El principal diario de París en la época de Napoleón se llamaba El Constitucional. Cuando Napoleón escapó de su prisión, tituló: “El sanguinario ogro ha abandonado su guarida”. Cuando logró desembarcar en las costas de su patria, el diario tituló: “El bandido de Córcega está en Francia”. Cuando Napoleón ya había armado un ejército y alcanzado la ciudad de Grenoble, El Constitucional tituló: “Bonaparte se encamina hacia París”. Tres días después, tituló: “Napoleón prosigue su avance triunfal”. Un día antes de su llegada a la capital, tituló: “Mañana hará su entrada en París el emperador”. Y el día de su ingreso: “Su Majestad Imperial ha llegado a la capital de sus Estados”. Meses después, Napoleón era definitivamente encarcelado y los títulos de los diarios volvieron a ser los del comienzo.
Influence is the future of media | Ross Dawson, Trends in the Living Network, 26/7/09
After three extremely successful years running the Future of Media Summit, held simultaneously in San Francisco Bay Area and Sydney, it is time to move on. This year the event, run by The Insight Exchange, will be titled Future of Influence Summit. This is because:
Bill Gates quits Facebook | AFP, 25/7/09
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said he was forced to give up on the social networking phenomenon Facebook after too many people wanted to be his friend.
How (and why) to replace the AP | Jeff Jarvis, BuzzMachine, 24/7/09
The Associated Press is becoming the enemy of the internet because it is fighting the link and the link is the basis of the internet. From Richard Perez-Pena’s New York Times story today:
How Reuters Should Be Responding To The AP Suicide | Mike Masnick, TechDirt, 24/7/09
Earlier today we wrote about the AP’s plans to DRM the news, explaining what a backwards plan it was. The story is getting lots of play elsewhere, with many pointing to a NY Times report, where the AP’s CEO Tom Curley makes some amazing statements:
Introducing: the journalist of the future | Adam Westbrook, 23/7/09
This combines the technical skills the new journalist will need (plus the old ones), new ways of collaborating with audiences and journalists across the globe; and most importantly an entrepreneurial edge to create an army of “creative entrepreneurs”.
A.P. Cracks Down on Unpaid Use of Articles on Web | Richard Pérez-Peña, The New York Times, 23/7/09
Taking a new hard line that news articles should not turn up on search engines and Web sites without permission, The Associated Press said Thursday that it would add software to each article that shows what limits apply to the rights to use it, and that notifies The A.P. about how the article is used.
Newspaper Readers Buy Papers for the Content | Ryan Chittum, Columbia Journalism Review, 23/7/09
Circulation Revenue Only Thing Growing at Newspapers (part one)
The New York Times reported some good news today, namely that it was profitable in the second quarter. But, of course, with any sliver of good news from the media business these days, it’s not that simple.
How The Times’ Home Page Gets Made | Gillian Reagan, The NY Observer, 21/7/09
By most counts, New York Times deputy managing editor Jonathan Landman still considers the front page of the printed newspaper a sacred space, a place where editors and reporters display their best work and uphold the tradition of The Times’ quality reporting. “The front page is still a front page; there’s still six stories there, and they are what they are,” Mr. Landman told The Observer. “They occupy the same positions that they always have. If they are influential or not influential, it’s for the same reasons, right?” Continuar leyendo
Deconstructing News Stories into Tweets | David Brewer, Pynter Online, 20/7/09
130 years of must-read stories for digital journalists: Five lessons from 1851-1981 | Abraham Hyatt, abrahamhyatt.com, 20/7/09
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The Internet and the Recession | Lee Rainie / Aaron Smith, Pew Internet, 19/7/09
More than two-thirds of Americans – 69% – have used the internet to help them with personal economic issues that have arisen in the recession and to gather information about the origins and solutions to national economic problems. That amounts to 88% of the adult internet users in the country.