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(Best tips I've seen yet for Buzz) RT @louisgray - New Blog Post: Filter, Unfollow Or Get Out of the Way http://blog.louisgray.com/2010...
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Blogged: Journalism/Community Job Going on Farmers Weekly http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archive...
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Goodness, this job looks wonderful.
- Sarah Booker
Oh yeah, I blogged this today: Local media predictions for 2010 and how @heatherchristie jumped on me. http://philipjohn.co.uk/local-m...
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I watched A video every regional newspaper editor (and journalist) should watch http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors...
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Blagetty Blogetty Bragitee!: Hyperlocal 2010: a roundup of predictions - http://madamedotty.blogspot.com/2010...
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The Power User's Guide to Google Chrome, 2009 Edition - Chrome - Lifehacker - http://lifehacker.com/5386582/
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Not long after Chrome's release, our 2008 Chrome Power User's Guide covered its best features for savvy surfers, such as keyboard shortcuts and startup switches. We won't rehash those here; instead we're going to round up the new stuff that's come out since in both the stable and developer build of Chrome. (For reference, as of writing, the stable build of Google Chrome is version number 3.0.195.27, and the developer release is version 4.0.222.12.)
- Paul Bradshaw
How the Guardian reported the rise and rise of the net - http://www.guardian.co.uk/technol...
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@dandavies23 useful suggestions for politics reporting? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2...
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Favstar: Are any of those people with twitter list access that said they wanted to help me test a new feature still around? - http://twitter.com/Favstar...
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Net contributions: how the internet has influenced the English language - http://www.guardian.co.uk/technol...
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@Scobleizer it is not that you were wrong about FriendFeed. It's that everybody else was. Don't sell yourself short.
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i disagree with what robert said about ff on twitter
- Allen Stern
I don't think anyone was wrong about FF. FB just bought it for the tech, IMO.
- Kurt Starnes
Someone must be right and somebody else must be wrong, Kurt. It's all about winner and losers and black and white.
- Ken Sheppardson
Used to be about the green. Looks like it's moving back to that. I say, it's about time.
- Dawn
Kurt: Facebook executives tell me they bought FriendFeed for the team. They gave the team a standing ovation when they first arrived too.
- Robert Scoble
Robert - Well, the FB team made a smart move - but who could have predicted such an event? It still doesn't mean anyone was wrong for using and/or promoting FF. If anything, the FF'rs were right and smart for hitching up to such a company that would eventually be admired and bought by the FB colossus. In a parallel universe, an evolved FF will soon eclipse both FB and Twitter. :->
- Kurt Starnes
I think that's the reason a lot of us felt betrayed by the whole FB acquisition. FF had a kick-butt team of devs and all the sudden they were stolen away... Everything came to a screeching hault. And all FB cares about is making FB like FF. They could care less about the people they left behind (or if they do care, they sure aren't showing it).
- Lindsay
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- Daniel J. Pritchett
+1 Robert. The team is orders of magnitude more valuable to Facebook than the codebase or the community.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
That's what makes it scary though... since neither the community nor codebase is valuable to FB, what's keeping them from shutting it all down? It's just a money drain to them probably. It's probably only staying up as a favor to Paul and team. And as soon as Paul completely loses interest then it might be shut down for good. I think the only reason they don't just shut it down is a bit of a guilt trip. But I could be completely off base.
- Lindsay
It still doesn't mean Robert, Louis or any of the FF user-folk were wrong. That's my point. Unpredictable shit happens.
- Kurt Starnes
Yeah, how can anyone really be "right" or "wrong" where this stuff is concerned? It's all a matter of motivations, money and moods. That stuff changes all the time. What is "right" today can be "wrong" tomorrow.
- Lindsay
Lindsay - Exactly. Like what if Royal Dutch Shell buys Twitter tomorrow because it likes the name - and shuts it down. Who's wrong or right then? ;-)
- Kurt Starnes
from BuddyFeed
@Kurt - the people who built identi.ca?
- Cameron Neylon
Lindsay: as long as Facebook gets FriendFeed's feature set I'll be happy. If Facebook gets a way to import FriendFeed into it I'll be even happier.
