Pew on how we get our news these days
Pew Internet has published the results of an important survey on how we’re getting our news today. I haven’t read the whole thing but one little point leaps out already: Among those who get news...
View ArticleAmericans wants news, not newspapers (from sheep to bees)
Pew Internet has released its contribution to Pew’s annual report on the state of the news media. My take on the results: Online users generally want news, but we don’t much care where it comes from....
View ArticleMediabugs: Keeping the media honest since today!
Mediabugs has a live beta up for reporting errors in media reports, initially in San Francisco. The site hopes that media will eventually put “Report an error” links into their online articles, as...
View ArticleNews is a wave
By coincidence, here are two related posts. Gilad and Devin at Social Flow track the enormous kinetic energy of a single twitterer who figured out shortly before President Obama’s announcement that...
View ArticleCultivating New Voices – An event to remember Persephone Miel by
The Berkman Center is hosting what should be a fantastic discussion on July 11 at 5pm. The participants (from an email announcement): Colin Maclay (Berkman Center), Ivan Sigal (executive director of...
View ArticleNews unboxed
I just read the NY Times. In print. Cover to cover, so to speak, although I skipped the parts that didn’t interest me, which were most of the parts at least beyond the second paragraph. Nevertheless, I...
View ArticleOther news
Hanan Cohen has created a neat little world-expander, called Other News. Bookmark this link and click on it a few times. Each time it loads a random country’s version of Google News. Nice!
View ArticleCable remains the main source of political news
Pew Research Center for the People & the Press has released the results of a new survey that shows that cable TV news is remaining the main source of political news. The Internet is climbing as a...
View Article[2b2k] Ethanz on linguistic isolation
Ethan Zuckerman asks a simple question — is there a correlation between how many outside news sources the people in a country consult and whether those people’s language is spoken mainly in their own...
View Article[2b2k] My world leader can beat up your world leader
There’s a knowingly ridiculous thread at Reddit at the moment: Which world leader would win if pitted against other leaders in a fight to the death. The title is a straightline begging for punchlines....
View ArticleReason #554 we need gigabit Internet connections
Despite the claims of some — and unfortunately some of these some run the companies that provide the US with Internet access — there are n reasons why we need truly high-speed, high-capacity Internet...
View ArticleWhat open APIs could do for the news
In 2008-9, NPR, the NY Times, and The Guardian opened up public APIs, hoping that it would spur developers around the world to create wonderful and weird apps that would make use of their metadata and...
View ArticlePublic editing in and with the public
Mike Ananny has a post at Nieman Lab that I hope the NY Times editorial board reads. It argues that the next public editor (what we used to call an ombudsperson) is deeply versed in digital life, from...
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Life will, uh, find a way
Mike Ananny [twitter: ananny] had to guest-lecture a class about media, communications and news on Nov. 9. He recounts the session with an implicit sense of wonder that we can lift our head up from the...
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