I Have a New Niece!
Posted: September 25, 2009 Filed under: News Leave a comment »Adelheyd and her Brother Odin
Adelheyd “Dell” Vee Brown
Congrats little Sister!
Save Journalism, Not Media
Posted: September 18, 2009 Filed under: News, Random Thoughts, The Business of News Leave a comment »
I’ve been reading quite a bit about new media vs. old media over the past few months and I am starting to think that this “us vs. them” positioning is somewhat of a fallacy. New Media does not need to overthrow Old Media or vice versa. In fact, New Media needs to save Old Media.
News audiences are migrating online at a rapid rate. Publishers have traded their print dollars for digital pennies and those pennies can no longer pay for real investigative journalism.
Many New Media advocates suggest the the new age of free information will kill Old Media. Yes – you will probably hear about big public events like voter riots in Iran on twitter before you will read about them in the Wall Street Journal.
Blogs, the most common New Media platform, are great. They are lively, opinionated, and a lot of very smart people use them as a convenient communications platform. But, will an unpaid blogger interview five sources and corroborate facts before clicking the “PUBLISH” button.
The Democratization of Media
Posted: September 2, 2009 Filed under: News, The Business of News | Tags: new media, News Media Business, traditional media, web 2.0 1 Comment »Here’s a great video lecture by Andrew Keen on the democratization of media that has been touted by web2.0 advocates for years now. It points out some of the inherent pitfalls of pulling “the middle man” out of media.
Keen’s argument is pretty simple. By removing the middle men from media, web2.0 is remove the experts in recognizing talent, the experts in tracking down and investigating a story, the experts in marketing talent or content… We need those experts. He also points out that web2.0 inherently lends itself to liars, cheats, con-men, and corporations while traditional media filters all of that out.
