Note to “New Media” Morons: It’s About the Message, Not the Medium
A bit of drama flared after Alana Taylor, a journalism student at New York University and self-described “social media maven,” went undercover for PBS’ MediaShift to expose New York University’s stodgy and outdated School of Journalism.
The drama arose not only because Taylor had some pretty harsh things to say about her school, classmates and professor but also because she never disclosed to them that she was going to be an “embedded” reporter for MediaShift as she attended her first day of the class “Reporting Gen Y (a.k.a. Quarterlifers).”
Is Disclosure Meaningless in the Blogosphere?
Disclosing conflicts of interest is standard practice for professional journalists. And it has been a real problem for bloggers (amongst other things).
Yet the news that GigaOm founder Om Malik has become a venture partner at venture capital firm True Ventures has made it quite clear: disclosure is increasingly meaningless in the blogosphere.
As part of its his post on Om’s new job, the New York Times’ Claire Cain Miller spoke with Lee Wilkins, a professor at the Missouri School of Journalism who edits the Journal of Mass Media Ethics. He observed that Om’s promise to be disclosure conflicts is almost entirely irrelevant:
The Chrome Stupidity Continues
The Google Chrome hype train is chugging along at full speed.
Although I’ve ditched Yahoo Finance because it sucks, a reader of The Drama 2.0 Show this morning sent me an email imploring me to look at tech|ticker commentator Henry Blodget’s discussion of Chrome.
Like TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington, Blodget thinks Chrome is big. Real big.
Certainly it’s a browser. It’s going to sit beside the other icons. It sounds like it has a bunch of cool features. It’s totally designed for web applications and things.
Chrome Hype: When Non-Techies Blog About Technology
One of the things that has amused me about the technology blogosphere is the fact that some of its most popular A-listers and B-listers aren’t even legitimate “techies.”
From the misuse of terminology to downright mischaracterizations and misinterpretations, the technology blogosphere has no shortage of technology enthusiasts masquerading as technology experts.
TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington is the perfect example of this.
Arrington has a bachelor’s degree in economics and a law degree from Stanford. He was a corporate attorney in Silicon Valley at O’Melveny & Myers and Wilson Sonsini where he was primarily involved in financing and securities-related tasks for technology startups.
More Evidence Blogging is a Tough Business
Profy was one of the few technology blogs that I still perused on a fairly regular basis. The reason? I always felt that Profy’s Cyndy Aleo-Carriera did a good job at keeping track of the latest happenings in the tech blogosphere (something which I have little interest in doing these days) and filtering out what isn’t important or interesting.
So it was with some surprise that I learned that Profy’s bloggers, Cyndy Aleo-Carriera, Leslie Poston and Triston McIntyre, have all resigned. Aleo-Carriera has moved on to The Industry Standard and Poston and McIntryre have moved on to Tech Blorge and UptownUncorked.
Yahoo Finance Sucks
Question: which of the following headlines does not belong in the list?
- Disappointing By Half: U.S. Earnings Down for Fourth Straight Quarter
- Julia Allison’s Real Test
- Feds Keep Pulling Levers, But Financials’ Fate Ultimately About Fundamentals
- ‘Net Neutrality’ Crowd Wins Battle with Comcast, Likely to Lose War
- Dell Taking on iPod Again? Thank/Blame Disappearing DRM
- For Housing, ‘Hope’ Is a Four-Letter Word
If you selected “Julia Allison’s Real Test,” you are smarter than the people making decisions at Yahoo Finance.
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