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"Q: What’s the most under-covered story right now? David Carr: Who is fighting distant wars. It’s..."

Sat, 26 May 2012 09:27:47 -0400

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Q: What’s the most under-covered story right now?

David Carr: Who is fighting distant wars. It’s being fought by the same people over and over. As war becomes increasingly remote and mechanized, the accountability that goes with that sort of goes away. The changing nature of warfare and what it does

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- TPM Interview: New York Times Media Columnist David Carr

"The trouble with hyperspecialization is that the automobile never gets assembled. Experts remain..."

Sat, 26 May 2012 07:00:26 -0400

“The trouble with hyperspecialization is that the automobile never gets assembled. Experts remain siloed off in their disciplines, speaking in code with their peers, engaging in talmudic debates on the finer points of footnotes to footnotes. Universities have tried to address this problem in recent years with interdisciplinary specializations, but their underlying architecture often inhibits free and open collaboration.”

- What the World Needs is More Curious Amateurs | Think Tank | Big Think (via infoneer-pulse)

onaissues: Looking at a new degree system for journalism...

Sat, 26 May 2012 04:37:20 -0400

onaissues:

Looking at a new degree system for journalism education - Knight Foundation

Eric Newton’s proposed new degree structure for journalism and communications in handy infographic form.

"…virtually every week now we see stories like this that hint at a kind of two-tiered market system –..."

Sat, 26 May 2012 02:21:14 -0400

“…virtually every week now we see stories like this that hint at a kind of two-tiered market system – in which most of the real action takes place inside an unregulated black-box network of connected insiders who don’t disclose their relationships or their interests, while everyone else, i.e. the regular suckers, live in the more tightly-policed world of prospectuses and quarterly reporting and so on. All of these stories suggest that Wall Street is increasingly turning into a giant favor-and-front-running factory, where the big banks and broker-dealers that channel vast streams of crucial non-public information (about the markets generally and their clients specifically) are also trading for their own accounts, and sharing information with a select group of “preferred investors,” who in turn help the TBTF banks move markets in this or that desired direction by jumping on or off various pigpiles at the right times.”

- The Facebook IPO: Shareholders Weren’t Invited to the Real Party (via azspot)

Is Innovation Dead — Or Doing Just Fine, Thank You?

Fri, 25 May 2012 21:31:36 -0400

Is Innovation Dead — Or Doing Just Fine, Thank You?:

Pundits are arguing that trendy social media companies are diverting capital from more serious, productive ventures.

explore-blog: The number of languages spoken worldwide vs. the...

Fri, 25 May 2012 19:05:02 -0400

explore-blog:

The number of languages spoken worldwide vs. the languages of the internet.

8 Rules For Creating A Passionate Work Culture - Fast Company 2.0

Fri, 25 May 2012 16:49:26 -0400

8 Rules For Creating A Passionate Work Culture - Fast Company 2.0

"I believe that the civilian-military gap isn’t always born of indifference, but rather, at times, a..."

Fri, 25 May 2012 15:32:20 -0400

“I believe that the civilian-military gap isn’t always born of indifference, but rather, at times, a sense of helplessness on the civilian side. What can I do? If you do nothing else, you can remember those who have given their lives for their country. Our country. Remembrance, which may seem a modest contribution in the moment, is a sacred act with long-term payoff — a singularly human gift that keeps on giving, year after, year after, war-fatigued year. I don’t need to remind you that America’s sons and daughters are still dying in combat. I don’t want to browbeat you into feeling guilty for not doing more. Instead, I want to tell you that as the wife of a veteran, it is tremendously meaningful to know that on this Memorial Day, civilians will be bearing witness and remembering in their own way — that those who are gone are not forgotten. I also want to say that as you remember them, we remember you. - As Memorial Day Nears, a Single Image That Continues to Haunt http://nyti.ms/Lo6f6s”

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The 'ME'dia Generation: If you want people to talk about you, give them something compelling to talk about

Fri, 25 May 2012 14:42:00 -0400

The 'ME'dia Generation: If you want people to talk about you, give them something compelling to talk about:

briansolis:

I recently participated in a study published by Smart Service in Germany that focused the state and future of Social Commerce and Social CRM (sCRM). The team recently released a series of snippets from our interviews that I wanted to share with you here.

Question 1: Customer behavior…

Letters of Note: Airman Thompson

Fri, 25 May 2012 14:13:33 -0400

Letters of Note: Airman Thompson :

Friday fun for all my Air Force friends and devotees of great writing everywhere…

poynterinstitute: If anything is front-page news, it’s that...

Fri, 25 May 2012 11:55:21 -0400

poynterinstitute:

If anything is front-page news, it’s that your newspaper is going to stop printing every day. Here’s how The Times-Picayune and three other Advance Publications (and one outsider) told their readers Friday morning about the changes.

