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/Message: What’s A Fish Without A Bicycle?
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The first paragraph in the selection above is something I was talking about the other day in an interview on this topic. The industrial era, integrated newspaper -- with horoscopes, wedding announcements, politics, sports, comics, movies reviews and restaurant profiles -- is going away. It may have made sense, as a convenience, when papers were delivered to your driveway, or read on the subway. But moving online, that model is rapidly changing.
And who thinks that it makes sense? Are all papers equally good at all sorts of journalism? Do I need the NY Times to have a sports section? Or review movies?
We are seeing the vertical supply chain of newspapers being blown apart into horizontal focus areas. That's why the most interesting journalism start-ups are focused on one area, like politics, sports, or social change.
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I am a fan of local news, but that is not the sole focus of big city newspapers. They print car reviews, movie reviews, and stories about pirates in Somalia, none of which are local. They are a blur of things, and no one has ever tried to unblur them, really.
I suggest that what emerges from Shirky's media revolution will be something profoundly unlike big city newspapers, today. They may jettison a lot of what is taken for granted, as well as inventing something that will attract people's attention in this 21st century. It may be television blended with the web in some addictive way, like the Twitter mashups we are seeing on network news shows. But it won't come from newspapers fighting rear guard actions like paywalls.
Whitworth - Reinventing academic publishing online - Part 1 Rigor, relevance, and practice
at First Monday by Brian Whitworth and Rob Friedman
"While current computing practice abounds with innovations like online auctions, blogs, wikis, twitter, social networks and online social games, few if any genuinely new theories have taken root in the corresponding “top” academic journals. Those creating computing progress increasingly see these journals as unreadable, outdated and irrelevant. Yet as technology practice creates, technology theory is if anything becoming even more conforming and less relevant. We attribute this to the erroneous assumption that research rigor is excellence, a myth contradicted by the scientific method itself. Excess rigor supports the demands of appointment, grant and promotion committees, but is drying up the wells of academic inspiration."
Hack Day tools for non-developers
For our first hack day, I put together a list of “tools for non-developers”—sites, services and software that could be used for hacking without programming knowledge as a pre-requisite.
E-Learning Queen: E-Learner Survival Guide: Free Download for E-Learning Queen Readers
E-Learning Queen readers may download a free pdf of E-Learner Survival Guide, a collection of articles, insights, instructional strategies, lesson plans, and more.
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When Falls the Coliseum
Welcome to When Falls the Coliseum: a journal of American culture (or lack thereof). This site can best be described as a conversation about America. A sometimes loud conversation. An often funny one.
Finding Innovation in Design - Bokardo
In Chapter 2 of my book Designing for the Social Web, I introduce and talk about what I call the AOF method. AOF stands for Activity, Objects, and Features. First you determine and research the activity you’re going to support. This helps you identify the social objects within that activity and the actions people take on those social objects. These objects and actions become your feature set.
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