New York Times söndagsbilaga skriver här om vad som händer med en storstads identitet när dagstidningen dör.  Långt och läsvärt. Jag citerar:

This drumbeat, a relentless declaration that print is doomed, may be a problem in and of itself, making it easy to cast anyone who wants to save print as a Luddite. In a widely read essay earlier this year, Clay Shirky, a professor at N.Y.U. and an Internet consultant, suggested embracing the current moment of flux. “That is what real revolutions are like,” he wrote. “The old stuff gets broken faster than the new stuff is put in its place. . . . When someone demands to know how we are going to replace newspapers, they are really demanding to be told that we are not living through a revolution. They are demanding to be told that old systems … Read More »

“An awful lot of people are finding our work not by coming to our homepage or looking at our newspaper but through alerts and recommendations from their friends and colleagues. So we ought to learn how to reach those people effectively and serve them well. Jennifer will work closely with editors, reporters, bloggers and others to use social tools to find sources, track trends, and break news as well as to gather it,” it said. ”She will help us get comfortable with the techniques, share best practices and guide us on how to more effectively engage a larger share of the audience on sites like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, Digg, and beyond.” – New York Times (upphittat på Social Media Optimization)

Stoppa servrarna! Briljant initiativ enligt min mening. New York Times är inte ensamma om att satsa på webben bland dagspressen, många av … Read More »

“I still think they (readers) know the difference between real news and bullshit,” he says. “And they’re glad that someone cares enough to get things on the record and print the truth.”-Russel Crowe från filmen State of play

På sociala media today skriver man om hur web 2.0 och den sociala evolutionen på nätet med sina bloggar och sociala nätverksfunktioner har förstört och misskrediterat seriös journalistik. The Internet is Killing Americas Free Press and why it Matters heter artiklen.

Låt oss begrunda begreppet “Free press” en stund. Den “fria” pressen involverar alltså enligt Social Media Today:

- att ordet tillhör en professionell elit.

- nyheter baserade på en mans/kvinnas världsåskådning, uppfattningar och föreställningsramar.

- subjektivitet när det kommer till tolkandet av händelser och nyheter

- ett visst mått av nyhetsvärde som finns där för att tillgodose annonsörer.

- ett presskort.

Ska jag tolka SMT rätt så finns det … Read More »