"It is that which we do know which is the great hindrance to our learning, not that which we do not..."

Fri, 25 May 2012 10:35:35 -0400

“It is that which we do know which is the great hindrance to our learning, not that which we do not know.”

- Claude Bernard

The idiot theory of news - Scott Berkun

Fri, 25 May 2012 10:23:38 -0400

The idiot theory of news - Scott Berkun:

No matter how awesome any group of people is, you can always find someone doing something idiotic. No matter how awesome a government is, you can always find an idiot in it doing something stupid. No matter how peaceful a tribe or a nation is, you can always find an idiot in it committing acts of violence. A singular horrible or wonderful example does nothing to inform us unless the reporter does the work to put that event in context.

New Google Plus Data Shows Weak User Engagement - RJ Metrics

Fri, 25 May 2012 09:31:09 -0400

New Google Plus Data Shows Weak User Engagement - RJ Metrics:

The average post has less than one +1, less than one reply, and less than one re-share.

30% of users who make a public post never make a second one. Even after making five public posts, there is a 15% chance that a user will not post publicly again.

Among users who make publicly-viewable posts, there is an average of 12 days between each post

A cohort analysis reveals that, after a member makes a public post, the average number of public posts they make in each subsequent month declines steadily. This trend is not improving in newer cohorts.

Future Work Skills 2020 - Institute for the Future

Fri, 25 May 2012 08:24:59 -0400

futurist-foresight:

The Institute for the Future released a report on future work skills that will be needed by 2020. They are:

Sense-making.

Social intelligence.

Novel and adaptive thinking.

Cross-cultural competency.

Computational thinking.

New-media literacy.

Transdisciplinarity.

Design mind-set.

Cognitive load management.

Virtual collaboration.

(Gigaom gives a quick breakdown)

The graphic below from that report highlights areas of focus:

"- Google Plus is an abandoned city in the desert. - I.e. “Google’s social tool (G+) has..."

Fri, 25 May 2012 08:14:43 -0400

“- Google Plus is an abandoned city in the desert.
- I.e. “Google’s social tool (G+) has no community and its communities (Books, Scholar) lack social tools.”
- Google can still win the social war.
- But only if it A) abandons the operational idea of Google Plus and B) empowers the users of its existing products.”

- How Google Can Win the Social Media War

Here's a question: what's bigger and far more important than Facebook? Hint: it's very low-tech and doesn't need a smartphone or even an internet connection. And this year marks its 20th birthday, which means that in internet time it's 140 years old. Oh, and it doesn't involve LOLcats either.

Thu, 24 May 2012 16:49:13 -0400

Here's a question: what's bigger and far more important than Facebook? Hint: it's very low-tech and doesn't need a smartphone or even an internet connection. And this year marks its 20th birthday, which means that in internet time it's 140 years old. Oh, and it doesn't involve LOLcats either.:

poptech:

team-bridge:

poptech:

Got it yet? It’s SMS – text messaging to you and me.

Why do I keep seeing things about what a hero SMS is?

Good question! Here are a few examples of the power of SMS:

SMS aids humanitarian response like Patrick Meier and Josh Nesbit describe in the Haiti 4636 story.

SMS can improve child and maternal health with platforms like ChildCount+, a mobile-phone-based health platform that empowers communities in Africa.

Lastly, in collaboration with a handful of other organizations, we’re piloting PeaceTXT, a multidisciplinary project to explore the potential of mobile technology to amplify a proven approach to reducing violence.

To discover more ways mobile technology is making an impact, explore the mobile tag on poptech.org.

thenextweb: Here is your chance to win a copy of Snapheal for...

Thu, 24 May 2012 14:50:44 -0400

thenextweb:

Here is your chance to win a copy of Snapheal for Mac and fix bad photos in a matter of clicks and seconds: Facebook promotion

FB Launches Facebook Camera – An Instagram-Style Photo Filtering, Sharing, Viewing iOS App

Thu, 24 May 2012 14:49:03 -0400

FB Launches Facebook Camera – An Instagram-Style Photo Filtering, Sharing, Viewing iOS App:

Today Facebook begins rolling out Facebook Camera for iOS to English-speaking countries, a standalone photos app where you can shoot, filter, and share single or sets of photos and scroll through a feed of photos uploaded to Facebook by your friends. Developed by Facebook’s photos team without the help of Instagram because the acquisition deal hasn’t closed yet, Facebook Camera looks a lot like the app TechCrunch leaked images of a year ago, and is designed for quicker publishing than Facebook’s multi-featured primary mobile app.

The Measure of Performance: What Does Social Media Success Mean to Your Business?

Thu, 24 May 2012 14:14:51 -0400

The Measure of Performance: What Does Social Media Success Mean to Your Business?:

visualoop:

Via