By Mindy McAdams
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How to become a (dying) dinosaur:
When I entered Disney, it was like a classic Cadillac Phaeton that had been left out in the rain … The company’s thought process was not, “We have all this amazing machinery — how do we use it to make exciting things? We could go to Mars in this rocket […]
A small news roundup …
Reporters Without Borders: Beijing 2008
The Economist: Still Simmering (March 28) and Welcome to the Olympics (March 27)
Global Voices: Tibet Protests 2008
BBC News: China Allows Diplomats into Tibet (March 28); excellent backgrounders in right-hand sidebar; Profile: The Dalai Lama
Update (3:20 p.m.):
James Fallows posted an interesting example of the Rashomon effect.
The Chinese […]
This is just plain cool — especially if, like me, you cut your teenage teeth on the Talking Heads in the 1970s: Byrne has a diary blog, and he wrote a big long entry about his VIP tour of the new New York Times editorial offices, including — I am not kidding — a karaoke/air […]
If you’re going to build a social networking site online for a geographical community — what I like to think of as a “real world” community — what software will you use?
You might think with all the free and open source tools available, the hardest part would be choosing one. Not so. According to an […]
At my university, we are playing host to 17 journalism educators from 17 countries, most of which are “developing” rather than “developed.” We have arranged six weeks of lectures, workshops and travel for them with the goal of increasing their understanding of how we practice and teach journalism in the U.S.
Of course they all use […]
From an excellent New York Magazine story about the way twenty-somethings bare all online and seem to have very different opinions about personal privacy from those of us forty-somethings:
Shirky describes this generational shift in terms of pidgin versus Creole. “Do you know that distinction? Pidgin is what gets spoken when people patch things together from […]
PaidContent is keeping an eye on MySpace and the other social sites popular among young people:
MySpace had 6 per cent more visits than Bebo last week but three months ago that was 39 per cent. Bebo has already overtaken MySpace in terms of session duration which averages around 25 minutes. Faceparty and Facebook have both […]
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