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March 11, 2010

Hal Varian explains the state of newspapers

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January 4, 2010

1 hour primer on the future of hardcore journalism by Clay Shirky


read more at NiemanJournalismLab, Harvard

actually, he calls it accountability journalism...


Some key thoughts

The underlying principles of the newspaper of the 1900s are skewed in three ways, making it possible to sustain a business model for journalism.

  • the advertisers were overpaying
  • the advertisers were underserved (seems tautological, but he means that journalism were independent of "commercialism" since advertisers could not influence by exit - "fine leave, but where else are you going to go, we are the newspaper of this region"...)
  • newspapers were a bundled product practically cross-subsidizing journalism....

Newspapers have been a commercial product that has delivered public utility by keeping the governent accountable.
There is no one new model to replace the newspapers (today providing 85% of accountability journalism), the demise of traditional media will entail a loss of accountability journalism and therefore public utility.

There are alternatives like social production of accountability journalism (wikileaks, opengov etc.) and sponsored/non-profit production (the New Yorker, Public Service Media etc.). The former is greatly benefiting of the internet, but the latter will also be needed to fill the gap. While the old paradigm of newspapers is tumbling down, new sources of accountability journalism are growing, but not fast enough.

The error of the newspaper model is not the model itself, but the fact that this one model have constituted 85% of important scrutiny and reporting...


I guess the heavy reliance on Public Service Media in Sweden can prove to be a good thing after all....

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December 5, 2009

Readability - great for reading (...) , perfect for tablet use but maybe yet another one of those darn invetions that erode the business model of traditional newspapers

A very cool idea and it works surprisingly well.

Go to lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ and install it right away.
(or read more at lab.arc90.com >> readability )

via @gnat

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November 13, 2009

Digital etnografi

Det låter tråkigt och fjällräven kånken men är riktigt intressant och förmodligen viktigt.

Sverige: Inculture AB och Katarina Graffman.
Från Daytona Sessions tidigare i år:

US: Kansas University och Dr. Michael Wesch - Digital ethnography
Klassiska The machines are us/ing us

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October 19, 2009

Media Convergence Forum

“The computer in your cell phone today is 1m times cheaper, and 1k times more powerful and 100 times smaller than one computer in MIT in 1965. So what used to fit in a building, now fits in your pocket and will fit inside a blood cell in 25 years.” – Ray Kurzweil


The economist anordnar Media convergence Forum i NYC 20e okt, där Jack Dorsey och Jeff Jarvis kommer snacka.
mediaconvergence.economist.com
De har gjort en snygg promovideo:
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