The future and past of journalism

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The Look Of The Future Past

The Look Of The Future Past 02/11/2004 12:18 PM
Sure, it isn’t a peek at what has got to be the most intriguing offering to come down the old Hasbro pike, but the image above does shed a little light on the direction the toymakers are going with the new The Original Trilogy line. Coming from a very reliable source, this logo is almost certainly the real deal (though it may only be used for promotion), and with the truly vintage feel it has, there is little doubt the figures that will come in this series will be just as cool…

Intel looks to the future--and the past

Intel looks to the future--and the past 04/14/2005 09:47 PM
CNET News.com Apr 15 2005 1:09AM GMT

Tales of the Future Past

Tales of the Future Past 05/28/2004 03:24 PM

Tales Of Future Past

Tales Of Future Past 05/25/2004 07:16 PM
Here's an interesting review that covers tales of future past -- a website dedicated to collecting images of distant worlds and futures, as predicted by old magazines and science fiction. And there's also RetroFuture to help you remember flying cars and smell-o-vision. Ah, yes, remember when computers were predicted to beat us all at chess? Oh wait.

The future in the web's past

The future in the web's past 06/24/2004 01:30 AM
News.bbc.co.uk - Tue Jun 22, 12:35 pm GMT

Future missive from your own past self

Future missive from your own past self 07/12/2004 10:48 PM
Los Angeles Times Jul 13 2004 3:24AM GMT

SVG's Past and Promising Future

SVG's Past and Promising Future 12/04/2002 08:22 PM
In this month's SVG column, Antoine Quint looks back at SVG's journey through 2002 and looks forward to 2003.

Telecom future to look a lot like the
past - study

Telecom future to look a lot like the
past - study 06/14/2004 06:03 PM
Lumbering dinos hold all the VoIP chips

Preparing For The Future... Or Just
Clinging To The Past?

Preparing For The Future... Or Just
Clinging To The Past? 03/31/2005 02:52 PM
It's completely natural for companies in changing marketplaces to look for ways to protect their existing cash cows -- but it makes for a dangerous long term strategy. Here's another example from the newspaper industry. While not everyone agrees that newsp rint is going away, all of the talk about putti ng up pay walls for the online versions of newspapers or keepin g certain content only in the print edition is all about trying to artificially boost the appeal of the paper version in relation to the digital version. That's backwards. As new studies are showing, many in the younger generation of today won't take a newsprint subscription even if it's free. Not only do they not find it an efficient way to get and read the news, they get upset at the growing pile of newsprint in their homes. It makes them feel guilty for not reading it. It's a psychological barrier that free subscriptions and exclusive content will never get over. Instead, news organizations should be working on ways to better attract users to their digital editions, which means providing them what they want -- not making it harder for them to get what they want.

Discounting IT's past while writing off
its future

Discounting IT's past while writing off
its future 05/02/2004 01:47 AM
Boston Globe May 2 2004 5:02AM GMT

The Industrial Revolution, past and
future

The Industrial Revolution, past and
future 06/13/2004 06:16 PM
The Industrial Revolution, past and future:

The entire human race is getting rich, at historically unprecedented rates. The economic miracles of East Asia are, of course, atypical in their magnitudes, but economic growth is not the exception in the world today: It is the rule.

Nobel Prize winner Robert Lucas discusses wealth redistribution and the world economy.

Exhibiting The House Of The Future From
The Past

Exhibiting The House Of The Future From
The Past 12/30/2004 07:55 PM
Now that we're in predictions season, everyone knows that people will be able to look back and laugh at many of the "long term" predictions that people make, but sometimes people like to go back and commemorate the missed predictions. Apparently, MIT is looking to set up an exhibit in a few years looking at the house of the future that they helped design in 1957. The finished prototype was eventually displayed at Disneyland for a decade, where it was supposed to represent a house in 1987. Of course, most houses in 1987 look fairly similar to houses from 1957, but it still must have seemed like a good idea at the time. Either way, there is something amusing about setting up a "historical" exhibit looking at a "house of the future" when that future, which never actually made it, was supposed to occur years ago.