- Robert Scoble
Mob Rule! How Users Took Over Twitter | Magazine - http://www.wired.com/magazin...
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Great overview of company, users, history, etc.
- Craig Stoltz
Bing and Twitter: Searching Tweets in Real-Time. The official announcements - http://waynesutton.net/bing-an...
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Bing is Bringing Twitter Search to You - http://www.bing.com/communi...
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SPAM CRACKDOWN: Twitter Mass Suspends Hacked Accounts - http://mashable.com/2009...
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In 2006 13% of the photos uploaded to Flickr were given a CC license; today that number is 4%. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
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Dear Old Media: Don’t just fight to survive, WIN IT!! - http://thehiveiscoming.wordpress.com/2009...
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Thank for sharing this, Louis. I heard from a friend in the newspaper world that it's causing a bit of a stir in his circles this morning. YEAH! ;)
- Dawn
I've always expected that impetus for the Hive is going to have to come from outside the tech world. Still, we'll need geeks to develop it. Hopefully, there are some good ones out there who will appreciate the vision and not spurn it.
- Dawn
Awful analogy, but some fair points.
- David Rothman (☤)
Interesting, although confusing at times (e.g. point n. 3: retreating from the Web might be difficult, IMHO.)
- Rubin Sfadj
I don't know, David...conflicting ideologies, distrust, potential mutual annihilation...grin. ;) Rubin, many newspapers and the wire services are already using Attributor to monitor where their content goes. All they'd have to do is submit takedown notices. Of course, many websites won't abide by them, but the major search engines would have to, so the content would essentially become invisible. The technology that Attributor uses is only going to get better and better.
- Dawn
In a world without editors, readers thrive : http://www.10000words.net/2009...
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Could Google help newspapers monetize the Web ? http://savethemedia.com/2009...
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On retweeting: How broadcasting someone else’s 140 characters helps make a new medium social : http://www.niemanlab.org/2009...
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Multimedia Tip: Editing and converting audio files : http://www.innovativeinteractivity.com/2009...
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MPs intervene as Forced Marriages Act leaves newlyweds facing 18-month separation - http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk...
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Your daily dose of social media required reading - http://www.guardian.co.uk/media...
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Introducing: the journalist of the future : This combines the technical skills the new journalist will need (plus the old ones), new ways of collaborating with audiences and journalists across the globe; and most importantly an entrepreneurial edge to create an army of “creative entrepreneurs”....
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I buy that !
- eric scherer
#Barber #journalism New journalism not w/o weaknesses. Blurring raw and crafted journalism, eg proper sourcing & edit 4 accuracy, taste etc
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#Barber #journalism Raw journalism is opinion-based. And Bloggers are imp. But most don't operate to same standard as craft journos
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Facebook Adds 50 Million Users in 3 Months - http://mashable.com/2009...
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Your daily dose of social media required reading http://www.guardian.co.uk/media...
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Funny how the "information wants to be free" zealots ignore that paid music has largely replaced the rampant piracy of a few years ago.
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But is music 'information'? I think of it as a product. It's one reason I have no problem with magazines charging a subscription to view items on their web pages vs. a newspaper doing the same. To get a little more specific, I don't care if a newspaper wants to charge me to look at their home and garden section, but you don't charge me for information about politics or local issues that affect my daily life.
- Anika
really interesting distinction, Anika -- and I tend to feel the same way, intuitively -- but where do you draw the line between "information" and "product"? after all, good reportage is expensive, too, right?
- Nathan Rein
Well, formally, music is digital information -- it can be copied perfectly and transmitted at no cost and that led some to say, a few years ago that it was futile to try and charge for it much as some say now that print is inevitably going to be free. But policing by the dreaded RIAA and efficient business models (Apple, Amazon, Zune Pass, etc.) showed that people will pay for IP. I...
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- Sprague D
Yes. It's not clear and there will be some areas that are blurry. Let's take the LA Times: The paper has way too many entertainment areas. There is the Calendar Live section. For almost 5 years, that section online was subscription based. Even though I was getting the paper delivered to my house, I still needed to pay more money to access Calendar Live. I thought that was silly for two...
