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How to save local news…
Community is just another way of expressing shared interest. In the media those shared interests can cross political and state boundaries (for example business news, some sports and pornography). But where they can’t cross those boundaries is in politics itself. If you want to get people interested in politics you have to create a shared…
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The barriers to user-generated content
My colleague at City University, Neil Thurman, has published his latest study on user-generated content (UGC). You can read a pre-press version on his webpage. The headlines?UGC is being held back by: 1. Legal liabilities – publish and be damned. 2. Moderation costs – “80 per cent of the user generated content initiatives launched by…
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Defenestrating Denton
Like anyone in education, I never procrastinate today over what I can vacillate about tomorrow. And so it is with my estimation of Nick Denton, Gawker’s own Marquis de Sard. I admire Denton’s blog empire, and his hard-headed approach to posting ($7.50 per 1,000 views), and yet it’s obvious too that his own role in…
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Destruction. Creative, or just destructive?
Three things had me thinking, as I re-read Old Media Seek To Know Google Not Just Fear It: The genius of Google has been to couple search and advertising more effectively than anyone else. Its key word and contextual ad placements – mimicked by other Internet companies – have been nibbling away at the revenue…