The Past, Present and Future of Web
Services, part 1

The Past, Present and Future of Web
Services, part 1 09/30/2002 01:53 PM
Web services are somewhere around the crest of their hype cycle and currently the darling of the prevalent media. This cresting is like that of other technologies in that it precedes full development and maturity. Web services, an undoubtedly important technology regardless of media interest, have a good deal of development ahead of them. Those who find success using Web services will be those who understand the technology fundamentally: its motivations, the reasons why some components are winning out over others, and the likely course of maturity.

For this reason, I start with the history of Web services. This is no mere nostalgic side-trip: the business and technical environment into which Web services was conceived, and the various players that have waxed and waned in prominence in their history to date are likely to have a strong effect on the future of Web services. You can already see this happening with developments such as the emerging role of Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) as incubator of security, workflow and transaction standards for Web services. OASIS was once seen as the very opposition to mainstream Web services. -- Uche Ogbuji

"zeldman.dogs"

Companies Browse the Past to Plan Their
Future

Companies Browse the Past to Plan Their
Future 05/21/2004 05:41 AM
Companies Browse the Past to Plan Their Future
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article? AID=/20040509/BUSINESS06/405090320

As managing director of consumer products consulting firm NewProductWorks -- and custodian of "the collection" -- Marilyn Raymond is the keeper of the keys to a vast trove of consumer marketing knowledge that inspires pilgrimages by consumer products manufacturers eager to plumb the past for tomorrow's next great idea. The private collection is an extraordinary assortment of every new consumer food or health and beauty aid product introduced in North America since the early 1970s. With its 80,000 items housed in a former Ferrari dealership in Ann Arbor, Mich., the collection is a 30-year history of American business marketing ingenuity, providing evidence of both brilliant marketing ideas and spectacular flops. Remember Downeyflake's Toaster Eggs, or Gerber baby food for adults? Giants like Procter & Gamble and tiny mom-and-pop inventors all journey to Ann Arbor to view the collection, pick through it for ideas, investigate possible patent infringement, and aid their product research and development. Although the consulting firm can't predict whether a new product will work, it can provide examples of similar past products and explain why they succeeded or failed. "Ninety percent of it is timing," Raymond says. Plus, companies have to understand the American consumer psyche, she adds. For example, one failed product, Fish Nuggets, was marketed in round ice cream-type cartons. Consumers just couldn't stomach the fish and ice cream connection.

Future of Illinois Farm May Lie in
Swampy Past

Future of Illinois Farm May Lie in
Swampy Past 09/27/2004 03:36 AM
Environmentalists say they can return a 7,000-acre farm to its natural state as a thriving wetland by allowing it to flood.

COMMENT: Should computing past pave the
way for the future?

COMMENT: Should computing past pave the
way for the future? 01/02/2005 01:57 PM
All About Symbian Jan 2 2005 2:43PM GMT

The Future of Free Software Lies in The
Past

The Future of Free Software Lies in The
Past 06/05/2005 11:43 PM
Free Software Foundation lawyer Eben Moglen wants to wipe out what he calls the 'scourge' of proprietary software.

In Past Tsunamis, Tantalizing Clues to
Future Ones

In Past Tsunamis, Tantalizing Clues to
Future Ones 01/04/2005 04:54 AM
Undersea quakes are inevitable. The questions are where and when — and the recent catastrophe may provide clues.

Symbian founder on mobile past, present
and future

Symbian founder on mobile past, present
and future 07/21/2004 01:11 PM
Exclusive Why Skype's a chimera and why the iPod is great

Go Digital How far do past visions of
the future match the present?

Go Digital How far do past visions of
the future match the present? 04/12/2004 11:37 AM
BBC Apr 12 2004 3:46PM GMT

China's Past Offers No Guarantee of
Future Returns

China's Past Offers No Guarantee of
Future Returns 02/11/2004 07:54 AM
TheStreet.com Feb 11 2004 12:32PM GMT

Go Digital: 1500 GMT / 160 BST How far
do past visions of the future match the
present?

