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How ‘vs.’ thinking drags everyone down – Lost Remote TV Blog
“Blogs vs. news. Web vs. print. You can find tons of “vs.” at every j-conference. “Vs.” supposes there are 2 choices. Assuming we need a “vs.” is a major reason why traditional media and new media aren’t performing as well as they could.” (tags: media adversarial controversy journalism media+evolution tidbits+fodder psychology language)

BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Me vs NYT at OPA re WWGD
“We were also disagreeing about something more fundamental or at least refreshingly different from the old blogger-v-msm debate. We were arguing about the centralized-v-distributed architecture of media.” (tags: adversarial events controversy blogging journalism mindset media+evolution tidbits+fodder)

howardowens.com: media blog » Blog Archive » The Neisenholtz and Javis debate at OPA
“Hear NYT’s Martin Neisenholtz reveal just how little he understands blogs & how trapped he remains in Big-J thinking about what blogging is and its role in the mediascape. It’s surprising that a major media leader would still hold those views.” (tags: leadership mainstream+media mindset problems psychology blogs journalism media+evolution tidbits+fodder)

paidContent.org – The Economics of Content – Nisenholtz vs Jarvis: The Middle Ground of Journalists vs Bloggers
“At the OPA Global Forum last week in London…I was sitting behind Martin Nisenholtz, the CEO of New York Times Digital, and recorded this with my Nokia N80.” Debate between Nisenholtz and Jeff Jarvis. (tags: video events controversy blogs journalism media+evolution mindset adversarial tidbits+fodder)

Polyamory in the News: The shifting meaning of the word “polyamory”
“When a concept goes mass-market it often gets cheapened and degraded. Even the most wonderful trend is liable to turn sour on going downmarket, much to its originators’ dismay, with ugly unintended consequences.” She points to several mistaken uses. (tags: language evolution community polyamory corrections trends)