Filter bubbles burst, blind spots shrunk, curation over SEO: Rachel Sklar’s predictions for 2012
We’re wrapping up 2011 by asking some of the smartest people in journalism what the new year will bring. Bringing us home is Rachel Sklar, a media and cultural critic who is the co-founder of Change The Ratio, an adviser to early-stage startups, and a heavy-to-compulsive-tweeter.
Filter bubbles burst, blind spots shrunk, curation over SEO: Rachel Sklar’s predictions for 2012
We’re wrapping up 2011 by asking some of the smartest people in journalism what the new year will bring. Bringing us home is Rachel Sklar, a media and cultural critic who is the co-founder of Change The Ratio, an adviser to early-stage startups, and a heavy-to-compulsive-tweeter.
Filter bubbles burst, blind spots shrunk, curation over SEO: Rachel Sklar’s predictions for 2012
We’re wrapping up 2011 by asking some of the smartest people in journalism what the new year will bring. Bringing us home is Rachel Sklar, a media and cultural critic who is the co-founder of Change The Ratio, an adviser to early-stage startups, and a heavy-to-compulsive-tweeter.
Filter bubbles burst, blind spots shrunk, curation over SEO: Rachel Sklar’s predictions for 2012
We’re wrapping up 2011 by asking some of the smartest people in journalism what the new year will bring. Bringing us home is Rachel Sklar, a media and cultural critic who is the co-founder of Change The Ratio, an adviser to early-stage startups, and a heavy-to-compulsive-tweeter.
Martin Langeveld: A look back at my 2011 predictions, along with a fresh batch for 2012
We’re wrapping up 2011 by asking some of the smartest people in journalism what the new year will bring. Next up is Martin Langeveld, who spent 30 years in the daily newspaper business, 13 as a publisher, and who contributes regularly to the Lab.
Image as interest: How the Pepper Spray Cop could change the trajectory of Occupy Wall Street
In his Times column this morning, David Carr wonders about the future of the Occupy Wall Street movement and, specifically, its fate as an ongoing topic of mass-media conversation. “Occupy Wall Street left many all revved up with no place to go,” he writes. Which is a problem, traditional-press-coverage wise, because: “In addition to the...
How niche is too niche? The case of gay news blogs
According to David Carr, niche news sites have the edge in the media world. Giant ocean liners like AOL and Yahoo are being outmaneuvered by the speedboats zipping around them: relatively small sites that have passionate audiences and sharply focused information. As it turns out, though, niche isn’t always profitable. Take gay news sites and...
Information’s triumph? Three ways TechCrunch challenges ideas of journalism
I'll dispense with a lengthy overview of the controversy that erupted when AOL CEO Tim Armstrong and Silicon Valley power-broker and TechCrunch founder Mike Arrington announced the launch of what they called “the CrunchFund" — a venture fund that will “invest in start-ups, including some that [Arrington] and his staff write about" on TechCrunch, their incredibly...
Jon Stewart on Rupert Murdoch, Wendi Deng, and The Pie. And, of Course, Fox News (Video).
Plus a bonus PhoneGate clip: Stephen Colbert hands over his stage to the New York Times' David Carr.
