Nick Bergus Thoughts on what media do, and can do better, and other things

Raft on fire!
Jason Fry’s Reactions to Nieman, Part 2
…the print-centric business model is a burning raft — and when you’re on a burning raft, you have to plan differently.
Ford
Geir Stene’s Media business revenues are dropping so might your Company’s!
The challenges are huge and concern all of us. Rapid changes are hard to handle. I put [...]

Robert Niles posted a list of 8 things journalism students should demand from their journalism schools. Included on that this was “a place to hack”
Online is becoming the dominant news publish medium. And online publishing will not look the way it does today 10 years from now, just as it looks little now like it [...]

I usually cover social media generally — and Twitter specifically — as a reporting and audience-building tool the last day of my multimedia course. (Social media isn’t multimedia per se, but I worry that if I don’t cover it, it won’t come up at the j-school at all, though that’s changing.) This semester, I’ve moved it [...]

WordPress just added support on its hosted blogs (all 7.5 million of them) for a new Dave Winer project called RSS Cloud. It is system for RSS, which allows users to subscribe to content and is also the hidden backbone for services such as Twitter, that updates compatible readers in real time.
Essentially, this is an [...]

Selling snowmen to Eskimos
Information Architects‘ “The Value of Information”
Information on the Internet is as common as snow in the arctic. You can’t expect Eskimos to buy a snowman.
Jay Rosen on Twitter
Journalist: hey, I made a snowman. Inuit: nice! Journalist: it took me all day. Inuit: what’s your point? Journalist: that’ll be five bucks.