Posts tagged submission
Is A Reblog The New Byline?
Interesting idea submitted by Alakananda Mookerjee (blog / Tumblr) — FJP.
My reloaded résumé quotes a quixotic statistic—the number of my original and curated posts. I mention the number of times I have reblogged others, and others, have reblogged me.
No, I am quipping. But, stick around.
As nearly all of us know, today, the profession of news reporting is in a state of creative destruction.
This is the Golden Age of Social Networks. It is the heyday of Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, LinkedIn, and Google+, among countless other networks.
To borrow a phrase from David Brooks’ op-ed in The New York Times, “The Saga of Sister Kiki, “online, eyeballs and page-views are king.”
But, regardless, a byline is what it is—a prestige. And the more venerable a publication it appears in, the greater its journalistic stock value.
When reputable news organizations, everyone from The Economist to The New Yorker to the NPR have eagerly taken up social blogging, it is not terribly irrelevant to ask if getting reblogged on Tumblr, by a media heavyweight, is the digital equivalent of a byline in its print or online version.
A narcissistic life-form, who believes in selfless self-promotion, may well put that on her or his résumé, stating that her or his post was reblogged by The Washington Post.
No?
8 All-Time Great Articles
Last week Dan from the Electric Typewriter asked us what some of our favorite all-time magazine articles are. I replied with this list of eight and then asked about his. He replies below. — Michael
First of all thanks for the excellent reading list, classics indeed. As requested, here are just a few of my many favourites:
The Worst Mistake in History by Jared Diamond pretty much spells out how we got ourselves into this unholy mess. Time to open your eyes.
To Have is To Owe By David Graeber. This should be the first thing they teach in school, if you’ve ever wondered what money really is, the answers are all here.
Phoning It In by Stanley Bing. The closest thing I’ve read to a full rounded philosophy of modern living. Looking for a credo? Look no further.
The Life by Walter Kirn. A mind-blowing insight into one of the world’s strangest subcultures. Kirn has that illusive blend of insight and style, you can find more of his excellent articles here.
Liking Is for Cowards by Jonathan Franzen. A passionate argument against the dangers of half-hearted button clicking.
This is Emo by Chuck Klosterman. How John Cusak (if you’re under 30 read Johnny Depp) ruined all our our lives.
The Capaital T Truth by David Foster Wallace. I could have chosen any of the classics from this list, but for me DFW’s 2005 Kenyon Commencement Address takes the cake.
For those of you who don’t already know, The Electric Typewriter is a collection of outstanding magazine journalism - to get an idea of what we’re all about click here, and if you have any recommendations we’d love to hear from you!
Occupy Wall Street is Focussing on the Wrong Street
Via adistinctivetaste:
I hate to say it but for those of us who live here in D.C. we have a pretty apathetic feeling towards those protesters in NY. 1 they are taking over the wrong street. Wall Street does all its bidding down here on K Street. High powered lobbying firms, NGO, and government contractors are the real problem. A great book called the shadow elite covers this pretty well. If the republicans make candidates sign pact agreeing not to support something for office, so should the dems. This isn’t working.
We say: Location location location is a relatively fair critique but think New York is a good place to shine light on corporate control of American civic life. And if DC is what you want, pay attention to 13th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW this coming Thursday morning.
That’s one Venn diagram with disproportionate influence.
Search engine optimization matters.
Bet you didn’t know that Bono owns 1.5 percent of Facebook.
Put a business model at the bottom of each column, and we might really have something!
Venezuela needs more ways like this
Hi, we are writing you fron Caracas, Venezuela, a litlle oil nation in South America but with big problems about the journalism. If the people don’t now, we placed third in the growdth of Twitter and the users stars to use this social media to do citizen journalism about sport or Internet Activity.
Some How, if your staff needs writters that report what happends in this hemisphere, i would like to offers especific information.
I´m a multimedia journalist from “El-Nacional” newspaper. Please keep this way to promote the Digital Jourlalism and news alternative channel to express the “truth”.
Good luck
We respond: Hola, y muchas gracias por ponerse en contacto con el Proyecto sobre el Periodismo del Futuro.
Podemos empezar diciendo que nos fascina Venezuela. Sin embargo, admitimos nuestra ignorancia sobre su país puesto que lo que sabemos se debe a algunos días que pasamos en Caracas, así como a través de los venezolanos que hemos conocido alrededor del mundo y lo que leemos en la prensa estadounidense.
Usted menciona que Venezuela tiene grandes problemas en lo que se refiere al ejercicio del periodismo. Efectivamente, de acuerdo a lo que leemos y escuchamos eso es muy cierto.
Pero lo que entendemos sobre el ambiente mediático bajo el régimen de Chavez pasa por muchos filtros y nos encantaría saber mas sobre la situación a través de personas que vivan ahí.
Si pudiera compartir sus opiniones con nosotros se lo agradeceríamos mucho.
