Curation vs. Creation
Down the drain…. Yesterday, I got sucked into a twitter discussion (if such a think is possible) with Shira Lazar, the new host of CBS’s What’s Trending, Steve Rosenbaum, author of Curation Nation and a few others after I...
Read moreWhen Your World Gets Blown Apart
The iPad of the 19th Century The New York Times reported yesterday that nationally people are at a ‘low mood’ when they think about the future of the economy and the nation. There are short-term fixes, but in a longer...
Read moreWhy SxSW is Wrong.. and so it a lot of the web
But I’m a vegetarian…… I was just over at Buzzmachine.com, Jeff Jarvis’ blog – which is on my daily morning ‘must read’ list. I was astonished to read the opening sentence: Please vote for my session at South by...
Read moreEntrepreneurial Journalism..do we even have to ask?
hung over, crap car, crap apartment… and this is a role model? Ken Kobre, who I admire a lot, is asking the question on his blog: ‘Now you have to be an entrepreneur too’ Kobre’s question is derivative of...
Read moreFlash – This Just In!
Can you guys embed video? I am down at the US Government Run Telegraph Office filing my blog this morning. That would be the US Government Supported Telegraph Office. That would be the result of the US Government bail-out...
Read moreJournalists as Entrepreneurs….or not….
it’s over… I like Alan Mutter and I always read his blog, Reflections of a Newsousaur. So yesterday, when my old J-School classmate and current professor at Stony Brook, Barbara Selvin emailed me and asked what I thought of...
Read moreWhat is a Citizen Journalist?
Running the BBC courses on the beach at Newcastle-on-Tyne Last month, Dirck Halstead ran a provocative piece in his Digitaljouranlist.org asking whether we should abolish the term ‘Citizen Journalist’. This fired off the predictable howl-around, including a thread in...
Read moreHas Journalism Been Voted Off The Island?
Which one writes for The Chicago Tribune? In early December the Federal Trade Commission is going to hold a series of hearings on the collapse of the journalism business. It is good that the federal government is paying attention...
Read moreTen Years After
Alvin Lee, Going home….. As a child of Woodstock I have always believed in living the dream. The last two days I had the unique experience of seeing both sides of the dream. On Tuesday, I went to SUNY...
Read moreHow To Make Millions in Journalism
Wake up!!! OK. So yesterday I had my meeting with Nick Lemann, the Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. I pitched him my concept. Here it is: 1. Â I want to run a course at...
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