Sat.Oct 09, 2010 - Fri.Oct 15, 2010

B2B Memes

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Is a Blog Just a Container?

B2B Memes

Photo courtesy Haags Uitburo. Today I came across a comment from Adam Tinworth on the reignited debate, in certain UK circles at least, over whether bloggers can be legitimate journalists. This debate—fairly one-sided in favor of blogs—was set off by the probably unscripted speechifying of British journalist - historian Andrew Marr. In reflecting on this latest blogger brushoff, Adam Smith approvingly quoted Tinworth’s comment on Twitter that “you can do journalism on a blog” and that Marr is “m

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The Lure of a Dying Profession

B2B Memes

I saw pale kings and princes too / Pale warriors, death-pale were they all. On his Guardian blog today, Roy Greenslade noted a curious phenomenon involving current journalism students. Though they don’t actually read newspapers or use other traditional media, nearly all want to work for these declining mainstream outlets rather than pursue new-media and entrepreneurial opportunities.

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