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The five immutable truths about the blogging vs. journalism debate, according to Kottke:
1. Mainstream, top-down, professional journalism will continue to play a vital role in covering news events, and in shaping our interpretation of those events, as it should.
2. Bloggers will grow increasingly adept at covering certain kinds of news events, but not all. They will play an increasingly important role in the interpretation of all kinds of news.
3. The majority of bloggers won’t be concerned with traditional news at all.
4. Professional, edited journalism will have a much higher signal-to-noise ratio than blogging; examples of sloppy, offensive, factually incorrect, or tedious writing will be abundant in the blogosphere. But diamonds in that rough will be abundant as well.
5. 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.
spotted on boing boing
originally published on dr.xnlb.com
I can get behind this:
“The old model of acting is that the rehearsal is great and then things change when you say ‘rolling’ –usually for the worse. Now there’s no film in the camera. You can shoot everything. So there’s no rehearsal. Or perhaps it’s all rehearsal. Either way, it’s far more natural.”
There is something powerful about this. I couldn’t quite put my finger on it when I was watching the War of the Worlds (Spielberg Version), but the above quote triggered it for me. It was his first forray into digital film making, and there was a certain authenticity in the faces of the actors.
And this seems to be the trend. As more and more directors adopt digital film making techniques, and become comfortable with these tools, the human condition will finally be reflected on the silver screen in a way that here-to-fore has rarely been seen.
That’s something I can really digg.
another long tail insight
originally published on dr.xnlb.com
Chris Anderson, one of the editors for Wired Magazine, and author of ‘The Long Tail‘ — an excellent book about the niche economy, recounts the story of how the multi-platnum band REM got it’s name, or should I say got to keep it’s name, on his blog.
The long and the short of it? Chris was in a synth-POP band back in the day, that was also called REM. Both bands were just starting out, and got booked at the same club on the same night (they staged it as a battle of the REM bands). The winner, chosen by audience applause, got to keep the name. The loser got renamed by the winner. You can already guess what happened, but you should read the anecdote for yourself.
And if you haven’t you should pick up ‘The Long Tail‘ for yourself, if you expect to survive and thrive in the “new” new economy of niche media.
originally published on dr.xnlb.com
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