August 2009
0 posts
“This is not to say that Cronkite was himself the problem; he was my hero when I...”
– Cato Unbound » Blog Archive » From Walter Cronkite to Tiger Beatdown (Clay Shirky)
“the bundle that is the newspaper doesn’t make any sense. Box scores and soup...”
– Cato Unbound » Blog Archive » The Newspaper Bundle Doesn’t Make Sense (Clay Shirky)
“Technology is working deep changes in the way people discover, discuss and come...”
– Cato Unbound » Blog Archive » Abandon Old Strategies to Survive in a New Era
“It is a bewitching thought the public will assemble itself. The idea is...”
– Cato Unbound » Blog Archive » The Public May Need to Subsidize Itself (Paul Starr)
“Like driving, journalism is not a profession — no degree or certification is...”
– Cato Unbound » Blog Archive » Not an Upgrade — an Upheaval
“The logic of the Internet, a medium that is natively good at helping groups...”
– Cato Unbound » Blog Archive » Not an Upgrade — an Upheaval
“As Paul Starr, the great sociologist of media, has often noted, journalism isn’t...”
– Cato Unbound » Blog Archive » Not an Upgrade — an Upheaval (Clay Shirky)
“The study — Meme-tracking and the Dynamics of the News Cycle, by Jure Leskovec,...”
– Scott Rosenberg’s Wordyard » Blog Archive » Newsies beat bloggers? Some caveats on memetracker study
“Politico is like an old newswire, except that it is more specialized, and...”
– Michael Wolff on Politico | vanityfair.com
“Allen arrives at the Politico office most mornings by 4:30. Over the next two...”
– Michael Wolff on Politico | vanityfair.com
“hile it’s almost unheard of for a revolution to come from the people most...”
– Michael Wolff on Politico | vanityfair.com
“In the Marshall McLuhan prescription, the demands of the medium—for ever more...”
– Michael Wolff on Politico | vanityfair.com
“n the fourth issue of Wired magazine, in the fall of 1993, just as the Internet...”
– Michael Wolff on Politico | vanityfair.com
“Four old-media veterans may have solved the future of news with the Politico Web...”
– Michael Wolff on Politico | vanityfair.com
“I will defend the “focal point” argument Henry and I made oh so many...”
– Yes, Laura, I want you to know that I’m linking to you entirely out of guilt | Daniel W. Drezner
“Most of the A-List bloggers aren’t all that influential. When I surveyed...”
– 11D: The Blogosphere 2.0
“Owning the printing press or broadcast tower used to define advantage: I own and...”
– Journalistic narcissism « BuzzMachine
“One of the things that I know blogs are best at are debunking myths that can...”
– Obama Calls on Liberal Bloggers to “Debunk” Health Care Myths | techPresident
“My firm belief is that in this web era,” continued Harris, “not all...”
– Politico Explains Politico | techPresident
“I often tell the story of coming back from a strike when I was Sunday editor of...”
– The death of snail mail & Sunday papers « BuzzMachine
“In the past 20 years, 200,000 mailboxes have vanished from city streets, rural...”
– Mail Volume Expected to Continue Decline; U.S. Postal Service Adapting Services - washingtonpost.com
“But here’s the truth, folks: Newspapers haven’t actually charged for...”
– NewsFuturist: Newspapers: 180 years of not charging for content
“As I was writing Say Everything, I thought about that phrase and realized that,...”
– Powell’s Books - PowellsBooks.BLOG - Blogs and the Master Narrative
July 2009
31 posts
“Through most of the history of the industrial era, markets were seen as a fit...”
– Cory Doctorow: Chris Anderson’s Free adds much to The Long Tail, but falls short | Technology | guardian.co.uk
“There’s a pretty strong case to be made that “free” has some...”
– Cory Doctorow: Chris Anderson’s Free adds much to The Long Tail, but falls short | Technology | guardian.co.uk
“Analog (old) media is all about managing scarcity by controlling distribution,...”
– Old Media, New Media and Where the Rubber Meets the Road - O’Reilly Radar
“I first learned of Wheeler last April, when her name appeared in a front-page...”
– The News About the Internet - The New York Review of Books
“During a recent visit to TPM’s office, on West 20th Street in Manhattan,...”
– The News About the Internet - The New York Review of Books
“Back in 2005, when I last wrote about the blogosphere,[*] it was dominated by...”
– The News About the Internet - The New York Review of Books
“Robert Picard would beg to differ. “The primary value that is created today...”
– Redefining Journalism’s Value | Newspaper Death Watch
“The prob is that social behavior now takes place on same distribution platform...”
– Wired Editor Refuses To Say “Journalism” Or “News”
June 2009
1 post
“Mass media reaches its natural end-state when we broadcast our lives rather than...”
– Nick Carr
May 2009
7 posts
“The breakthrough innovations come when the tension is greatest and the resources...”
– Hard times can drive innovation | The Australian
“It’s hard to know how many members of the online commentariat participated in...”
– Peter Daou updates his famous triangle theory.
“Stemming from advances in printing technology, rising literacy rates and the...”
– Developing a thirst for news - The National Newspaper
“[McCain’s chief campaign strategist Steve] Schmidt said the speed and diversity...”
– The ’08 Campaign - Sea Change for Politics as We Know It - NYTimes.com
“critics fail to recognize how the growth of blogs and other forms of online...”
– Dan Drezner: Public Intellectual 2.0 - ChronicleReview.com
“Brickley registered a Web site—palinforvp.blogspot.com—which began getting...”
– The Political Scene: The Insiders: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
“It’s a fairly good statement to say that blogging in general will likely be more...”
– Get over it. The blogosphere isn’t dead, just different. | JustinFlood.com
April 2009
12 posts
“The point I’m making is, you wouldn’t even think about that if you...”
– Bill Clinton On The Invention Of Air
“I think Katrina just did us a really big favor, to be crass about it,” Emanuel...”
– From Naftali Bendavid, The Thumpin’: How Rahm Emanuel and the Democrats Learned to Be Ruthless and Ended the Republican Revolution (New York: Doubleday, 2007), 53.
“I think the transition is going to be just as breakneck as the election, and...”
– Ben Smith, Politico - as reported in NY Magazine
“Blogging is a kind of slightly more polished IMing. But to the world. The...”
– Andrew Sullivan
“Back in the Dark Ages of 2004, when YouTube (and HuffPost, for that matter)...”
– Arianna Huffington
“Something significant has changed in just the last four years. We are...”
– The Crowd-Scouring of the President (TechPresident)
“For a time, the web had no mainstream; there were just brooks and creeks and...”
– Nichoals Carr: The Centripetal Web
“But how do people address blogs and new media sources (youtube, etc.) as...”
– A reader responds to Andrew Sullivan’s epic “Why I Blog”
“Four years ago, when I began my research into sharing and social networks, I...”
– Mark Pesce: http://blog.futurestreetconsulting.com/?p=76
“Freed from the constraints of the printed page (or any concept of...”
– What We’re Doing When We Blog (Blogger Founder Meg Hourihan)
“The old building block of journalism — the article — is proving to be inadequate...”
– Jeff Jarvis: The building block of journalism is no longer the article