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That’s the question being asked in Norway after a political journalist “was criticized because she was a “fan” of the Norwegian Prime Minister, Jens Stoltenberg, on Facebook.” (via Bente) Related posts:Another wiki warning [Keyword: onlinejournalism]. Poynter reports on the amusing ... [Link]
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[...] There is no shelf. (There is no Page One.) Mindy McAdams “loves this video.” So do I. [...]
October 26, 2007 at 3:15 pmVery creative. Great thoughts.
Pity the audio was so thoughtless (I was surprised to see “song” credits; I figured it was a set of Apple Soundtrack loops)…
October 26, 2007 at 6:41 pmAnother one of Michael Wesch’s videos. Heard about him last night on Future Tense on NPR. Here’s a blog entry from that show with link to his Web site. Cool stuff!
October 26, 2007 at 9:03 pmWesch’s blog: Digital Ethnography
The blog post Nick referred to: The Machine Is Using Us
October 26, 2007 at 11:14 pmYes http://www.shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html
October 28, 2007 at 4:44 pmAnd yes indeed
http://www.futureofthebook.org/blog/archives/2005/04/the_only_group_that_can_organi.html
Oh, and Ikm:
Who cares if the music was Apple Soundtrack loops or a sample of Tubular Bells? That “thoughtless” heartbeat helped bring that concept to life.
Bravo.
Nice links, Tony! Thanks!
I agree, the music does not bother me. It helps knit everything together. Punctuates. Greases the skids. (How’s that for a disparate bunch o’ metaphors?)
October 28, 2007 at 5:44 pmVery clever, very well done. But maybe also a bit fuzzy on the logic? Google may not have categories as such but still relies on keywords. And finding information may be quicker, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s any easier. The statistics about the sheer amount of information on the internet are impressive, but what that doesn’t tell us is how interesting or accurate all of those millions of words are.
October 29, 2007 at 7:14 amThe thing is - there’s still a role for experts in the new digital age (and you can read ‘journalists’ for ‘experts’ here). It’s not that experts/journalists are irrelvant (as some of the most enthusiastic converts seem to argue)- it’s that we need to radically rethink, what they do, how they do it and - at a very basic level - who they are.
[...] Busy week, so until I can post again, I thought I’d share this video that saw on Mindy McAdams’ blog (where she compared “the shelf” to “Page One”): [...]
October 30, 2007 at 10:54 pm