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 Thursday, August 11, 2005
started 8/11/2005; 4:09:20 PM - last post 8/15/2005; 7:28:50 AM
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Doc Searls - Thursday, August 11, 2005 
8/11/2005; 8:09:20 PM (reads: 6554, responses: 8)
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TV vs. WiFi 
Attention econonomics
| | Also just joined Attention Trust. (See the badge at the bottom of the margin to the right there.) |
Resetting the press button
| | Dave laments CNN's slide from a news to an entertainment network. To borrow Dave's own metaphor, they've zigged along with Fox and the rest of the crowd, when they should have zagged — and become more of a hard-news source, rather than less of one. |
| | I believe the cause is one I've been harping on for many years: a fatal split between commercial broadcasting's customers and consumers. If Dave and I (and millions of others) actually paid CNN directly for their goods, they'd feel more accountable. They'd have a real market relationship with real people, and not with numbers from a ratings book. |
| | But they don't have that. So they follow a growing assortment of networks that look as similar as pea cans on a store shelf. |
| | News-as-entertainment is a fad. But it's hard to see its evanescence today, when even the Eleven O'Crock news is down to 3 minutes of actual reporting fronting 27 minutes of network promos, car ads and pro forma sports and weather segments. |
| | But, as Scoop Nisker puts it, If you don't like the news, go out and make some of your own. |
| | Blogging's partners for that are news organizations that do have real market relationships with their readers. We've heard and seen way too many ORs stuck between blogging and journalism. AND is still the only way forward. |
| | When telepodding gets huge (and it will), watch TV news get real again. |
| | By the way, I though I was making up that linked word in the last paragraph, only to find Jim Thompso's post here #1 out of just 12. Watch that number. |
| | [Later...] This paragraph formerly pointed to what Jim posted here, and what that post pointed to as well. Heather Green objected — legitimately, I believe. |
Try impossible
| | Blogs require caution, but are much more predictable than chat rooms. "The blogs we would encourage people to advertise on have a small number of authors, one, two or three tops. In chat rooms, anyone can post," said Scott Rafer, CEO of Feedster, a blog and RSS search engine and ad network, who is building technology to monitor and filter blogs. The other major difference is that because the postings are predictable, the content can be monitored and controlled by automation or by human beings. If something objectionable is posted, an ad can be pulled within minutes, he added. |
| | I added the links. AdAge still doesn't grok links to anything other than its own "content". |
Improved surf conditions
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Josh Hallett - Re: Thursday, August 11, 2005 - TV vs. Wifi
8/12/2005; 6:21:46 PM (reads: 688, responses: 0)
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Doc I am expecting to hear this....
"Special Action News 9 Report....... Wifi: more and more homes are installing these wireless computer networks. They promise the ability to use your laptop anywhere in the house, but are these hidden radio waves causing severe health problems or possibly cancer? Tune in at 11 and our Special Action News 9 Team will tell you how your family might be at risk."
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Scott Rafer - Impossible?
8/12/2005; 6:54:32 PM (reads: 1161, responses: 1)
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Hi Doc,
Are you disagreeing with my point or poking at Ad Age on their link rules?
If the former, the reporter asked me about what could be done for policing (which I made it clear we weren't doing at this time), and pulling an ad when a blogger has inappropriate content isn't that tough.
Scott
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Heather Green - Re: Thursday, August 11, 2005
8/12/2005; 8:27:27 PM (reads: 1151, responses: 4)
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I am pretty disappointed. First, you talk about the problem of news as entertainment, which truly is a problem. But then you point to a dildo?? Point to a dildo anywhere but in this post, because otherwise, you come off as doing the same thing you right criticize the press for.
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Doc Searls - Re: Impossible?
8/12/2005; 10:34:09 PM (reads: 871, responses: 0)
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Sorry about that.
I wasn't disagreeing with you at all, though I was making up for the absence of linking in the Ad Age post. I explain more here.
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Doc Searls - Re: Thursday, August 11, 2005
8/12/2005; 10:37:27 PM (reads: 836, responses: 2)
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Arg! You're right. That was bad.
When I posted the pointer, the dildo page hadn't loaded its graphics. This mornin I just saw the whole page and... yikes. What a difference a picture makes.
Anyway, the pointer has been removed from the post, and a longer explanation has been posted here.
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Dave Winer - Re: Thursday, August 11, 2005
8/13/2005; 3:52:50 PM (reads: 926, responses: 1)
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I don't get it -- what's wrong with pointing to a page with a picture of a dildo? Even if it weren't somehow relevant to your beat, which it is (it's Linux powered, what does that mean, btw).
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Doc Searls - Re: Thursday, August 11, 2005
8/15/2005; 11:28:50 AM (reads: 1077, responses: 0)
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It's a matter of context.
As Heather pointed out, it made sense just about anywhere but in that post, which seemed to be making a point that had nothing to do with a dildo, Linux-powered or otherwise. (And the Linux thing was a stretch.)
And, as I pointed out in the follow-up, I posted in haste, without seeing the graphic. It was interesting to me that the page with the picture looked substantially different to me than the page without the picture.
I don't mind pictures of dildos, but Jeebus, that one was scary. Looked like a torture device (though it's quite the opposite, I'm sure... even though, as a man, I'll never really know).
So I wanted to say something about impulsivity and shit. Not sure I did that very well, either. In retrospect, I probabl[y shouldn't have taken the piontage out, but... whatever.
Chalk it all up to blogging out loud.
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