And once for good measure in English: Hello and thank you for reaching out to us at the Future Journalism Project.
Can we start by saying that we love Venezuela. We admit our ignorance though as most of what we know is from time spent in Caracas, meeting Venezuelans in various parts of the world and what we read here in North America.
You say that Venezuela has big problems with journalism. Yes, from what we read and hear that is very true. But what we understand about the media environment under Chavez comes through many filters so we’d love to hear more from people who are actually there.
If you can share your perspective we would be very grateful.
Is HuffPo A Whipping Boy?
If memory serves, crappy paying news jobs, long unpaid internships, a lack of diversity among mainstream media hires, and news executives’ failures to embrace the web had nothing to do with HuffPo or AOL, quite. It seems like L.A. Times’ Tim Rutten is making HuffPo a bit of a whipping boy for the failures of the industry at large, even if he’s writing well…
Whatever the ultimate impact of AOL’s $315-million acquisition of the Huffington Post on the new-media landscape, it’s already clear that the merger will push more journalists more deeply into the tragically expanding low-wage sector of our increasingly brutal economy.
That’s a development that will hurt not only the people who gather and edit the news but also readers and viewers.
To understand why, it’s helpful to step back from the wide-eyed coverage focused on foundering AOL’s last-ditch effort to stave off the oblivion of irrelevance, or Brentwood-based Arianna Huffington’s astonishing commercial achievement in taking her Web news portal from startup to commercial success in less than six years…
Another News Aggregator App? Eqentia. It’s Canadian.
Instead of editors, people are using their social streams to filter the news, and a whole bunch of apps (like Flipboard) are tapping into that to present your social news feed in more appealing ways.
A Toronto startup called Eqentia is approaching the problem from a different angle. It indexes 100,000 articles a day across blogs and news sites, puts them through a semantic engine to categorize them into every topic imaginable, and only then does it look at how much social attention each article is getting. Social comes last, not first.
What you get is a personal news page organized by topics and sub-topics that you want to follow (business, technology, iPad news, mobile web, cloud computing). Headlines can be sorted by time, social attention, or preferred sources. Eqentia is designed to create a competitive intelligence dashboard were you can create essentially an alerts page for specialized news about any micro-topic, but these also roll up into broader topics. Each topic page shows recent tweets about that topic in a sidebar widget. The news search is also pretty powerful because of all the implicit categorization and content mining that Eqentia does.
Tell it to Assange... US State Department Pushing Internet Freedom as Basic Human Right
Via Reuters, by Andrew Quinn
WASHINGTON, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will unveil a new U.S. push for global Internet freedoms on Tuesday, citing Internet-fired protests in Egypt and Iran as examples of how new technologies can spark political transformation.
Clinton, making her second major address on Internet policy amid growing evidence of how communications technologies can transform politics around the globe, will underscore U.S. commitments to a free, open and secure Internet, the State Department said on Monday, releasing excerpts of her speech.
“There is a debate underway in some circles about whether the Internet is a force for liberation or repression. But as the events in Iran, Egypt and elsewhere have shown, that debate is largely beside the point,” one excerpt of Clinton’s speech says…
Why the NYT Should Go NPR
There’s a lot of harrumphing around the blogosphere about the New York Times’ decision to again put up paywalls for digital access (the last attempt, TimesSelect, was shuttered in 2007). People are gaming out the angles: Have they chosen the right price points at as much as $20 a month? Why the different prices for the iPad app vs. website access vs. print subscriptions?
But the whole approach is wrong-headed. With its large, affluent, reasonably liberal and guilt-ridden audience, the Times would have more monetary success and more brand success with an NPR-like pay-what-you-will membership model with free events, tote bags, and other goodies thrown in…
The paper should build up [its] goodwill rather than make [readers and fans] feel bilked, or have to puzzle over the merits of various pricing models as though we were shopping for cable packages.
Pew Research: The Social Side of the Internet
The study found…
- 62% of all Americans said the internet has had a major impact on the ability of [volunteer] groups [for a social cause] to draw attention to an issue. Some 68% of internet users said that.
- 53% of the online Americans who are active in [volunteer] groups [for a social cause] say the internet has had a major impact on their ability to keep up with news and information about their groups; 30% say the internet has had a minor impact on that.
Kind of “no duh,” but also nice to see the numbers and the ideas approached scientifically.
He Wishes Tech Journalists Would Learn This Stuff. So Do We...
Excerpted from Steve Yelvington’s [sober, sage and real] media weblog
Counts are not the same thing as surveys.
Surveys yield projections that have margins of error that should be disclosed and explained.
Survey methods should be disclosed and critically examined. If a survey was conducted in order to generate a press release for marketing purposes, it’s probably bullshit…
Pageviews are not the same as hits.
Unique users are not the same thing as unique visits.
Attempts to count unique users are universally inaccurate because of multiple device usage and cookie clearing.