Go Digital: 1500 GMT / 160 BST How far
do past visions of the future match the
present? 04/12/2004 07:37 AM
BBC Apr 12 2004 11:56AM GMT

Macworld Expo in Boston: Past, Present,
and Future (19-Jul-2004; 4.5K)

Macworld Expo in Boston: Past, Present,
and Future (19-Jul-2004; 4.5K) 07/19/2004 08:28 PM

The danger of the past was that men
became slaves. The danger of the future
is that men may become robots. -- Erich
Fromm

The danger of the past was that men
became slaves. The danger of the future
is that men may become robots. -- Erich
Fromm 11/05/2003 10:53 AM
The History of Robots in the Victorian Era

ESP Journalism

ESP Journalism 07/28/2004 09:54 PM
At 8:50 this evening, CJAD, 800 on your AM dial, reported that John Edwards accepted the party nomination and recounted what he said in his speech. Only problem: It's now 9:50 and Edwards has yet to give his speech. Apparently, Canadian Press jumped the gun with the transcript - explicitly embargoed - circulated by the Democratic PR folks, and CJAD ran with it. Not surprisingly, it made the top listing at Google News....

that bad journalism thing

that bad journalism thing 06/15/2004 03:18 PM
i think it's the Tribune's way of saying they think nobody read Choire's NYT piece

funding journalism

funding journalism 10/29/2003 12:31 PM
Blogger Joshua Micah Marshall solicits funding so he can cover the Howard Dean campaign in New Hampshire. Readers respond with nearly $5,000 in 24 hours. See? You CAN buy that kind of coverage.

When the Journalism Itself Was the Bad
News

When the Journalism Itself Was the Bad
News 12/22/2004 01:06 AM
O PIOR do jornalismo americano em 2004

latimes.com/news/columnists/cl-ca-shaw19dec19,1,2122581.column< br />track this site | 3 links

Jay on whether 9/11 changed journalism

Jay on whether 9/11 changed journalism 08/14/2004 08:22 AM
Jay has blogged an atypical piece that is typically brilliant. He asks: Did 9/11 change journalism? Should it have? What story do journalists tell themselves about their role in the "war on terrorism"? Are journalists who inform citizens of the most powerful and influentual nation in the world participants in the war on terror, in the worldwide struggle for democracy, freedom and markets, because their country is a participant—the biggest by far—and they inform it? Don't miss the discussion in the comments. I only have a simple-minded answer to the question Jay poses in his nuanced post: 9/11 should have...

Reverse Journalism

Reverse Journalism 03/23/2005 01:22 PM
Yesterday I had a long talk about the search competition between Google and MSN. That competition is interesting, but so was the conversation, and what I can say about it. I was talking to a journo from a big-name mag that you see on every newsstand. He’d just been briefed by one of the search titans and wanted some insight from an independent search expert. The briefing was along the lines of “We’re gonna kill ’em dead because of X, Y, and Z” and he wanted my take on X, Y, and Z. Here’s the problem: X, Y, and Z are real interesting, and in particular it’s interesting that the vendor who’d briefed him thought they were important. But you know, I don’t think I can ethically say who the reporter was and who briefed him and what X, Y, and Z are, even though these are things that the vendor was trying to get published; because I didn’t think to ask the journo. Hmm, looks like I covered this ground once already, in August of 2003.

New Journalism Panel

New Journalism Panel 02/10/2004 02:51 AM
I something going on that is changing the journalist role? How do we do this better? Dan: On my right, is Jeff Jarvis, but I won't go into that any further. Jay Rosen Teach-ins should teach us things, the most...

Bloggers vs. Journalism

Bloggers vs. Journalism 02/01/2005 09:48 PM
Mieto Marinadi talks about how a column by Matt i Wuori in Iltalehti is asking if blogs could be journalism and whether they will overrun the traditional media. I think the fact that the question is being asked now shows clearly how much Finland is not a front-runner in the information society game. In fact, this question is not even asked yet by journalists, but a lawyer.

You see, PressThink says the conversation on this subject is already over.

But in order to overrun media, there has to be first a Finnish blog that has something to say in a way that is interesting and new. I much enjoy the writings of Sedis, for example, and I am expecting much from Haltia (and some other political bloggers), now that the Helsinki City Council is starting its work. The new Finland for Thought (in English) keeps also asking important questions, and Kari Haakana is probably the foremost journalistic blogger in Finland. At the moment, Sami Köykkä of Pinseri and Alex Nieminen of sukellus.fi are arguably the most influential bloggers in Finland[1].

