How free are we – really?
Friday, July 17th, 2009Leo Plaw, who works on the SMLXL web presence, is also a bit of a thinker and an Aussie. He's all good things and raises in this post some very interesting points about how free are we really?He writesThese same ... Ratings:
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The land that broadband forgot
Saturday, May 9th, 2009Digital Britain? Digital SchmigitalLyddington in Rutland is part of the land that Digital Britain forgot: big telecoms firms have refused to lay fibre optic cable to it that would give it high-speed broadband. So its 400 residents have clubbed together, ... Ratings: (No Ratings Yet)
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Bottoms up for democracy
Friday, May 1st, 2009In the past decade the ability of governments to cooperate has radically declined. Unfortunately, this decline has collided with the recognition that there are major problems that can only be addressed effectively by common international responses. This disturbing divergence of ... Ratings:
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Do not mourn the death of local newspapers
Monday, April 27th, 2009The crisis in local news is not just about "the business model", a phrase I am coming to loathe. It is about the fabric of a society and the careers that grew out of local journalism and have made so ... Ratings: (2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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The rise of the conversation society
Friday, March 27th, 2009You might say we have always been a conversation society, and with that comes in English anyway, the term 'polite society' or indeed the 'chattering classes.' However there is something more supercharged about the conversation society today.We have become; connected, ... Ratings: (2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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Good journalism is not only supported by advertising
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009BBC Radio 4's Media show covers the issues facing how one finances journalism, that I discussed earlier today.John Naughton makes the point that however, that newspapers cannot be simply equated with good quality journalism. And Polly Toynbee supported this point ... Ratings: (No Ratings Yet)
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citizen journalism: truth, trust and power
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009Jeff Bercovici writes, Hearst Newspapers, The New York Times Co. and the Washington Times have all announced plans to harvest the reporting of non-professional volunteers.But why uncomfortable bedfellows? BecauseThere's a healthy dose of irony here, especially when it comes to ... Ratings: (No Ratings Yet)
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The fall of Tom Daschle and the rise of public man
Saturday, February 7th, 2009I picked up Jay Rosen's link to a TV interview with BIll Moyers, which focused on the recent mini-crisis of Tom Daschle's nomination to be head of Health and Human services.And I picked up the FT this morning to find ... Ratings: (No Ratings Yet)
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The Johnston Press – it did not have to be this way
Monday, December 15th, 2008The lack of an effective digital strategy, few apparent plans aside from further cost cuts, and concerns over refinancing debt are the main reasons cited for the share price collapse.Writes the Sunday HeraldAnd of course the banking collapse and its ... Ratings: (No Ratings Yet)
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The craftsman as citizen journalist
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008In the Craftsman by Richard Sennett, he points us to the philosopher Pico della Mirandola, who envisaged Homo Faber to mean "man as his own maker." Richard Lester and Michael Piore describe the process of (meaningful) as communication asFluid, context-dependent, ... Ratings: (No Ratings Yet)
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