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Five Key Reasons Why Newspapers Are Failing, pt. 2 | Politics & Media | SPLICETODAY.COM
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The web doesn’t reward blandness. It doesn’t really like the obvious, the inoffensive and the established. Today, if you published a web page with the headlines I just listed on it—you know, starting with “Wooden Memories” and going right on down to “Great Gifts for Teachers”—you wouldn’t get many readers. In this way, the web mercilessly exposes the flaccidness of the content of most papers. It creates a straightjacket for them: As they desperately bland themselves out on land, the material they have on hand to impress in cyberspace is correspondingly pallid.
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A daily newspaper presents a platter to readers. You don’t have to eat everything on it, but you’re not getting anything that wasn’t sent out from the kitchen originally. And over the years editors have learned not to put anything spicy on that platter.
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Web Science: Studying the Internet to Protect Our Future: Scientific American
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Little appreciated, however, is the fact that the Web is more than the sum of its pages. Vast emergent properties have arisen that are transforming society. E-mail led to instant messaging, which has led to social networks such as Facebook. The transfer of documents led to file-sharing sites such as Napster, which have led to user-generated portals such as YouTube. And tagging content with labels is creating online communities that share everything from concert news to parenting tips.
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Web science was launched as a formal discipline in November 2006, when the two of us and our colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Southampton in England announced the beginning of a Web Science Research Initiative. Leading researchers from 16 of the world’s top universities have since expanded on that effort.
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The Future of Media is much like its Past - broadstuff
possibly, apart from the fact that media may not be what we think it is in a distributed decentralise environment. it's like saying horse carriage and plane are both *transport* but there is a world of difference in their execution. In most fundamental way, media means 'mediating' something, which is a role that tends to disappear in a peer to peer distributed environment. Why keep calling it media then? It is a different way of communication and distribution all together.
YouTube - 2008 Latest Edition - Did You Know 3.0 - From Meeting in Rome this Year
interesting numbers. mindblowing juxtapositions. still, it comes down to individual effort, emotional nature of which doesn't change much, even if technology makes it a lot easier.
Schneier on Security: Privacy in the Age of Persistence
"Being constantly scrutinized undermines our social norms; furthermore, it's creepy. Privacy isn't just about having something to hide; it's a basic right that has enormous value to democracy, liberty, and our humanity."
What Bruce Sterling Actually Said About Web 2.0 at Webstock 09 | Beyond the Beyond from Wired.com
This has just been elevated to my Pantheon of 'must read' pieces. :)
Why Small Payments Won’t Save Publishers « Clay Shirky
We’re not customers and we’re certainly not consumers. We’re users. We don’t consume content, we use it, and mostly what we use it for is to support our conversations with one another, because we’re media outlets now too.
YouTube - 1981 primitive Internet report on KRON
one of the coolest things I have seen for a long time, from several perspectives. worth remembering when we make our statements about the future - note the closing remark by the news anchor...
Backbone Magazine - A new dark age
problems of long term storage, interesting solution at Sandford
Air Travel Won't Suck in 2093 | Autopia from Wired.com
sounds wonderful. but for now could we just have flights on time and without being treated like cattle? Thnx!
Urgent Deadline for Newspapers: Find a New Business Plan before You Vanish - Knowledge@Wharton
tychoish, open source futurism
interesting categorisation or list of open source-ish type of trends and phenomena
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