Posted in what we're reading on Jan 10th, 2008
Firedoglake - Firedoglake weblog » Media Analysis: The “Tweety Effect†Runs Rampant
An analysis of mainstream media coverage of the New Hampshire primary and the vitriol spewed at Clinton. I personally think Chris Matthews has a long, unrequited crush on Hilary. It’s as if he’s in sixth grade, ran up and pulled her hair [...]
Posted in what we're reading on Jan 10th, 2008
10 semantic apps to watch
an early roundup of the new breed of search engines
(tags: web 3_0 csm)
Print is dead: long live print - Times Online
“At NewWest.Net, we’re actually launching a print magazine in a few weeks; print was always part of the plan, and everything we have experienced so far suggests that this is [...]
Posted in what we're reading on Jan 9th, 2008
Modern Dragons: Citizendium
“Larry Sanger, the co-founder of Wikipedia who later quit the project over differences in vision, just announced a direct competitor to the project: Citizendium. In short, it’s a Wikipedia-style site with a focus on building a more scholarly, expert-centr
(tags: public_media blogme)
Posted in what we're reading on Jan 8th, 2008
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation: community map
(tags: csm media_maps)
Facebook’s Appearance For Presidential Debate Disappoints
“…the whole effort was altogether meaningless. It finished the evening as host to a perfect storm (not the good kind) of nonsense that can only be described as such: Crap.”
(tags: csm buildtheecho electoin)
Posted in what we're reading on Jan 6th, 2008
Zygotic Social Networking - New York Times
(tags: cool_maps)
Posted in what we're reading on Jan 5th, 2008
TPM TV
(tags: buildtheecho web_20 election)
Who Is The Openest Of Them All?
(tags: csm blogme open)
Media Re:public
(tags: csm researchers)
Australia Joins China In Censoring The Internet
(tags: blogme csm open)
Posted in what we're reading on Jan 4th, 2008
What’s Needed in 2008: Serious Newsroom Cultural Change
very interesting take on what’s needed internally. can be thought of for individual organizations as well as what’s needed on to change the dynamic of the progressive media sector as well. key words are innovation, creativity, collaboration, and go where
(tags: buildtheecho business_models death_of_print multiplatform)
News & Politics: The [...]
Posted in what we're reading on Jan 4th, 2008
saschameinrath.com | public ponderings…
(tags: csm researchers)
Posted in what we're reading on Jan 3rd, 2008
Boing Boing links to CSM study on user-generated content
(tags: csm public_media)
(tags: csm buildtheecho business_models blogme)
Posted in media bias on Jan 2nd, 2008
From John K. Carlisle at the National Legal and Policy Center, which bills itself as “promoting ethics in public life”:
The long-term decline in newspaper circulation presents the conservative movement with an excellent opportunity to increase its influence with the media. …If conservative nonprofit organizations significantly increase their use of investigative reporting, then the movement will be able [...]