As the world kept him thinking in turns so would the blank, empty, undiluted space in the upper right corner of his unimaginative American blog. It left itself for last - as if it knew it was much too smart for him - as if the search bar that had once been there was an overture to another space in time - as if that corner meant more than it really did.
Notes
Notes are the default blog postings – the thoughts that are heavier than 140 characters, more than one link, and simple enough to not warrant too much explicating.
The Rocky Mountain News and the Newsroom of the Future
This video is illuminating. If you want to know – to really know – why the newspaper is a failing medium then just watch this report from the Rocky Mountain News. (more AND video after the jump)
A conversation with Marc Andreessen
This kept me up past my bed time last night. All in all a pretty good conversation between Marc Andreessen and Charlie Rose – although Andreessen tends to come off as a bit manic (if not maniacal) and Rose a bit assumptive. (More commentary and video after jump)
Brill’s Plan to save journalism has holes.
When it rains it pours – yet another titan of the corporate media model offers a scheme to “fix” the New York Times. In this memo Steve Brill puts his bias for corporate supported journalism on full display in a plan that rivals Mr. Isaacson for its sheer ignorance of developing and significant trends with regard to human information consumption.
Why Newspapers Must Die
Simply put, newspapers cannot be saved. They are big bloated, convoluted corporate anachronisms that derive their strength and power from an economic model of news information that is in rapid and steep decline. These corporate entities were built and grew powerful in an age when new information was remote, precious, scarce, capital.
DiSO Dashboard Inspires an Open Plea
Imagine a day when a reader – coming to your site because your are a trusted source of high quality editorial content that resonates deeply with them – can give you more than just an email. Imagine that reader giving you the key to their entire social life. You can instantly connect them to their friends already on site – direct them to highly relevant content – give them a valuable contextual relationship from the outset. All they had to do was fill in a field and click a button – all they ask for in return is what you have always given them: respect and quality content.
Clear Magazine PRINTS a paperless magazine
Clear Magazine has done something interesting – they printed a magazine without killing one tree. Not one. And perhaps the most interesting aspect of this news is that it is more than a month old. Yes friends while we were all obsessing over the imploding magazine market, the legions of let go media workers, [...]
The Designful Company
Something deep inside me – call it the ghost of the slacker English Major arrogance – wants to recoil at writing and thought geared toward business. I have always felt that the deep truths, genuine epiphany, and intellectual stimulation, just could not be found in writings on management. And to some extent this [...]
Listening at the edge of probability
Planning for any emergency or crisis requires that the planner be able to ideate and chart solutions for the most pessimistic of possible outcomes. For me – given the current economic state – that means listening not only to the more conservative “things will work out” analysts, but also the “sky is falling” folks who [...]
It’s funny because it’s true
I – like a lot of people – have found the tone and the undertone of the McCain campaign (or perhaps the campaign’s stoking of the “base” element of the right wing) to be both disgusting and frightening. So it’s nice to see some good old fashion satire that takes the hate and [...]
Deconstructing Esquire
It’s no secret that corporate media mishandled the Internet. Sure they built sites and trumpeted homepages, but they never really understood, never actually stopped to listen to the culture that the web ran on… they never even realized they had to. To traditional print media, the web was just another output… another way to spread whatever content they had. They were totally blindsided by the transformation of the passive reader into the active user.
Listening To
- Megafaun – Columns
- Ben Harper and Relentless7 – Up to You Now (Live At Sirius Radio)
- The Jealous Girlfriends – I Quit
- Sufjan Stevens – Jacksonville
- The Beatles – You're Gonna Lose That Girl
- My Morning Jacket – I'm Amazed
- The Beatles – Two of Us
- Crooked Fingers – Weary Arms
- The String Cheese Incident – Intro
- Charlie Hunter Trio – My Son the Hurricane
