http://www.diigo.com/user/Tonycurzonprice/macarthur Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:26:19 -0000 Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:26:19 -0000 http://blogs.ft.com/gapperblog <p>There's no money in political coverage, so blogs will wither ... but what does that mean for the newspaper?</p><p><strong>Highlights and Sticky Notes:</strong><p><div class="content"><p></p> <p>The answer is, in short, that there is not much advertising in political coverage. Nick’s biggest sites, such as Gawker, Gizmodo and Jezebel, draw advertisers because they have high traffic and clear commercial niches.</p> <p></p></div></p><p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice/macarthur' rel='tag'>macarthur</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice/media' rel='tag'>media</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice/business-models' rel='tag'>business-models</a> </p><p><strong>Posted by:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice'>tonycurzonprice</a></p> Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:26:19 -0000 http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/03/report-recruit.html <p>Military Report: Secretly 'Recruit or Hire Bloggers'</p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice/macarthur' rel='tag'>macarthur</a> </p><p><strong>Posted by:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice'>tonycurzonprice</a></p> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:43:22 -0000 http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=82eb5d70-13bd-4086-9ec0-cb0e9e8411b3 <p>support the old institutions of knowledge, advises Tyler Cowen</p><p><strong>Highlights and Sticky Notes:</strong><p><div class="content"><p class="articleText"> We cannot quite embrace the wonderfully egalitarian world of knowledge on the web. Error, falsehood, sloppy untruths, and just downright lies are found all too frequently and they threaten to spread even further. That's why we should defend institutions--such as academia and the standard canons of traditional journalism--that promise full fact-checking and tough standards of rigor. Yes those institutions are very often hypocritical. Everyone faces a deadline or a budget. Nonetheless, dropping our stated loyalties to such institutions would be like removing our thumb from the dike and letting the flood waters in. <div class="o:p"></div></p><p class="articleText"><div class="o:p"></div>I don't mean this as a call to let up on vigilance. We should criticize our truth-testing institutions and try to improve their truth-tracking properties; of course, this can mean an active life in Wikipedia, <i style="">Amazon.com</i>, and the blogosphere. But in the final analysis the standards of mainstream institutions are necessary. We should use the web to strengthen, rather than weaken, those procedures.<div class="o:p"></div></p><p class="articleText"><div class="o:p"></div></p></div></p><p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice/macarthur' rel='tag'>macarthur</a> </p><p><strong>Posted by:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice'>tonycurzonprice</a></p> Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:00:02 -0000 http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2007-01-02-lovink-en.html <p><br />There is a quest for truth in blogging. But it is a truth with a question mark. Truth has become an amateur project, not an absolute value, sanctioned by higher authorities. I</p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice/blogging' rel='tag'>blogging</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice/lovink' rel='tag'>lovink</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice/macarthur' rel='tag'>macarthur</a> </p><p><strong>Posted by:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice'>tonycurzonprice</a></p> Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:12:05 -0000 http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/david_cox/2008/02/media_and_the_mob.html <p>Politicians have long grown used to facing the wrath of the rabble. It was the vote that brought them to heel. Now, it seems, the web may subject journalists to similar treatment. We shouldn't be surprised that they don't like it. Priesthoods prefer quiescent congregations.<br /><br />For the moment, our media elite just doesn't seem to get it. The Guardian's director of digital content, announcing she has a &quot;duty of care&quot; to protect contributors from abuse, sounds like the Speaker, trying to safeguard MPs from attacks on their dubious perks. Yet even he doesn't attempt to insulate his flock from mere denigration.<br /><br />The media's audience has seized hold of the microphone. It will express itself as it will, and we shall all be the better for it.</p><p><strong>Highlights and Sticky Notes:</strong><p><div class="content">Hoo-blinking-ray.Someone gets it!</div></p><p><div class="content"><p>Problem seems to me that this was supposed to be a travel blog but was posted on a site that was uncomfortably close to CiF. Once alerted to its existence the sharks smelled blood and swam over to the backwater that is the travel section, having honed their skills (?) slagging off politicians and their cronies on the main CiF it was like shooting fish in a barrel.</p> <p>It was just a very inappropriate forum.</p></div></p><p><div class="content">Since the dawn of the mass media, its practitioners have enjoyed a peculiar degree of immunity from the complaints of those they address. Understandably, they've taken advantage of this, growing lazy, sloppy, self-satisfied, self-indulgent, nepotistic and arrogant. Readers have sensed this, but until recently have been powerless to do anything about it. Now, the internet has given them a voice.