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For a Guy Who Writes About Newspapers, Scoble sure is a Good Photographer

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“In general, I have very little time for Scoble, and true to form there are about six things in the first half of this alone that make me want to beat the stupid out of him with a shovel. But there’s also food for thought in there this time.” -lifted from a delicious note

Here is the offending article: The newspaper industry just gave away another free meal, er Twitter: do they have any left? -from scobleizer.com

What isn’t explored in Robert Scoble’s article, or maybe what isn’t understood by the author of that article, is that when a disruptive technology comes along, The Internet, in this case, little to nothing can be done to prevent seismic changes in business practices.  Mark Federman sums this up way better than I can.  Here he is talking about Marshall McLuhan’s famous line “the medium is the message”. Continue reading →

Clay Shirky – “Don’t Worry About Information Overload”

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“There’s always a new Luddism whenever there’s change.” – interview by Russ Juskalian from Columbia Journalism Review -Go read this interview it is great!

from the interview, “What the Internet has actually done is not decimate literary reading; that was really a done deal by 1970. What it has done, instead, is brought back reading and writing as a normal activity for a huge group of people.”

That’s a great point, and one that newspaper and television owners, I suspect, are terrified of.  People are now “distracted” by doing things other than reading a newspaper or watching television.    

 -Go read this great interview!