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Old Media still has its mojo working
On Sunday, Martin Varsavsky, an Argentine/Spanish entrepreneur, and his global wireless network,FON, were featured in the business section of the New York Times. That got him musing about the differences between old media and new media: Even though the Sunday New York Times has a circulation of 2.3 million papers and is arguably the best…
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The great tag cloud in the sky
xkcd.com and its creator 23-year-old creator Randall Munroe are featured in a New York Times article today. (via popurls)
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The Parris Island days for newsrooms
Ryan Sholin, our host for this month’s Carnival of Journalism, asked an intriguing question on Friday: “What should news organizations stop doing, today, immediately, to make more time for innovation?” Newsrooms intrinsically abhor dropping things partly because of the “one reader rule.” The one reader rule states that if you take even the smallest thing…