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Category Archives: Mediapunk
The Four Types of Scoops
Jay Rosen recently presented his own theory of scoops: Type One: The enterprise scoop. “Where the news would not have come out without the enterprising work of the reporter who dug it out.” Type Two: The ego scoop. “This is … Continue reading
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Tagged jay rosen, journalism, Mediapunk, scoops, tech journalism
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Notes from a William Gibson Q&A Session (9/08/10)
These are my notes from William Gibson’s Q&A session after his Zero History reading at Powells Books in Portland, OR on 9/08/2010 (here are some photographs from the evening). I thought initially that most of this would come up in … Continue reading
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Tagged cyberpunk, fashion, literature, mediapunk, new media, punk, science fiction, style, tech, technology, twitter, William Gibson
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Good Interview with The Net Delusion Author Evgeny Morozov
Good interview with The Net Delusion author Evgeny Morozov: You once tweeted that ‘the term censorship has become meaningless’. Why? And what does it mean exactly? I have? Half of my tweets are not meant to be serious. But, sure, … Continue reading
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Tagged censorship, Civil Liberties, Evgeny Morozov, free speech, media democratization, mediapunk
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Getting Scoops Is Not (Necessarily) the Same as “Doing Journalism”
There’s been a bit of a shitstorm the past few days over TechCrunch blogger turned venture capitalist M.G Siegler’s defense of Path, a social networking company that the CrunchFund (a VC firm where Siegler is a partner) invested in. Dan … Continue reading
Has the Cost of Books Gone Up, Adjusted for Inflation?
The answer, apparently, is no. The Awl looked through the cost of different New York Times best sellers from the past seven decades and comparing the costs using a tool from Bureau of Labor Statistics to convert all the costs … Continue reading
Creators Are Caught in the Cross-Fire Between Publishers and Comic Shops
Brian Wood, of Channel Zero and DMZ fame: Everyone I know loves comic shops. Everyone I know who makes comics, especially creator-owned comics, is hurting, financially. EVERYONE is bleeding, its a bad time. So to what extent does digital as … Continue reading
Boing Boing’s David Pescovitz Interviewed on the Future of Attention
Media Magazine is running an interview with David “Pesco” Pescovitz on the subject of the future of attention: What do you think about the ability to process more concurrent streams? Do you think we’re adapting our brains to be able … Continue reading
China’s Freemium Self-Publishing System is Working
… at least for serialized genre fiction writers: These aren’t Authonomy-esque, publish-and-be-encouraged-by-fellow-writers sorts of sites, though, or even collections of self-published novels. The websites host what is being dubbed “freemium” publishing. Publishing Perspectives has more details: a growing number of … Continue reading
Transparency is No Substitute for Integrity
Summary: Disclosure of conflicts of interest isn’t enough, in fact in may make matter worse. But conflicts of interest may also be inevitable. Integrity is what matters, but that’s hard to measure. Disclosure: I work for SiliconAngle, a TechCrunch competitor. … Continue reading
DARPA Looks to “Counteract” Propaganda in Social Networks
The Pentagon is asking scientists to figure out how to detect and counter propaganda on social media networks in the aftermath of Arab uprisings driven by Twitter and Facebook. The US military’s high-tech research arm, the Defense Advanced Research Projects … Continue reading
