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2009: More action, less conversation

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Pilote de Guerre by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryDave Cohn, the force of energy behind Spot.us is host­ing this month’s Car­ni­val of Journ­al­ism. He’s after pre­dic­tions for 2009.

Well, I don’t really have a pre­dic­tion of the “Someone will dis­cover a busi­ness model for Twit­ter” vari­ety. It being the sea­son of reflec­tion and all, it’s more an observation.

It seems to me that we have talked for years now of tech­no­logy and com­munit­ies without ever stop­ping to ask what — if any­thing — might bind them together. The assump­tion is that it is con­ver­sa­tion, that the con­nec­tion simply enables and — lo and behold! — the com­munity pops into exist­ence. Well, con­ver­sa­tion is not enough. You have to do something.

If you don’t believe me, ask Ant­oine de Saint-Exupéry. Con­tinue read­ing →

Carnival of Journalism

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This being part of the Car­ni­val of Journ­al­ism (and late), ring­mas­ter Doug Fisher asks: what changes will need to be made in national and inter­na­tional legal sys­tems to help the digital age, and espe­cially journ­al­ism in the digital age, flourish?

At the risk of mak­ing myself unpop­u­lar, in our own digital realm — journ­al­ism — many of the oppor­tun­it­ies offered by digital con­tent have been held back by cross media own­er­ship restric­tions. When it comes to the media even a mogul like Rupert Mur­doch had to switch nation­al­ity to own TV sta­tions in the US. Con­tinue read­ing →