how danah gathers her news

there is no there there. google's social products suffer by not creating a place to be social.

Racism. sexism, misogyny: marketing. Spurious arguments even in context.

Even Murdoch can't change the commodity market. "online, the Times has stopped being a newspaper, in the sense of a generally available and omnibus account of the news of the day, broadly read in the community. Instead, it is becoming a newsletter, an outlet supported by, and speaking to, a specific and relatively coherent and compact audience."

From web to print. "The Journal Register Company’s Ben Franklin Project is an opportunity to re-imagine the newsgathering process with the focus on Digital First and Print Last. Using only free tools found on the Internet, the project will – from assigning to editing- create, publish and distribute news content on both the web and in print"

is longstanding recommendation that they should shut down their print editions and embrace the Web wholeheartedly. “You gotta burn the boats,” he told me, “you gotta commit.” His point is that if traditional media companies don’t burn their own boats, somebody else will.

Second of two recent columns dissing twitter as a waste of time. Again, no evidence, a lot of straw arguments, and invoking the usual scary tropes and commonplaces: we aren't reading Great Works, Losing the Craft of the Thank You Note ... Comments from readers show insight.

One of two recent columns on why twitter is a waste of time - the arguments really seem that thin and puritan. It's a diversion from Real Work and Real Contact. Lots of name calling. Lots of fallacies. Little evidence.

Projects and products that oscillate between digital and atoms, collaboration. digital / material mashups and re-mediations

Howard Rheingold's Digital Journalism syllabus in socialtext wiki

Books -- illustrations - Analogue print in digital

1937 essay, considering principles that are "useful for the formulation of revolutionary demands in the politics of art."

Adam Pasick, 31, is the Reuters bureau chief in the virtual world of Second Life. Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, h

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