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Most famous for his articles about Joe DiMaggio, Dean Martin, and Frank Sinatra, Gay Talese describes the deleterious effects that recording devices, hollowed expense accounts, and an emphasis on ‘indoor life’ have had on the writing process. Talese does a fantastic job of illustrating the point on how technology has impacted journalism.

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Non-linearity of technology adoption. [cdixon.org] Great piece about complement effects and technology adoption by Chris Dixon. I’ve learned more about business, investing, and entrepreneurship from VC bloggers than perhaps I could have from any MBA program. Okay that’s a stretch, but I heave learned a great deal from investors like Chris Dixon, Fred Wilson, and [...]

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Dad’s Rants Become a Twitter Hit. [Wall Street Journal] Let’s start with some fun. This one is absolutely hilarious! Daily quotes from Dad Says on Twitter. “Don’t touch the bacon, it’s not done yet. You let me handle the bacon, and i’ll let you handle…what ever it is you do. I guess nothing.” – (NSFW) [...]

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Arnon Mishkin, partner with the  Mitchell Madison Group, a consultancy specializing in earnings improvement primarily through cost reduction and operational re-design, recently published an article, “The Fallacy Of The Link Economy” in which he discussed the changing nature of reporting and the level of value captured by links from aggregators back to producers of original [...]

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At the cusp of contact info convergence. [The Rik Notes]
On the link economy. [Jeff Jarvis]
FLYP’s James Gaines Offers Old Media A New Way Of Thinking About Online Content. [Media Bistro]
The Real-Time Web Is Not Hype: We Are All Traders Now. [RWW]
AP contradiction: Move forward but restore. [Steve Buttry]
The Most Interesting New Tech Startup of 2009. [...]

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On A Distributed Microblogging Network. [Taylor Heffernan]
Scarcity, Experience, and A New Seat At An Old Table. [Barrett Garese]
Are You a Digital Sharecropper? [Coding Horror]
Why The AP Plans to Hold Some Web Content Off The Wire. [Nieman]
Locational Privacy, The EFF Weighs In. [O'Reilly Media]
The Case For Nonprofit Journalism? [Brad Rourke's Blog]
Gov 2.0: The Promise Of Innovation. [...]

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From NPR’s On The Media. For the full Copyright Flack transcript visit NPR.

With the AP’s new news DRM distribution system and the struggling newspaper industry, NPR and First Amendment lawyer David Marburger discusses the redistribution of the news and the U.S. Copyright Act.

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Wired: Why is Obama’s top antitrust cop gunning for Google?
New York Times: Not many positive stories on venture investment this year. Venture investment shrinks to pre-bubble levels.
You Tube Bizblog: YouTube myth busting.  Five myths, busted?
Nieman Lab: Niche outlets replace newspapers in Washington *counting reporters.
ZDNet: In response to the Altimeter Group report.  Does social media really [...]

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You Tube launched the YouTube Reporters’ Center on Monday, June 28 as a hub for teaching citizen journalists to become better reporters by providing interviews and instructional videos with tips and advice for better news reporting.

For YouTube, it’s a great strategy. YouTube Reporters’ Center augments their growing news reporting programming presence on the web influenced [...]

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AVC:  Aggregate, Curate, Publish to Create Local Media.
YouTube Blog: Mobile uploads to YouTube increase exponentially.
Crain’s:  Les Hinton calls Google ‘digital vampire.’
Scobilizer: The newspaper industry just gave away another free meal.
Nieman Journalism Lab: Chat with Steve Brill.
Tech Crunch: The Twitter cycle: curiosity, abandonment, addiction.
Wired: The Nike experiment, the power of personal metrics.
Ars Technica: Australian ‘Net filter [...]

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