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“Cloud Journalism” and Newspaper Panic
Apropos of the continuing thread here aka "Whither journalism" aka "Let's all run around in circles and scream" ... This week, there have been a number of really meaty, interesting articles & posts about the emerging model&shape of What Comes Next. It's...
US Consumers = Monkeys on Crack
It’s like operant conditioning. If you don’t give the monkey the shock, it won’t stop pushing the lever that used to deliver it hits of cocaine. Well, the government has been working overtime to try to stave off that shock. Which is all well & good – nobody likes getting high-voltage shocks – but my concern is that if we don’t in some way start changing our mindless consumerist behavior, the eventual shock is going to be much, much worse than what we’ve got coming in the next year or so, if we just stand & take our medicine.
Further Thoughts on Obama-Hating Scam
I have hopes (perhaps naive & unwarranted) that there will be a disaggregated Newsroom of the Future, where reporters and The People Formerly Known As The Audience all work together to separate truth from spin. The Look&Feel of this Newsroom of the Future is being chiseled out of the raw WebChaos on sites like TPM, Firedoglake, ProPublica, Publish2, RedState, and even on Michelle Malkin (hey – she called the “B on the face” girl out as a fraud).
Desperate Obama-Haters Give Money to Nigerian Scam
UPDATE: It has been 8 years since I wrote about the conspiracy theories about Obama being born in Kenya. At the time, it seemed like a momentary example of the gullibility that fervent, unreasoning hate causes. It has since morphed into the entire raison d'etre for...
Desperate Obama-Haters Give Money to Nigerian Scam
Nobody directly involved will admit it, but this is looking more and more like one of the more nasty, yet brilliant, scams of the last couple years. It may have been pulled off by the legendary Nigerian internet scammers, but it's beginning to look like it may...
Cat Riding a Roomba
I received the tweet earlier today, and it rocked my world like a bombshell. It was from Scott Beale, owner/operator/provocateur of the Laughing Squid collective of digital mischiefmakers. It read "what could you possibility be doing right now that is better...