But this is not enough. I don't know whether it's even a good start. Most of the "internet discussion" in Finland is done in the scary, yet boring discussion boards of magazines, such as Iltalehti, Iltasanomat, Vauva-lehti, etc, and it is pretty much failing to impact anything. There is little danger to any sort of professional journalism from these discussion boards, who mostly just consist of rehashing the same arguments all over again. The USENET has been in existence for twenty years, and every time I go there, I see the same discussions but with different people. Or sometimes with the same people. It makes you wonder whether these discussion boards ever contributed something to anything, other than in the sense of community creation.

To me, blogs are different from the discussion boards because they are individualistic. A news group is usually referred to by its name, say "the people in sfnet.keskustelu.ihmissuhteet say that...". Similarly in a bulletin board: "Hey, I found this from Vauva-lehti..." On the discussion board, you lose yourself and become a part of a bigger crowd, all shouting at the same time. But a blog is attached to a real person (except for some weir dos who can't seem to be able to decide whether they exist or not). Therefore, whatever a blog says carries more gravity than a random rambling on a news board. It is essentially your own personal publication, and the comments are only a side story - much like "from the readers" -sections on newspapers. Therefore, bloggers are not a community, any more than newspapers are. Some bloggers form communities, yes, but blogs are far too good a ground for egocentrism for communities to become prevalent.

The reason that I find blogs interesting is that they might be the avenue to a real way for individuals (particularly non-journalists and non-politicians) to influence local and national decision-making; the real "information society" that the

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Stand Alone journalism

Stand Alone journalism 06/25/2004 01:34 PM

Standing room

Like some other well-known bloggers before her, Chris Nolan is working on turning her blog into more of a revenue-generati ng business. I like Chris's stuff, even as I sometimes disagree with it, because it's sharp and unpredictable and rooted in her years of experience as a reporter, and so I wish her well in her efforts to sell ads and subscriptions.

Lord knows it's not an easy road. Reading Chris's manifesto for "Stand-Alone Journalism" -- she argues that's a better label for what she does than "blogging" -- brought me back to some distant memories from the dawn of the Web. After learning HTML and participating in the San Franciso Free Press experiment, I thought to myself, hey, there's nothing to stop me from starting my own publication on the Web!

So I did. In January 1995 I took a week's vacation time from my job at the SF Examiner and published a site. I focused on what was then quaintly known as "multimedia"; I called it Kludge, as a nod to its essential clumsiness and improvised nature, and I posted an issue. This was years before personal content management software, needless to say; it's all just cruddy hand-coded HTML and crude self-designed graphics. But the articles weren't so bad (hey, here's an interview with Marc Canter! Here's a satirical take on the CD-ROM explosion/implosion!).

What I quickly realized was that, as much fun as writing, editing and designing all that material was -- bringing me back as it did to my teenage roots in mimeograph publishing -- it was just the beginning of getting a Web site going. If I was serious about making it something more than a labor of love -- if I wasn't going to do all that work on my vacation days -- I'd need to figure out how to get people to visit the site, and how to sell ads, and so forth. My best efforts involved dumping a pile of flyers in the lobby of a multimedia conference at Moscone Center. (While I was doing that, a couple of guys named Jerry Yang and Dave Filo stood at a booth under a big Yahoo banner, giving away T-shirts.)

After briefly toying with the notion of applying to AOL's Greenhouse program for funding, I thought, nah. When David Talbot started talking about a new publication he wanted to create, I helped persuade him that he should do it on the Web instead of in print. Salon turned out to be a great place for me to write and edit and build Web sites without having to wear all the hats myself (though there have certainly been times during the last decade when my pate has felt a little crowded).

Today, would-be "Stand-Alone Journalists" can rely on much better software tools to create and publish their work. They can plug into far better organized online networks to spread the word of their activities. And they can even turn to simple plug-in approaches to advertising, like AdWords or BlogAds, to try to bring in some cash. But being a "Stand-Alone Journalist" still requires a combination of journalistic and entrepreneurial traits that's rare. Being a good journalist requires the ability to not mind pissing people off sometimes (Nolan, whose career has had its share of controversy, is no shirker in this regard); being a good entrepreneur demands the ability to charm people as often as possible. Both pursuits, of course, demand persistence, patience, and, in the face of indifference, a stubborn belief in the value of one's undertaking.

