Apr 28
For me, the story was the power of a publishing platform, an egnaged audience, the reward of journalism and the challenge mainstream media will always face if it trys to compete, rather than cooperate against non-mainstream.
The power of a passionate journalist
Hunting for Fashion's Copycats, in Thursday's Wall Street Journa is about how a part-time blogger on fashion led to the withdrawal by Channel of a bracelet that was a close copy of bracelet designed by Pamela Love in 2011.
Call them fans, amateurs, part-timers, free-lancers, bloggers, whatever -- it's people who are extrememly passionate about topics.It's a large and visible group in sports, tech, music, books, fashion. It's a smaller, but no less passionate group in stamp collecting, woodworkng, antique cars, etc.
Mainstream news organizations need to embrace and cultivate the passionate as readers, sourcess, conributors, partners. It's not a natural role for newsrooms and there will be many lessons learned along the way.
Apr 22
Economix: Young Women Are More Career-Driven Than Men
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/19/young-women-are-more-career-driv...
Women 18 to 34 years old now place more importance on having a high-paying career or profession than their male counterparts do, according to survey data from the Pew Research Center.
Apr 18
Markdown? Hmmm
3 Reasons Why Everyone Needs to Learn Markdown
http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2012/04/why-you-need-to-learn-markdown.php
Dec 5
A bleak future for the Knowledge industry?
“Newspapers, encyclopedias, they are just gone, at the touch of a hyperlink,” Mr. Weinberger said. The institutions of “education and politics – they’ll just shatter. How did they get to be so fragile? -- Sobering questions.
Nov 21
War of currents fills a gap
Don't know much about elecricity, but War of Currents, helped fill in a gap while I'm reading The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson.
