Mommy Bloggers (including my fav Finslippy) on Today
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links for 2009-07-18
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Judith Warner on what her family will do when journalism dies:
"We’d pretty much settled upon a future in which Max would teach “Candide” and I’d ghostwrite students’ college application essays. Then he came home with those perfectly shot paper bull’s-eyes.And whole new landscapes of opportunity opened before me.
Max was too old to go to work for the good guys: the armed forces, the police, the F.B.I. But on the dark side, the possibilities — and the cash potential — were endless. Freelance sniper. Sharpshooter. Professional assassin."
links for 2009-07-17
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"These kids are paying upwards of $70,000 (the cost of Columbia's J-School, including living expenses) for a ghost's chance of landing a job, at pitiful pay, in an industry that is rapidly collapsing. What's going to be the next hot field in graduate study? Blacksmithing? Bloodletting? Steamship design?"
links for 2009-07-16
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"journalism is about more than dissemination of news; it’s about the creation of shared awareness."
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I like what Brian has to say here about mixing personal (passions) and business in his Twitter stream. We are, after all, human beings, and we can relate to one another in more than one dimension. I respect Brian for his reporting/writing on media and advertising (full disclosure: we used to work together), but I'm also interested in his posts on running, because I'm a former (and hopefully future) runner myself.
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"In an internet-enabled world, a scoop lasts for only a very fleeting period of time. The real value is the insight about that scoop."
It’s also measurable now!
Pete Spande at Continuous Beta says:
Media hasn’t become social. It always was. I talked about the latest Dukes of Hazzard episode with anyone who would listen in 1980. My mother sent me newspaper clippings all the through my college career (for example – don’t use Bean0, it is made with penicillin! [I’m alergic.]) The difference now is that media is social with SCALE.
The other big difference, Pete, is that social media — word of mouth, to use the old term — is now measurable. I used to get a lot of gaff at ClickZ for writing about word-of-mouth marketing, because, uh… what’s digital or interactive about that?
My argument was always that the advent of digital media, and user-generated media, meant that you can now see and measure what people are saying about your brand. You can analyze positive versus negative; you can take that feedback and improve your products. And you can participate in the conversation and affect what people are saying about you. Pretty damned cool.