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- Anika
Agree completely -- I used to pay for an NYT online sub (when they still offered one...) but really wanted them to provide more web-centric value ad: interactive features, long-form video interviews, etc. Stuff that leverages the medium.
- Sprague D
I'll gladly pay for music online -- because I believe in compensating people for good work done. But I don't want to pay for music if it is limited by DRM because then I can't enjoy the music. I run Linux and I have a G1, neither of which support DRM. Just because I don't have an iPod or Zune doesn't mean I shouldn't be able to enjoy music. Now that Amazon offers a wide variety of tracks that are DRM-free, I'll gladly pay.
- Travis B. Hartwell
Additionally, as a Free Software advocate, "information wants to be free" doesn't refer just to price to me. It refers to freedom and what you can do with that information. How am I allowed to use that information? DRM and other such things restrict me.
- Travis B. Hartwell
Travis, that's a good point too. I am one of the odd ones who actually read the restrictions on use of software. Since we are self-employed, I feel it's important that I do so. And when I'm plopping down beaucoup bucks, I think that how I use my software should be left up to me.
- Anika
You are right, and this is smart. Y'all might like alot of my blog posts then: http://www.dailypatricia.com
- Patricia
I think this argument has to be placed into history to be fair. The music industry had been playing an unfair game for many years, adding middle-men and screwing both artists and fans through a monopoly on the means of production and distribution. They attempted to legally quash every advance that endangered that monopoly, including kids making mix tapes and home studios. They attempted...
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- Neal "thePuck" Jansons
That said, since the landscape has changed so much, the reaction has spent much of its power, and if people are doing more than casual listening they tend to buy. This is exactly what we would expect and how musicians got paid originally...people paid them because they appreciated the music and wanted to exchange wealth for it. When no one is trying to screw them (too much) people are less likely to try to screw back.
- Neal "thePuck" Jansons
@neal, not really. they didn't think that deeply about it. they were thinking about revenue and money, like any other business would. the reason the music industry failed is because it failed to adapt and adopt a new distribution platform. nobody in the biz sat and conjured up a secret greedy plot to crush the little guy and this is now their karma. it's capitalism, is all. if you don't think internet biz isn't full of this, you're wrong.
- Patricia
@Patricia: I would argue that this is the inherent problem with capitalism, that simply by doing what you are supposed to the system mechanically produces injustices and suffering. A system that, when allowed to follow its natural progression, makes unethical behavior the norm, is unethical. And of course they didn't think about it, but they did it. Lawsuits were waged over cassette...
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- Neal "thePuck" Jansons
That's fine, but the upside of capitalism are many benefits you and i enjoy. be careful tearing down the world neal, especially without a solid idea of what the "right" world will look like. nobody is truly held back in our country, and we are lucky that if this is the least we are taken advantage of. other countries have it much worse than us. my immigrant parents with nothing created...
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- Patricia
Ah, the old "don't rock the boat when you are in it" argument. Of course. Ever heard of a thought-terminating cliche? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... And if no one is held back in this country, then how do you explain all the problems with race, class, religious, and sexual persecution? If all you pay attention to is rhetoric and feel-good anecdotes, then...
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- Neal "thePuck" Jansons
@neal, that's a pretty rude response. you have no idea what i do, who i help, etc. i am living proof that anybody -- and i do mean anybody -- can make it. i teach people how so i see it every day. it's ignorance more than anything that holds people back in this country. that's why empowerment is my social cause. nobody said life was hard, but lucky for us, life being hard is nothing compared to the majority of the world and that includes those mentioned.
- Patricia
You are an anecdote, like any other personal tale.
- Neal "thePuck" Jansons
Statistics say quite the opposite to your claims: most people do not move from lower to higher classes. Perhaps no one is held back, but a lot of people sure do start out a lot further back than others, don't they?
- Neal "thePuck" Jansons
@neal, how involved are you in any social cause? are you working in the field with people? maybe you see something i do not.
