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| Monday, February 28, 2005 |
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Podconomics .001 
| | Podcast economy modeling asks, what would happen if your iPodder subscriptions routed out through your i-broker, and informed — at your direction — each 'caster that you are willing to pay $N (a sum you set) per podcast? |
Yes
Never (re)mind
| | At issue, sort of, is the history of podcasting, I think. Glad those guys are straightening it all out. |
| | A year from now there will be seven million podcasters. Give or take. Gonna be fun. |
| | I am not going to name names, but lets just say that starting March 5th I will be on all THREE coasts. And one more hint: this station is the best of the big stations in the network, its innovative, visionary and wholly dedicated to airing great radio (I am sure this partnership will last at best 3 weeks). |
I was overheard to have said...
| | The Digital Tipping Point is an open source documentary film project, begins The Digital Tipping Point's welcome page. The next paragraph discloses that their first snippet of audio is an interview with yours truly. It was recorded a year ago, and I don't remember what I said. You may hear it before I do. I'm writing this at 1am and won't listen to it, probably, until I'm in the car driving up to the Bay Area this afternoon. I have something like 40 hours of podcasts on two CDs — a huge backlog of podcasts I'll mostly miss. Surfeit is its own punishment, it seems. |
Here we go again
| | Sure, they scurry around the outskirts of journalism like lab mice and can make more noise than a garbage truck at 6 a.m. Still, the question persists: Are they truly journalists -- or just amateur commentators? |
| | Okay. Here's a question I'd like to ask the mainstreamers who keep writing "journalism" like this... |
| | Now that the number of blogs has grown north of seven million, isn't it time to drop the generalizations? |
| | To be fair, on Page 2 of his essay, Friedman says, |
| | Ultimately, the best of the bloggers are as legitimate as their print counterparts at newspapers and magazines - and they're performing a public service by beating their peers to big stories. They can offer just about as much immediacy as radio and television news outlets, and that keeps traditional media on their toes. |
| | At their worst, the bloggers remind me of people who call into an all-sports talk-radio station and yell out their opinions. They have no new information to present. They aren't witty or clever. They're simply shrill. And that's no longer good enough. |
| | Look. Blogs are personal journals, written by millions of people, on zillions of topics. Whether or not those journals practice "journalism" is a useless question at this point. Besides, it's been done to death. |
| | Generalizing about bloggers is about the same as generalizing about telephone callers or photographers or baseball players. You don't say all phone callers are rude, all photographers take nasty pictures or all baseball players spit. So stop saying all bloggers (that third person plural "They") are ... anything. Because it just ain't true. There's too damn many of them. All individuals. With nobody in charge. |
| | The real challenge isn't for bloggers to bootstrap themselves into Serious Journalism, but for Serious Journals to take advantage of a growing population of self-starting stringers. Who happen to already have their own journals. |
Hump years? Sit years?
| | It's the last day of the shortest month. Somehow this makes me think... |
| | If this isn't a leap year, what kind of year is it? Is there a name for leapless years? |
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