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As usual, I’ve accumulated a pile of things I want to blog about, and might eventually — but until then, here’s a few links:
- NowPublic.com has gotten financing from Brightspark and some angel investors, as was mentioned at mesh a couple of weeks ago — founder Michael Tippett was on a panel there about the future of journalism, and did a great job of holding his own with Om Malik — and Pete Cashmore at Mashable.com has a post about how NowPublic wants to take a slightly different route in “citizen journalism” or “participatory media” (my preferred term, and I think Mike’s too).
- Stuart MacDonald, who knows a thing or two about airlines from his days running Expedia, has a great post about how little attention is being paid to the auction of spectrum for in-flight Internet access, something you would think more people would be interested in. I know I would, if only I could actually afford to travel anywhere. Maybe we should call in-flight Internet Hi-Wi :-)
- Mark Cuban, the gazillionaire blogger and owner of the Dallas Mavericks (plus HD.net and some other stuff), has a post up about how journalism matters — although he says it needs to change (and I would agree). Carlo Longino of MobHappy and TechDirt.com, however, says on his personal blog that journalism is broken.
- Roelof Botha, the Web 2.0 guy at Sequoia Capital who spearheaded their investment in YouTube, talks to SiliconBeat.
- Another couple of journalism notes: Wall Street Journal publisher Gordon Crovitz talks about the paper’s redesign and how it is being influenced by the web (Tim Porter’s take is here) and on a somewhat-related note, Globe and Mail editor-in-chief Ed Greenspon took some questions on the paper’s website, and had some interesting things to say.
- Jaron Lanier has written a long rant about the collectivist — and even flat-out communist — kind of “hive mind” he sees behind a lot of Web 2.0 such as Wikipedia, something that Andrew Keen got a lot of mileage out of, and a line others have parroted as well. Why we should take Jaron’s word for it just because he helped invent “virtual reality” way back when is beyond me. And Umair Haque of Bubblegeneration has a nice deconstruction of the piece.
- Last but certainly not least, the Pew Internet and American Life study is out and it has found that 50 million Americans are content creators.
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I prefer "participatory media" to "citizen journalism" too. Calling bloggers journalists sets them up for the kind of critique Tim O'Reilly launched last week; e.g., why didn't the bloggers who commented on the service mark issue do the same fact checking the NY Times did? Um, because we're not journalists for the most part and we don't own our own fact checking departments.
But "participatory media" doesn't quite capture it for me either. That makes it sound like some sort of interactive TV show where the audience merely gets to choose what ending is shown. I'm going to think on it some more.
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I guess the inability to come up with a satisfactory term for it says volumes about how much we are still struggling with what it is and what it means.
Thanks for the comment.
Mathew
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