- Patricia
And I would say it is rude to dismiss criticism of an unjust system with smiley-faces and feel-good rhetoric about America.
- Neal "thePuck" Jansons
From 98-2003 Free Radio Santa Cruz. 98-present Industrial Workers of the World, Earth First, Food Not Bombs. Now I focus more on internet advocacy and new media.
- Neal "thePuck" Jansons
Also was in a punk band on an indie label (Hellfire Records) throughout and right after high school and ran into all the problems with exclusive distribution deals and so on.
- Neal "thePuck" Jansons
@neal, i'm not smiley faced about america. i'm just pointing out that other countries have it far worse and many, many disadvantaged people rise to the top here with ambition and hard work -- even without education. it is possible and people do it all the time, regardless of whatever walls exist around them. if you've got issues about what you or someone doesn't have, change it. that's...
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- Patricia
It is possible, but not likely, and the happy-shiny rhetoric about no one being held back is simply not true and dismissive as hell. Your parents are the exception to the rule, and while that is heart-warming, it says nothing about the systematic injustices throughout the rest of the system. In fact, because of the inherent ethical problems of the capitalistic system, your parent's...
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- Neal "thePuck" Jansons
@neal, if you're not willing to accept that the walls you think exist may not, or may not in the way you think, that's you refusing to see beyond your opinion, and that no one can win an argument about. i'm sure its insulting to the people who actually are experiencing real disease, hunger and pain in the world that you feel we americans have it so bad but i appreciate your passion for...
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- Patricia
I don't understand your argument. Explain why: people elsewhere have it bad, therefore one should not criticize how people have it here or complain about the injustices here. This is why I called this a thought-suppressing cliche: it is just meant to be a "shut up". I acknowledge others have it worse; others also have it better, too. Those are both facts that seem to have no relation to...
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- Neal "thePuck" Jansons
Whoops, meant Iran, not Iraq, though either work, really.
- Neal "thePuck" Jansons
I'm going to have to agree with Neal. People ARE being held back. The fact that some people can put up a hell of a fight to get what they deserve doesn't mean there aren't inequities, especially since others can expect to receive the desired outcomes without halfway trying (and still others still get the no). Yes, you can be anything, but the price for anything varies from face to face.
- MiniMage, enterRUPPted
Piracy is still rampant, the industries have been running out of scare tactics, though, and so are not making such a huge deal out of it in TV/Print. I would even say that excepting due-in-theater movies, everything is available much earlier now than ever - when they were trying to pass the (ridiculously wide-open) DMCA, things were not anywhere near as easy as they are now (definite)... but I'd say even easier now than a year ago (opinion)
- mjc
The "free", if taken to be "availability" (to trot out the ol "free as in freedom, not free as in beer"), has only gotten better. Lower prices, even it isn't $0, means greater accessibility, low-DRM or no-DRM markets mean increased accessibility and portability (I can take my music with me, independent of device, it's not tied to a specific physical media). And internet distribution...
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- Andy Bakun
Paid digital music has since become more convenient to acquire than illegally downloaded music. It all comes down to convenience. I will gladly spend 10 dollars on an album in iTunes when it downloads faster than looking up a torrent and hoping people seed it, also with my credit card info already stored so it only takes two clicks. We're generally lazy beings. Piracy has not...
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- Daniel Zarick
where is the evidence that "paid music has largely replaced the rampant piracy of a few years ago."? as for the music "industry", no love lost here. I'd much rather buy an album directly from the artist than ever deal with the industry. I'm happy to see an increasing amount of artists adopting this method of distribution.
- jbrotherlove
jbrotherlove- Touch & Go Records (RIP-ish) did a great job with this. They set up a great online store for their whole portfolio of labels that they also distributed with high-quality files too. And I agree... buying direct from the artist is great, but not always possible. The other issue is that you have to know about the artist and trust that your money will be spent well before you buy. Hopefully this will be better implemented in future digital distribution models.
- Daniel Zarick
I think it just illustrates that pirating music is not entirely free. Most people put a premium on their time. Searching P2P and torrent sites has an opportunity cost.
- Victor Ganata
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