MUITO BOM! A ler, todo.
Is Media Performance Democracy?s Critical Issue? Now just because I have a white beard and a long resume doesn?t mean that I?m going to stand up here and regale you with stories about the good old days of newspapers. The most fundamental reason for this is that except for a few places ? newspapers owned by civic-minded families in St. Louis, Louisville, Des Moines, Nashville, and Hartford come to mind ? the good old days weren?t so good. [...]
I care about journalism down to the marrow of my bones ? it?s in my DNA ? but without democracy meaningful journalism is impossible. And vice versa. That?s why I?m here today, answering the call to address the question, ?Is media performance democracy?s critical issue??
Well, my answer is yes. [...]
Citizens who have no access to serious journalism about the issues that are relevant to their lives end up awash in the propagandistic opinion media and in the sound bite vapidity of standard broadcast news. Without serious journalism that they can read to equip them with facts and engage their reason, some respond to this sorry state by disenfranchising themselves in hopelessness; others vote the opinions drilled into them by the manipulative cable news diatribes. [...]
Many of us think about citizen journalism and blogs as the saviors of democracy, and while they certainly have impact and show lots of promise, so far they reach a much smaller and much more rarefied audience than daily newspapers. We talk of readers as the audience, as the users, and as the people formerly known as the audience, believing that they are participants in the news process now. It?s much more accurate to say that some are participants now, and to acknowledge that the majority do not participate, and that no small number never will. Many of us are committing the marketing sin of thinking the customers are like us. Some are like us, but most citizens are less educated than us, and make less money than us, and have far more uncertainty in their lives.[...]
Media performance really is democracy?s critical issue. Much responsibility rests on us. If we can?t do better ? lots better ? I fear for our nation?s future.
04 julho 2006
VITAMEDIAS
A Blog Mogul Turns Bearish on Blogs: So it comes as a bit of a surprise that [Nick Denton, the founder of Gawker Media] celebrated a very upbeat stretch in the blogging industry by putting two of his sites on the block, reorganizing others and laying off several people.
Laying off journalists? How very old media.
"Better to sober up now, before the end of the party," he said in announcing the realignment. [...]
"We are becoming a lot more like a traditional media company," Mr. Denton said last week. "You launch a site, you have great hopes for it and it does not grow as much as you wanted. You have to have the discipline to recognize what isn't working and put your money and efforts into those sites that are." [...]
"The barrier to entry in Internet media is low," he said. "The barrier to success is high."
Blog mogul? If one is trying to use a blog format to create a network of websites covering an array of topics, then, there will be hits and there will be flops. No surprise. No bust. No boom. Nick is simply running a business -- and it appears he's running it wisely.
How to spot a true blog mogul: True blog moguls don't explain their business model in newspaper interviews or via TechCrunch or even on their own blogs. They do it on their Flickr account.
Laying off journalists? How very old media.
"Better to sober up now, before the end of the party," he said in announcing the realignment. [...]
"We are becoming a lot more like a traditional media company," Mr. Denton said last week. "You launch a site, you have great hopes for it and it does not grow as much as you wanted. You have to have the discipline to recognize what isn't working and put your money and efforts into those sites that are." [...]
"The barrier to entry in Internet media is low," he said. "The barrier to success is high."
Blog mogul? If one is trying to use a blog format to create a network of websites covering an array of topics, then, there will be hits and there will be flops. No surprise. No bust. No boom. Nick is simply running a business -- and it appears he's running it wisely.
How to spot a true blog mogul: True blog moguls don't explain their business model in newspaper interviews or via TechCrunch or even on their own blogs. They do it on their Flickr account.
ECOPOL
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Science Confirms: You Really Can't Buy Happiness: A wealth of data in recent decades has shown that once personal wealth exceeds about $12,000 a year, more money produces virtually no increase in life satisfaction. [...]
he problem is that once people get past the level of poverty, money does not play a significant role in day-to-day happiness
Science Confirms: You Really Can't Buy Happiness: A wealth of data in recent decades has shown that once personal wealth exceeds about $12,000 a year, more money produces virtually no increase in life satisfaction. [...]
he problem is that once people get past the level of poverty, money does not play a significant role in day-to-day happiness
CULTURAS IN VITRO
Da terra do futebol: History has the edge over football, poll reveals: The Mori poll showed that 73% were interested in history, compared with 59% in sport in general and 48% in football.
TECNOSFERA
The Million Dollar Homepage goes Offline: Now the concept has been applied to a building developed by the Sandberg Institute (Netherlands). With big sponsors [...]
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