Category Archives: relevanceJournalists typically recoil at the thought of writing anything that resembles marketing copy — or even from thinking of news as a product. But we’re already long past the age when an established news brand was all you needed to determine the relevance and quality of news. If journalists truly believe the quality of their [...]
NOTE: This is part 2 of a multipart series. See the series intro. More to come over the next few days.
This series is a work in process. I’m counting on Contentious.com readers and others to help me sharpen this discussion so I can present it more formally for the Knight Commission to consider.
So please [...]
Clearly Ambiguous, via Flickr (CC license)
Local is just one set of ripples on the lake of news and information.
UPDATE SEPT. 15: I’ve launched a new series fleshing out this discussion. See Being a Citizen Shouldn’t Be So Hard! Part 1: Human Nature
When it comes to information that helps people function better as citizens in a [...]
Just now, Jeff Jarvis posted something that resonates strongly with me. See: The myth of the creative class:
“We have believed - I have been taught — that there are two scarcities in society: talent and attention. There are only so many people with talent and we give their talent only so much attention — not [...]
Gary W. Priester (Click image to enlarge.)
Often, the first challenge in life is simply to see the target.
I really used to hate stereograms.
When they became popular in the early 1990s, they often reduced me to serious frustration and headaches. I would stare at them — glare at them, really — trying to will their embedded [...]
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