Well, it has been a while, but I have a good excuse. I have spent my semester break in Iran, where there is internet (cafes are inexplicably called ‘coffeenets’ though have no coffee…) but it is fairly slow and all manner of sites are blocked. More on that later.
In the meantime, here are some links from the last couple of days:
- ABC’s Mark Scott has predicted the future of media, and unlike Murdoch, has his head well and truly out of the sand. It takes a bit of time to read, but is worth it.
- A lovely New Yorker humour piece about the brave new world of publishing in the digital age.
- Somewhat related to the Mark Scott speech in terms of the attitude of media organisations towards the new media world, is an interesting discussion about the social media policies of NPR vs. The Washington Post by Michelle McLellan and also by Steve Buttry. As McLellan put it, the old guard sees social media as a ‘hazard’, where as NPR sees it as valuable. Reading through the two excerpts, I thought the difference between the two policies was a little overstated by these bloggers; except that NPR does explicity encourage its journalists to exploit the potential of social media.
More on Iran to come…
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