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Quote of the day comes [via Jemima Kiss] from Chris Ahearn of Reuters Media: People who produce content should be paid, and it’s their choice whether they want that in financial capital, or in social capital through the reputation they build. Let me put that another way. Salary boost or title bump?
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At the NYT, David Carr thinks that because people comment on his blog he’s in touch with them. Wrong. Now you can hear what’s going on in the heads of a strange fraction of people who read you. That isn’t market research and it isn’t contact.
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Blogging and the future of journalism
Let’s be clear. The Zogby poll on bloggers is not good news for bloggers. The blogosphere has echoed to the sound of a press release being masticated by people who would like to swallow it without even chewing. People like us. Bloggers. Here’s what the PR said: Zogby Poll: Most Say Bloggers, Citizen Reporters to…
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Having a hard time posting to your blog?
Take comfort. It was ever thus. Here’s the editor of the British Spy or Derby Post-Man writing in the 1720s, when filling space was a little more challenging than it is today: When the Mails fail us and the people are inactive at home, when Great Folks are so ill-natur’d as neither to marry nor…