Comments on: Save journalism?

By: Going Back | brianfrank.ca

Going Back | brianfrank.ca — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:42:47 +0000

[...] Press study on young adults and intended to discuss citizen journalism, mobile journalism, Scoble, O’Reilly on Stewart, as well as this, but I veered in a new direction as I wrote, learning a [...]

By: A Promising Future for Newspapers « I’m Not Actually a Geek

A Promising Future for Newspapers « I’m Not Actually a Geek — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:31:24 +0000

[...] declining readership, hitting their bottom lines hard. Robert Scoble started a good FriendFeed/blog post around this. Two ideas I read there [...]

By: Printed Matters » Journalism is important

Printed Matters » Journalism is important — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:54:41 +0000

[...] needs journalists. After all, this blog, and others like it, is dedicated to the proposition that journalism needs saving. So we wring our hands, we huff and puff, and occasionally we offer what we think are sensible [...]

By: Las Vegas Video Production

Las Vegas Video Production — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:09:49 +0000

Video editing is a large part of journalism. Finding good software is the first step. Most journalism now has some visual aspect to it, and presenting that information in an appealing way is the easiest way to get people to pay attention to what you are saying.

By: Digidave

Digidave — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 05:41:54 +0000

Wow – I totally forgot about that FF thread. I didn’t realize Jay showed up. He is one of the advisors to Spot.Us – as I worked for him as the first hire at NewAssignment.net

Just to catch you up Robert: Spot.us has fundraised 43% for our second investigation: http://wiki.spot.us/election. All all through donations from members of the public. (http://wiki.spot.us/election).

But – we are still in a pre-alpha mode (made that term up). The site won’t really be ready until October. I just decided it would be silly to sit on my hands until then and it would be smarter to just get started.

Regarding the FriendFeed discussion: I think Scott Rosenbeg, who commented right after my last remark, hit it on the nose: Now is the time for experimentation and innovation. Just like startups in every field the vast majority won’t work – but the law of numbers says some of them will. Journalism is too important to just see it disappear. I don’t think it will either – journalism will survive the death of its institutions – but only if digital natives make it a priority.

By: Herschel

Herschel — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:27:56 +0000

Looks like Ian is right on target. Great journalism will never die. Humanity wants to know what is going on and someone has to the tell “the story.”

The medium by which the story is told is always changing. Who knows, one day we may have the “Borg” implants than connect us all together in a single conscious of nano-second, instant communications.

Oh, by the way Robert, is it just my RSS reader (IE7) having a problem with your blog’s RSS feed? It shows a feed error in IE on your site. Other RSS feeds are working fine. I thought you were take a few days off since the feed didn’t show any new posts.