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"Music, a mode of creative expression consisting of sound and silence expressed through time, was given a 6.8 out of 10 rating in an review published Monday on Pitchfork Media, a well-known music-criticism website."
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Fake Steve Jobs: "Now you've ruined the mystery of Fake Steve, robbing thousands of people around the world of their sense of childlike wonder. Hope you feel good about yourself, you mangina."
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'Fake Steve' Blogger Comes Clean
An editor at Forbes has been lampooning Steven P. Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, on a popular blog, “Fake Steve.�
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"True value creation happens when everyone who has an economic interest in media is made better off. Value is not created when when value is simply transferred from readers/consumers to shareholders - as has happened here."
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Mika Brzezinski of MNSBC rips Paris report
"MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski refuses to talk about Paris Hilton as a *Lead Story* on the Morning Joe show."
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The indie music site that everyone loves to hate.
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"If a critic can get people to realize that the everyday architectural world of garages and malls and bad haunted house novels is worthy of architectural analysis . . . then maybe the trade journals can get some of their subscribers back."
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A Newspaper Investigates Its Future
"The [Los Angeles] Times is dedicating three investigative reporters and half a dozen editors to find ideas, at home and abroad, for re-engaging the reader, both in print and online."
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Andrew Teman, who used to work at Intermix, calls foul on the new Myspace article published by Valleywag.
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A fundamental way newspaper sites need to change
"A lot of the information that newspaper organizations collect is relentlessly structured. It just takes somebody to realize the structure (the easy part), and it just takes somebody to start storing it in a structured format (the hard part)."
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The CIA-Contra-Crack Connection, 10 Years Later
"Reporter Gary Webb was the victim of his own hyperbole, but he never got credit for what he got right."
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"Blogs -- like all modes of contemporary media -- are not historically unique; they draw upon and resemble a number of past traditions and forms, depending on their focus."
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WE ARE ALL CNN (Or New Media That Matters)
Chartreuse is putting up $1,000 to send two people to New Orleans with a video camera to document what's going on.
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Get That Out of Your Mouth #27
"We have to strip away the geekery, the gadgetry, and the consumerism, and instead of explaining why this brave new freakshow interests us, we have to understand what it's doing to us."
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"We all have the regrettable responsibility to act like some weird hybrid of embedded reporter and reality TV star."
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On media elitism and the "derivative" myth
"Technorati currently shows more than 152,000,000 posts that use the word "I". So that's roughly 300 times more people talking about themselves (and the world around them) than talking about what the New York Times has written about."
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The People Formerly Known as the Audience
Jay Rosen's state of the media audience.
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The Sins of American Sportscasting
"All these strands together add up to the crisis in American sportscasting that is made evident at every World Cup, when English-speaking fans flee in enormous numbers to listen to commentary in a language they don’t even understand."
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Lawrence Lessig looks at An Inconvenient Truth, specifically at the way the media has handled global warming.
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"The time is long since past when morning newspapers can pretend they are breaking big national and international news stories. They have to remember that their readers know what has happened."
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"The plenitude of information, not its scarcity, defines the world we live in now. And journalism must change to accommodate that fact."
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The clickthrough's tyrannical efficiency
"Literally. The web unbundles the bundle - each story becomes a separate entity that lives or dies, economically, on its own."
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A Guest Blogger, and an Unwritten Law
George Clooney doesn't really write a blog post. Arienna Huffington refuses to apologize and says the medium is not the message. Everyone gets real mad. Huffington finally realizes she's wrong and apologizes. Times picks up story.
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Behind the Eavesdropping Story, a Loud Silence
New York Times public editor Byron Calame asks some tough questions about the delay of the eavesdropping article.
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Jeff Jarvis writes a newspaper state of the union.
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The Secret Life of a Restaurant Critic
"Sure, it's a fun job. But when an owner threatens to get a gun because of my review, that's not so fun."
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The "Americanisms" section of The Economist's style guide.
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When a Man Dies in a Sex Act with a Horse -- What's a Reporter to Do?
How a Seattle Times reporter handled a story about a man who died while having sex with a horse.
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Ten years later, the story of Suck.com, the first great website (A very very very long history of Suck.com)
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The journalist and the murderer
A disgraced New York Times reporter learns his identity has been stolen by an all-American hunk who killed his wife and three children. The result is the most unlikely "True Story" you'll ever read.
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"The goal here is to give you a basic roadmap to the legal issues you may confront as a blogger, to let you know you have rights, and to encourage you to blog freely with the knowledge that your legitimate speech is protected"
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Writing Tool #50: The Writing Process
"Sniff. Explore. Collect. Focus. Select. Order. Draft. Revise."
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Wired: "There will always be a market for young reporters who know how to gather facts and write them up in a clear, convincing manner."
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Is Rupert Murdoch right to predict the end of newspapers as we now know them?
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Paul Graham: "You can't see the fingerprints of PR firms all over the articles, as you can in so many print publications-- which is one of the reasons, though they may not consciously realize it, that readers trust bloggers more than Business Week."
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"The difference between blogging and journalism lies in how mistakes are dealt with."
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LATimes profile of Boing Boing/Wired's Xeni Jardin
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Apple bloggers get press support
Eight US newspapers and the Associated Press agency have thrown their support behind three bloggers sued by Apple.
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What should we make of blogging? Is it simply the latest internet fad, a truly democratic tool for change or, as some have suggested, a vehicle for mob rule? David Reid finds blogs are rocking the boat both East and West.
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MediaPost Communications is an integrated publishing and content company whose mission is to provide an array of resources to super-serve media planners and buyers.
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Slate: Will somebody please help the Los Angeles Times' David Shaw get a grip?
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It's the Content, Not the Source
Wired News: "But the way for EFF attorneys to win this case would be to attack Apple for its definition of a trade secret. What exactly does Apple lose by the publication of Asteroid's specs and a diagram?"
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What is it? And how has it affected he media?
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The global home for grassroots media
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Adventures in Opinion Writing: No Easy Answers
Why are there fewer female opinion writers? Another possible factor.
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A fantastic article from the Wall Street Journal that clearly describes the current state of blogging vs. mainstream media
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E-Media Tidbits reports on WestportNow
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The Media Company I Want to Work For-- Not Someday, But Now
"Time for someone to do it, to make the case for a new way of doing journalism, to stop talking about change in decades and start thinking about change in months and days. To stop complaining about the way things are, and the way things don't work, and to
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You Can Blog, but You Can't Hide
Should bloggers have the same rights as journalists?
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100 Photographs that Changed the World
by LIFE Magazine
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by Paul Graham
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Stephen King on writing successfully
Everything you need to know about writing successfully - in ten minutes
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OJR article: On the Wild, Woolly Internet,Old Ethics Rules Do Apply
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For Connoisseurs of High Church Condescension, Alex Jones on Bloggers at the Convention
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