</div></p><p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice/comment' rel='tag'>comment</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice/macarthur' rel='tag'>macarthur</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice/martin-moore' rel='tag'>martin-moore</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice/media' rel='tag'>media</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice/mob' rel='tag'>mob</a> </p><p><strong>Posted by:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice'>tonycurzonprice</a></p> Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:29:34 -0000 http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/inside/2008/02/the_last_post.html <p>One final question Emily, and I hope you will reply:<br /><br />Have you seen Paul Gogarty's website, where he boasts about his ability to place travel-related articles in the mainstream media?<br /><br />http://www.paulgogartycommunications.co.uk/media_contact.aspx<br /><br />And if you're now seeing it for the first time, does it explain to you better our indignance?<br /><br />Again, congratulations for being the first one to come down to talk to us, so to speak.</p><p><strong>Highlights and Sticky Notes:</strong><p><div class="content"><p>One final question Emily, and I hope you will reply:</p> <p>Have you seen Paul Gogarty's website, where he boasts about his ability to place travel-related articles in the mainstream media?</p> <p><a href="http://www.paulgogartycommunications.co.uk/media_contact.aspx">http://www.paulgogartycommunications.co.uk/media_contact.aspx</a></p> <p>And if you're now seeing it for the first time, does it explain to you better our indignance?</p> <p>Again, congratulations for being the first one to come down to talk to us, so to speak.</p></div></p><p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice/macarthur' rel='tag'>macarthur</a> </p><p><strong>Posted by:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice'>tonycurzonprice</a></p> Sun, 24 Feb 2008 05:29:36 -0000 http://www.theglobalist.com/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=6162 <p>We are entering a world where users can accomplish more with a click of a mouse than lawyers and bankers can do with threats of a lawsuit and angry phone calls to the chief executive</p><p><strong>Highlights and Sticky Notes:</strong><p><div class="content">We are entering a world where users can accomplish more with a click of a mouse than lawyers and bankers can do with threats of a lawsuit and angry phone calls to the chief executive</div></p><p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice/macarthur' rel='tag'>macarthur</a> </p><p><strong>Posted by:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice'>tonycurzonprice</a></p> Sun, 24 Feb 2008 04:41:08 -0000 http://www.theglobalist.com/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=6466 <p>Hoping to defeat the complex network of invisible insurgents who have a panoply of tools and anonymity options unmatched by the corporate world, is not only naïve — it carries big publicity costs for those who are convinced otherwise.<br /><br />What's worse (for the companies), many contemporary legal regimes — particularly in Scandinavian countries — provide a legal shelter for these cyberactivists-turned-insurgents, and there is no indication that such laws will become stricter. If anything, they might be relaxed.</p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice/macarthur' rel='tag'>macarthur</a> </p><p><strong>Posted by:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice'>tonycurzonprice</a></p> Sun, 24 Feb 2008 04:37:53 -0000 http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/media/blind_newsmaker <p>So, with these two types of institutions in mind, can we rest assured that the pieces of the newspaper will be re-assembled with no loss? Or will there be a systematic ``blind spot'' created by the mechanisms of fragmentation and re-aggregation? Conceptually the blind-spot is plainly there: where what is produced depends for any part of its character on the particular aggregate that it will form, the breaking of the link between the pieces of lego and the final assemblage will change what lego is built.</p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice/macarthur' rel='tag'>macarthur</a> </p><p><strong>Posted by:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice'>tonycurzonprice</a></p> Sat, 23 Feb 2008 15:21:29 -0000 http://time-blog.com/work_in_progress/2008/02/death_of_the_american_foreign.html <p>Death of the American foreign correspondent</p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice/anthony-barnett' rel='tag'>anthony-barnett</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice/macarthur' rel='tag'>macarthur</a> </p><p><strong>Posted by:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice'>tonycurzonprice</a></p> Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:50:14 -0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/07/05/networked-journalism <p>I think a better term for what I’ve been calling “citizen journalism” might be “networked journalism.”</p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice/charlie-beckett' rel='tag'>charlie-beckett</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice/macarthur' rel='tag'>macarthur</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice/network-journalism' rel='tag'>network-journalism</a> </p><p><strong>Posted by:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice'>tonycurzonprice</a></p> Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:49:33 -0000 http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=39147&c=1 <p>Networked journalism is where the people formerly known as the audience contribute to the whole editorial process. The public write blogs, take pictures, gather information and comment as part of newsgathering and publishing. The professional journalists become filters, connectors, facilitators and editors. </p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice/charlie-beckett' rel='tag'>charlie-beckett</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice/journalism' rel='tag'>journalism</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice/macarthur' rel='tag'>macarthur</a> </p><p><strong>Posted by:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice'>tonycurzonprice</a></p> Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:41:10 -0000 http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.03/economy.ideas.html <p>If our property can be infinitely reproduced and instantaneously distributed all over the planet without cost, without our knowledge, without its even leaving our possession, how can we protect it? How are we going to get paid for the work we do with our minds? And, if we can't get paid, what will assure the continued creation and distribution of such work?