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Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: The Omnigoogle
But while Google is an unusual company in many ways, when you boil down its business strategy, you find that it’s not quite as mysterious as it seems. The way Google makes money is straightforward: It brokers and publishes advertisements through digital media.
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#99 Grammar « Stuff White People Like
In fact, one of the greatest joys a white person can experience is to catch a grammar mistake in a major publication. Finding one allows a white person to believe that they are better than the writer and the publication since they would have caught the mistake. The more respected the publication, the greater the thrill. If a white person were to catch a mistake in The New Yorker, it would be a sufficient reason for a large party.
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Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: The cloud's Chrome lining
Google is motivated by something much larger than its congenital hatred of Microsoft. It knows that its future, both as a business and as an idea (and Google's always been both), hinges on the continued rapid expansion of the usefulness of the Internet, which in turn hinges on the continued rapid expansion of the capabilities of web apps, which in turn hinges on rapid improvements in the workings of web browsers.
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Television - Is Jon Stewart the Most Trusted Man in America? - NYTimes.com
IT’S been more than eight years since “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” made its first foray into presidential politics with the presciently named Indecision 2000, and the difference in the show’s approach to its coverage then and now provides a tongue-in-cheek measure of the show’s striking evolution.
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Are editors a luxury that we can do without? | Media | The Guardian
"...as newspapers - especially regional papers in the UK and US - pare to the bone and then the marrow, it is worth asking whether editors are now a luxury."
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Stoooopid .... why the Google generation isn’t as smart as it thinks - Times Online
The digital age is destroying us by ruining our ability to concentrate.
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But the damage is not caused by overwork, it’s
caused by multiple distracted work. One American study found that
interruptions take up 2.1 hours of the average knowledge worker’s day. This,
it was estimated, cost the US economy $588 billion a year. Yet the rabidly
multitasking distractee is seen as some kind of social and economic ideal. -
“The next generation will not grieve because they will not know what they have
lost,” says Bill McKibben, the great environmentalist. - 2 more annotations...
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Dude, you stole my article. - By Jody Rosen - Slate Magazine
How I investigated a suspicious alt weekly.
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How Newsrooms Throw Away Value By Not Linking To Sources On The Web - Publishing 2.0
A lot of research can go into a piece of reporting, and in print the value of that research can only be passed on through brief quotes or references. But on the web, no longer limited by finite column inches, newsrooms can create huge value for readers by providing links to the source material that journalists have gathered.
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Is Google A Content Company? Of Course It Is. So What Should Publishers Do?
For the past week, I've been fielding calls about Google's new content play, called Knol, "killing" Mahalo. Knol stands for "unit of Knowledge" and it's a very well-designed Wikipedia/Mahalo style content publishing play. It's very similar to the New York Times' forgotten About.com, Seth Godin's spam-filled Squidoo, the flawed-but-fascinating Wikipedia, and of course my new project Mahalo.com.
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Predict The Future On WashingtonPost.com
Think you’ve got the gift of foresight? The Washington Post has partnered with Predictify, an online polling service, to create a “Prediction Center” that allows readers to vote on possible outcomes for selected stories. Users will be able to leave their predictions and discuss their beliefs on an integrated comment thread, with the most accurate participants appearing on a leaderboard. You can access the main Predictify hub here.
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The Atlantic Online | July/August 2008 | Mr. Murdoch Goes to War | Mark Bowden
Rupert Murdoch wants his Wall Street Journal to displace The New York Times as the world’s paper of record. His ambitions could be good news for the newspaper industry— or another nail in the coffin of serious journalism.
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Why the media is on the move - BizTech - Technology - theage.com.au
Mobile phones are changing the future of news, reports Stephen Quinn.
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Great Photo on Flickr? Getty Images Might Pay You For It - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog
If you are a photographer with high-quality images posted on Yahoo’s Flickr service, you may soon get an e-mail inviting you to become a paid contributor to Getty Images, the world’s largest distributor of pictures and video.
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Connecting The Dots Of The Web Revolution - Publishing 2.0
The problem with the AP isn’t really about linking, it’s about quoting. And the problem with quoting is that, now that anyone can publish any thought or idea on the web, and anyone can link to it or reproduce it, the whole notion of quoting and citation has been completely turned on its head.
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Passion fuels entrepreneurial journalism
The biggest challenge facing the journalism industry today is not declining readership, the economy or even the Internet – it is the increased competition that the Internet has made possible. -
Six Months In, And 600 Posts Later . . . The Worlds Of Blogging and Journalism Collide (In My Brain)
The journalist in me has been avoiding this post (too navel-gazing, too self-absorbed), but the blogger in me can’t help it. Media is changing—how it is produced and how it is consumed. The worlds of blogging and journalism are colliding and I want to get some thoughts down on this transition before I forget what the old world was like or feel too comfortable in the new one.
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