An article published today by Michael Masnick on his Techdirt blog takes on a Forbe’s opinion piece that tries to debunk the “myth” of crowdsourcing. The Forbes contributor, Dan Woods, claims that the commonly cited triumphs of crowdsourcing like Wikipedia (the supplier of this definition of crowdsourcing) are in fact the products largely of individuals, [...]
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Editors are rarely comfortable using the word content to describe their line of business, given that it suggests a kind of “undifferentiated slurry,” to borrow a phrase to be discussed below. They might prefer instead to substitute the word information, but they would be well advised to resist the temptation. There is a not-so-obvious but [...] Lessons from David Pogue, Steve Jobs, and Leo Laporte Was David Pogue too easy on Steve Jobs? A recent kerfuffle in the blogosphere/podosphere involving New York Times tech columnist David Pogue offers B2B journalists and editors some interesting ethical issues to mull over. Pogue has been under attack for supposed conflicts of interest, first in an [...] Turning Cash Cows into Mini-Moos What Would Google Do? By Jeff Jarvis. HarperBusiness, 2009. In the previous three parts of this review of What Would Google Do?, I’ve looked at how Jarvis’s ideas apply to B2B in terms of its relation to readers, the impact of hyperlinks, and the shift from product journalism to process journalism. [...] How the Shift to Process Journalism Affects Ethics What Would Google Do? By Jeff Jarvis. HarperBusiness, 2009. Scenes from an editor’s desk, circa 1989: Copy arrives in the mail. You do a first read-through, do some fact checking, call the writer for clarifications, edit, and send it off to the type setter. Galleys come back from type. You read [...] The Transformative Power of Links What Would Google Do? By Jeff Jarvis. HarperBusiness, 2009. When Jarvis writes in an early chapter of WWGD, “the link changes every business and institution,” it may sound a bit portentous. But he has it exactly right. The first time I encountered a hyperlinked Web page, back in the early 1990’s, I thought [...] A Review of What Would Google Do? What Would Google Do? By Jeff Jarvis. HarperBusiness, 2009. The world of business-to-business publishing is falling to pieces. Ad pages and revenue are plummeting, staffs are being decimated, and magazines are being shut down or cut back at a dramatic pace. And no, it’s not just the recession, which has [...] |
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