review Conference. They brought up the usual journalism versus blogging, big media versus citizen media, which is not...; Tags: Dan, Dave, blogger, media; Blog posts 2006-05-15
Can blogging replace journalism?: Can blogging replace journalism?Thanks for important warning"What happens if the old media dies before the new media has learnt to walk?"If it did die too soon, quick guesses:Some of us pay more to get old-style speed and quality of coverage and analysisSome of us do more work to try to...; Tags: Advertising & Promotion, media, blogging, journalism; Discussion threads 2006-02-07
The rise of search . . . and the decline in journalism: The rise of search . . . and the decline in journalismNo more"We need professional journalists in large enough numbers so that we can ensure a high degree of accuracy in the content of our media."We don't need more, we need better journalists.They can start by learning how to do...; Tags: Blogging, Advertising & Promotion, journalism, media, blogger; Discussion threads 2005-12-14

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Geek Sheet: A Tweaker's Guide to Solid State Drives (SSDs) and Linux: Is 20th century conventional Winchester multi-platter, multi-head random-access disk technology too quaint for you? Want to run your PC or server on storage devices that consume far less energy than the traditional alternatives? Want a portable or mobile storage unit that will never fail due to G-forces or "crashing?". Looking...; Tags: Linux, Disk, File System, Solid State Disk, Kernel, Mandrake, Jason Perlow; Blog posts 2008-07-25
MobileTechRoundup show #141, jkOnTheRun is aquired, Sony Reader, battery life, and more: I had a good time recording MobileTechRoundup show #141 with the two newest members of the Giga Om Media group, James Kendrick and Kevin Tofel. Don't worry listeners and readers, you will still get the same content from those two and from me here on the podcast for the foreseeable...; Tags: MobileTechRoundup, Sony Corp., Battery, Sony Reader, Kevin, Podcasts, Internet, Matthew Miller; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Gaping holes in RealPlayer patched: Gaping holes in RealPlayer patchedReal is feeling threatened by AppleReal doesn't want to lose its title of "Least Secure Media Platform Ever Released" to QuickTime. How anyone can allow either of these programs on their computer is beyond me. You are practically [b]begging[/b] to get pwned.People still use that piece...; Tags: Digital music, Digital media, RealNetworks RealPlayer, Apple QuickTime; Discussion threads 2008-07-25
Gaping holes in RealPlayer patched: Digital media delivery firm RealNetworks has shipped a high-prority patch to cover four gaping holes in its flagship RealPlayer software, warning that the vulnerabilities could put users at risk of code execution attacks. The patch comes a few hours after Secunia released an advisory warning for one...; Tags: Vulnerability, RealNetworks Inc., RealNetworks RealPlayer, Digital Music, Digital Media, Security, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Ryan Naraine; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Global spending on Internet ads will total $65.2 bln in 2008: Worldwide spending on Internet advertising will total 65.2 bln USD in 2008, which is nearly 10% of all ad spending across all media, according to IDC. This share is expected to reach 13.6% by 2011 as Internet ad spending grows to $106.6 bln worldwide. by NB; Tags: Internet Advertising, Internet, NB; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Britain moves against illegal file sharing: CBC News out of Canada is reporting that British ISPs are making an aggressive move against illegal file sharing by implementing a program designed to discover copyright violators, who will be sent warning letters and may potentially have their internet connections disconnected. For more on the article,...; Tags: File-sharing, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Mystery solved: Apple's new product is iTablet (updated): Previously I speculated about the mysterious "product transition" that Apple's Peter Oppenheimer CFO mentioned no less than seven times in the Q3 2008 Earnings conference call with analysts. Some of his quotes from the call: We are working to develop new products that contains technologies...; Tags: Apple Inc., Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Cool Tools - Slingpage extends stickies and sharing to Firefox users: Slingpage, which announced its social browsing extension for Internet Explorer last month, will introduce an equally feature-rich version of its service to Mozilla Firefox users next week. Slingpage offers a way for Web surfers to find information about favorite topics via "Slingcast" feeds as well as create...; Tags: Monitor, Mozilla Firefox, Note, Tool, Slingpage, Web Browsers, Monitors & Displays, Internet, Hardware, Components, Jennifer Leggio; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Microsoft may need an IBM moment of clarity: Microsoft's financial analyst meeting was a tale of a technology conglomerate: You heard a lot about search, a decent bit about the enterprise and all sorts of projects in between. But amid all the coverage--see Mary Jo's laundry list of stories--I can't help but wonder if Microsoft's...; Tags: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Enterprise, IBM Corp., Game Players, Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Management, Software, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-25
News to know: 'Spam king' dead; Microsoft's cloud; Dell;: Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicide CBS Denver Video: 'Spam King' Inmate Dies Along With Wife, Daughter Mary Jo Foley: Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloud Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC,...; Tags: Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-25