Category: Future of News

• Copyleft crusader and Harvard professor Larry Lessig gave a new talk at CERN last week about copyright and how it has affected open access to academic or scientific information, with a bit of commentary about YouTube Copyright School. As usual, it’s blistering commentary. “It’s time to recognize that free access – as in ‘free’ as in speech access – is no fad, and it’s time to push this non-fad war broadly in the context of science,” says Lessig.

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• The growing, alternative news media source being delivered from free-market think tanks is becoming more frequent with encouragement from the think tank leadership and the networking opportunities and editorial support of the Franklin Center. But that wasn’t always the case. It was only two years ago that there were fewer than 10 reporters housed at state think tanks. That was before the Franklin Center, working closely with SPN, began networking these reporters together and providing training and services to help them be more effective.

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• My student and mentee, Blair Mishleau is just back from London, and getting ready for a summer inter

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• From Storify, to Storyful, Tumblr and iPhone only, Color, tools that let a clever or opinionated, or journalistically inclined individual “curate” the firehose of news we all get from the Web are coming online. Use a blog, first, to get smart about a subject and to make yourself an expert in an area. This is the sedentary version of building a beat. You don’t hit the pavement and coffee shops, you virtually explore. So, you know who to follow on Twitter, and you’ve set up a couple of “lists” and perhaps you use FriendFeed, and Facebook. What is the next step? Try out a curating agent that let’s you easily pull the little tidbits, tweets, and strands of information together into a news feed. Now you can build an audience, and maybe even charge for your insights.

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• http://s.wsj.net/media/swf/VideoPlayerMain.swf (via Summify – The Really Smart Phone – WSJ.com) MIT

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• Broadcasters are caught in a cost/price squeeze. TV’s declining economy is now reflected by a buyers’ market in the medium. TV can grow no more because its audience is near the saturation point. The rate structure is threatened because the audience is getting choosier. A growing number of sponsors question the value of TV advertising. If that all sounds familiar, well, no wonder. These are articles of faith among those who conquered their fear, denial, blind faith and desperate attachments to the status quo at last to face the reality of the gathering Chaos Scenario.

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• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtEvcXkxio0 The news the way we *should* hear it — as a set of

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• NewspaperTurnaround.Com | Saving journalism as a business model

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• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2QSrCoho2E SugarGamers (FULL) PEK PONGPAET INTERVIEW (by Sugargamers

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• Active Twitter Users Have Shorter Relationships [STATS]

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