We can try but the paywall discussion won't go anywhere. There's no news about it until there is news about it, and when there is news about it all the previous discussion will be rendered clueless, inane and beside the point. - Jay Rosen

One thing I'd like to know from Jennifer what the social media editor's job is, what "forces" led to its creation, and how she has defined and re-defined it in the months since she began. - Jay Rosen

Also worth discussing: the merging of tech and newsroom cultures at the New York Times with the growth of their geek squad, a topic which mirrors in some ways the editorial logic of Rebooting the News, in that the show brings together the tech world and the journalism world. - Jay Rosen

I just watched your nerdtv thing again, and the last 7 minutes of it are very relevant to the Droid discussion http://tr.im/EBXO - dai_vernon

Okay, scratch the paywall thing, you're right, and you should ask that basic question, definitely. - Dave Winer

I'm online now - Dave Winer

New York Times names first social media editor http://www.guardian.co.uk/media... Jonathan Landman says: "It's someone who concentrates full-time on expanding the use of social media networks and publishing platforms to improve New York Times journalism and deliver it to readers. Jennifer will work closely with editors, reporters, bloggers and others to use social tools to find sources, track trends, and break news as well as to gather it. She will help us get comfortable with the techniques, share best practices and guide us on how to more effectively engage a larger share of the audience on sites like Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, Flickr, Digg, and beyond..." - Jay Rosen

Lists seem important to aggregate topics, but most people talk about more than one topic despite being appropriate for a particular list. What might the next step be to mold lists into news sources. In other words, how can the we raise the signal to noise when we want to follow a specific news topic. - Matt Terenzio

Why did they pick someone that didn't know social media already to be the social media editor? - Matt Terenzio

A little disappointing we didn't hear much about the NYTimes listening in the social space. I think I heard mostly about new ways to get The Audience to listen to the Times. - Amyloo