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• 11.04.09
  The more I see, the more I know… do I start to understand? That part of our future might not be networks, but glass silos? Advertising, General, Journalism | (1)

  'The more I see, the more I know; the more I know, the less I understand... (P Weller, Changing Man) So, Twitter lists. Apologies; this involves a little story. As the more Addiply-aware of you will have, hopefully, twigged we now have a little thang going on with the good people of TrinityMirror and their far-flung North-East, hyper-local outpost; the JournalLive 'Your Place' platform... http://www.journallive.co.uk/northumberland-sites/ Means that we can now offer an little Amble solicitor the chance to advertise to his local community for a fiver a week rather than take a chance that a Google text ad would ping half-way round the world and ...

  Tagged: Addiply, David Cohn, TrinityMirror, TwitterLists
  
• 09.30.09
  Part of an answer, for me, is something simple, rewarding and available in three clicks. Part of every answer, however, will be collaboration between big media and small Advertising, General, Journalism | (1)

  There have been several interesting posts of late; all of which on their own merited deeper consideration in this neck of the woods. Alas, my time hasn't been wholly my own of late; only kid duties have called. But this was great; like really great... http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2009/09/29/mtc09-moritz-wuttke-dont-rely-on-google-and-develop-your-own-adsense/ Because the author - in this case Moritz Wuttke - was delivering the same message to the same audience [the World Association of Newspapers] as Matthew Buckland was earlier this spring; namely that newspaper publishers had to start thinking outside the Google box; that maybe AdSense wasn't doing them any favours... In short, Matthew Buckland was describing www.addiply.com in ...

  Tagged: addiply.com, David Cohn, Google
  
• 04.07.09
  How do we ’save’ journalism? By entering the spirit of this new, post-capitalist age and making transparency our No1 goal. We have to leave the ‘era of sunlight’ behind us… Advertising, General, Journalism | (0)

  It was this headline on BuzzMachine that got me a-thinking; that our Arianna was about to 'save' journalism... http://www.buzzmachine.com/2009/04/06/arianna-huffington-saves-journalism/ It is an interesting piece in the sense that it chimes well with the current debate about 'not-for-profit' business models; that, perhaps, the future of decent journalism might - for now - have to rest with the generosity of a donor or two. Or at least as we wait for new 'Foundations' to spring up to fund various future news organs in the manner of The Scott Trust. News organs, one presumes, that don't look like the MEN, the Reading Bi-Weekly Chron or the ...

  Tagged: David Cohn, Huffington Post, Jeff Jarvis, Spot.Us
  
• 03.22.09
  Beautifully put – that content may well be King, but collaboration is the all-powerful Queen. But who, exactly, to pal up with, that’s the interesting one. My words for your wifi cloud? General, Journalism | (0)

  Unfortunately the original post has gone all 'Error 404' on me, so I can't - for now - link through to DigiDave's masterpiece. Or rather the killer paragraph therein that then got tweetified in the shape of this: 'Content is King, but collaboration is Queen. In Chess king = most important, but Queen = all powerful...' It is a wonderful, wonderful way of looking at our new world and, of course, harks back to one of Jeff Jarvis' greater legacies to this whole new media debate... that you do what you do best, then link to the rest... That given the simple math ...

  Tagged: David Cohn, Jeff Jarvis
  
• 06.24.08
  Bit by bit, the pieces start to fall into place. Let’s give a FaceBook-esque ‘StamfordPeople’ a whirl; how to find yourself a baby-sitter in 2008… General, Journalism, MLW | (0)

  I guess we ought to do the introductions first; or rather, the credit. I stumbled across a guy called Patrick Thornton last night who - from a distance - appears to be one of Jay Rosen's 'posse' out in the States. In that he's just taken over from Knight News Challenge winner David Cohn in working on www.beatblogging.org - http://patthorntonfiles.com/blog/2008/06/19/my-newest-journalism-adventure/ David I've met; co-hosted Jeff Jarvis' www.newsinnovation.com gig in NY last autumn and helped me find an Internet connection - ex-Canary boss Peter Grant was in the midst of getting sacked, if memory serves. Top man. And a Knight News Challenge winner, ...

  Tagged: beatblogging.org, David Cohn, FaceBook, Jay Rosen, Knight News Challenge, NY Times, Oliver Luft, Patrick Thornton, Project Stamford
  

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