When I read Nolan's proposed label for the solo-blogger-journalist, the first thing that popped into my mind was the famous quote from Ibsen's Dr. Stockman in "Enemy of the People": "The strongest man in the world is the one who stands most alone." Standing alone has many wonderful advantages -- it's a stirring posture. But remember what happens to old Dr. Stockman: He is right to blow the whistle about the polluting of his town's waters, but he's dreadfully naive about the world around him, he's ultimately ineffective, and he fails to accomplish much besides his own martyrdom.

So I'm not sure the "Stand-Alone Journalist" label is one that will stick. The linked nature of the Web is ultimately even more important than the independence of the blogger. Standing alone is useless without being connected.

[Scott Rosenberg]

Participatory journalism

Participatory journalism 08/16/2004 11:52 AM

Participatory (or citizen) journalism is getting a lot of coverage at the moment, thanks in part to Dan Gillmor's new book We the Media. For a great example of participatory journalism in action, check out Wikipedia's outstanding coverage of the 2004 Summer Olympics. It's already a serious competitor to the official site in terms of content, and its wiki nature means it will only get better as the games continue. Hat tip: Gadgetopia.

I've been a fan of Wikipedia's current affairs coverage for quite a while. The site is especially useful in catching up with ongoing stories, in particular for detailed profiles of people and groups currently making the news (random example: Muqtada al-Sadr). Despite the site's open nature (or maybe because of it), they generally do an excellent job of keeping to a ne utral point of view.

Citizen journalism is unlikely to ever replace traditional journalism completely, but it can certainly enhance it. Then again, with OhMyNews now one of the most influential media outlets in Korea (see this interview for details) this is one trend that's not going to go away.

"Webl0gs in Journalism"

"Webl0gs in Journalism" 01/26/2004 09:50 PM

Innovations in Journalism

Innovations in Journalism 02/16/2004 01:22 PM
Making the bold leap from merely waiting for Leander Kahney to watch Blogdex as this link rises, I'm actually going...

Lazy Journalism

Lazy Journalism 12/17/2003 08:29 AM
Richard Forno has done a good job of extolling the virtues of security in Mac OS X. This comes after PC Magazine columnist Lance Ulanoff reported a vulnerability in Mac OS X and went on to write a long and inflammatory tirade about how Mac OS X is no more secure than the Windows OS, and anyone who disagreed was a Mac zealot. Printing stuff like this is guaranteed to cause a stir in the Mac community, and as sure as eggs are eggs, the Slashdot crowd responded in true acerbic fashion. What really bugs me is the lazy journalists who print this stuff. Time after time you get a 'technology' journalist who finds material a bit thin on the ground (or are too lazy to write anything newsworthy) and have a go at Apple and/or the Apple community by writing an overly aggressive or inflammatory article. Why? The primary concern, I guess, being to draw in huge traffic from the offended Apple community websites and somehow earn respect of the Windows crowd by bashing one of their rivals. Jack Schofield from Guardian Online is a prime example. I've no doubt he's a respected 'technology' journalist for a number of years, but his anti-Apple posts on onlineblog (a weblog run by the Guardian Online team) only serve to expose his laziness and spoil an otherwise good read.

Off the Grid Journalism

Off the Grid Journalism 03/06/2004 01:52 AM
When a writer dissents from it, or departs from it, the master narrative is a very real thing. Here are two examples: one from politics, one from music.

Hurricane Journalism

Hurricane Journalism 09/10/2004 12:43 PM
"Conditions are deteriorating, Dwight!" Herald writer's comprehensive guide to Hurricane Journalism. Very important reading for storm-chasing reporters, especially now, as Ivan the Terrible sets its eye on Jamaica, Cuba, and Florida. Found via CapitalWeather. Also check out CaribPundit for Ivan updates and reminiscences of island hurricanes. (Ivan the Terrible? Eye? Get it? Eh? Eh? Yeah, I didn't think it was funny on Fox News either.)
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