</p><p><strong>Highlights and Sticky Notes:</strong><p><div class="content">we are sailing into the future on a sinking ship.</div></p><p><div class="content">Digital technology is detaching information from the physical plane, where property law of all sorts has always found definition.</div></p><p><div class="content">Law protected expression and, with few (and recent) exceptions, to express was to make physical.</div></p><p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice/economics' rel='tag'>economics</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice/jz' rel='tag'>jz</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice/macarthur' rel='tag'>macarthur</a> </p><p><strong>Posted by:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice'>tonycurzonprice</a></p> Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:19:29 -0000 http://blog.pmarca.com/2008/02/inaugurating-th.html <p>I hereby inaugurate my New York Times Deathwatch, which will continue until the last Sulzberger has left the building.</p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice/advertising' rel='tag'>advertising</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice/journalism' rel='tag'>journalism</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice/macarthur' rel='tag'>macarthur</a> </p><p><strong>Posted by:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice'>tonycurzonprice</a></p> Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:50:56 -0000 http://kenyaelections07.marsgroupkenya.org/data/aspirants/?parlid=1340&page=1 <p>Governance and Accountabilty Record</p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice/corruption' rel='tag'>corruption</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice/macarthur' rel='tag'>macarthur</a> </p><p><strong>Posted by:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice'>tonycurzonprice</a></p> Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:35:41 -0000 http://kenyaelections07.marsgroupkenya.org/data/check_aspirant/index.php?exact&asp=272&a=Kirwa <p>Check your nominee's anti-corruption record<br />Aspirant Name: </p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice/macarthur' rel='tag'>macarthur</a> </p><p><strong>Posted by:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice'>tonycurzonprice</a></p> Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:29:16 -0000 http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/taking_obama_seriously <p>Rajeev Bhargava wrote in openDemocracy in 2002 on the importance of India's constitution as &quot;a weapon of security and protection&quot;: &quot;Words are not mere ‘pieces of paper'. They become effective when believed in, and powerful when institutionalised and made legitimate.&quot;</p><p><strong>Highlights and Sticky Notes:</strong><p><div class="content">the underlying struggle - between worlds of plenty and worlds of want; between the modern and the ancient; between those who embrace our teeming, colliding, irksome diversity, while still insisting on a set of values that binds us together, and those who would seek, under whatever flag or slogan or sacred text, a certainty and simplification that justifies cruelty towards those who are not like us - is the struggle set forth, on a miniature scale in this book.</div></p><p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice/cheap-talk' rel='tag'>cheap-talk</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice/macarthur' rel='tag'>macarthur</a> </p><p><strong>Posted by:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice'>tonycurzonprice</a></p> Thu, 07 Feb 2008 10:30:10 -0000 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0v-I9E30uc&feature=related <p>le journaliste nya nya nyi!nya nya nya!de lyon mag est cuit sur le barbecue intelectuel de tariq ramadan <br /><br />ramadan vs. feminist. argument &amp; passion</p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice/macarthur' rel='tag'>macarthur</a> </p><p><strong>Posted by:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice'>tonycurzonprice</a></p> Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:04:51 -0000 http://youtube.com/watch?v=t6O18b7B_gU&feature=related <p>Emission Riposte du 28/01/2007 animée par Serge Moati.<br />Au programme, une discussion en face-à-face avec Philippe de Villiers, qui sera ensuite confronté à Tariq Ramadan et Elisabeth Guigou. (less)<br /><br />17:35 -the epitome of opposing pov's</p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice/macarthur' rel='tag'>macarthur</a> </p><p><strong>Posted by:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice'>tonycurzonprice</a></p> Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:23:32 -0000 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh4R0ZLpjNg&NR=1 <p>The police try intimidation on me for filming them. Good cop bad cop routine. </p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice/macarthur' rel='tag'>macarthur</a> </p><p><strong>Posted by:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/tonycurzonprice'>tonycurzonprice</a></p> Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:44:30 -0000 60