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

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.

A Married Couple
Jay Rosen, on Twitter
Maybe AP and its members are like a married couple afraid to call it quits. So the tension comes out at scrapers, linkers and freeloaders.

A Migrating Tribe
Jay Rosen’s Migration Point for the Press Tribe
And like reluctant migrants everywhere, the people in the news tribe have to decide what to take with them, when to leave, where to land. They have to figure out what is essential to their way of life, and which parts were well adapted to the [...]

You can read the premise behind this in the orginal news metaphor post, which was linked to by Jim Romenesko, Jay Rosen and The New York Times‘ David Carr, among others. That post has grown unmanageably large so I’ve created a category for it. You can still suggest metaphors via e-mail, Twitter, Publish2 (tagged “newsmetaphors”) [...]

Combing through my RSS feeds earlier this week, I came across a post from Rob Curley looking for interns. I posted a link on Twitter, which then goes to FriendFeed and Facebook (which, sadly, still makes it impossible to find permalinks), since the Las Vegas Sun is doing really cool things and thought my students [...]

In Monday’s Corridor Business Journal is the first of what we plan to be a monthly media column that I will write with John Goodlove. In this installment, we wrote about the recent announcement that The Gazette is restructuring its newsroom, and the following staff uneasiness.
Mr. Goodlove is a grizzled newspaper veteran while I’m younger [...]