Recently readJeff Jarvis:
Yahoo [is] the last old media company to look at the world this way (along with all the older media companies): ‘We control content. We market to get you to come to us. Then we feed you as much advertising as we can, until you leave.’ That’s the centralized model of media. I contrasted […]
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Luke Ford is on something of a roll right now. First, a journalist asks, Who has time to read blogs? Luke answers:
Who has time to read good new books? Nobody has time to read all the good new books, yet I don’t read Daphne Merkin wondering about that…People will read what they believe they will […]
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When asked a long time ago to define what it meant to me, I said it’s the name we’ll give to the next crash.
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Oh, man. There’s a lamentable piece in PR Week right now about blogging. I must say that the journalist in question, Peter Crush, has actually done a decent job of putting this story together, for the most part. I know smart people who read it and found it useful, and I’m sure others will, too. […]
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It’s the fastest five minutes I’ve ever spent on YouTube, interestingly, and really cheered me up. I’d love to show this (via Guido) to all of the people who love to tell me how there’s nothing especially interesting or earth-shattering about what we are now doing online. Oh, really?
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I was supposed to spend some quality time with Adriana yesterday, not having seen her since we were working together in New York last week, but unfortunately was (am) still unwell. Well, my loss is your gain, as it looks like she finally got down to some blogging. I am always yelling at her to […]
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Janet Street-Porter’s account of working a stint as a nurse’s aide in an NHS hospital was interesting, but…I thought she was some kind of world-class journo, in which case, why is the piece so poorly and blandly written? It reads like a sixth former’s essay completed under a looming deadline. I’m genuinely puzzled.
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Contrary to what is being reported by the BBC and other media, blogger Guido Fawkes is the one who lodged the formal complaint with the Charities Commission that many are saying could bring down PM-in-waiting Gordon Brown, not the Conservative ‘opposition’. You’d think reporters would spot the juicy story that lies in the truth; either […]
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Cathy Seipp:
One of the big problems facing our beloved L.A. Times, after all, is its entrenched mediocrity, which is hard to improve upon when the standard response to criticism of anything involving L.A. Times staffers is an outraged, “But he’s such a nice guy!”
Case in point: The wretched failure of the probably soon-to-be-closed Sunday magazine […]
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Luke Ford (who, annoyingly, has no permalinks):
…LA Times staffers are like a battered wife who dreams about being rescued. Times staffers are so desperate that they’ll imagine good things about a vindictive man such as Geffen.
The Tribune is a professional newspaper operation and the LA Times has been vastly improved by the Tribune’s weeding out […]
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This morning, I called the reporter who wanted to write a story about what happened to me, so I could tell him I did not want to do it. He was “in conference,” so I left a message explaining my decision. I’m in no doubt that this is the right one for me. Thanks for […]
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And they say bloggers have a hard time getting the facts right…
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The Evening Standard wants to do a story about my assault. I am of two minds about this:
1) It could help make people more aware of how to travel more safely on trains (no standing right next to the platform, headphones on, unaware of who’s coming up behind you) and that they can use technology, […]
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On my way out to the Eagle Bar Diner last night, I was chuffed to see Hugh’s cartoons on the BBC 6 O’clock News as they did a big story on the Threshers deal. (Short version: Hugh and the guys at Stormhoek blogged a voucher for 40 per cent off all alcohol purchases from Threshers. […]
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