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There Are Two Sides to Every Editorial Wall

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Those attitudes have helped push the news industry into its current dire state.” Benkoil seems to recognize this when he writes (emphasis mine), “Can you name another business in which the people who make the key product are allowed, even encouraged , to be ignorant of how they make money?”

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What B2B Publishers Don’t Get: You Can’t Own the Conversation

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Publishers have a product focus, and to them, a social network is just another product. But the bigger problem lies with the attitude of most publishers toward the social networks they want to build. There’s some truth to that, as I’ll suggest. But he omits the bigger point. And you can’t own a conversation.

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Swabbing the Decks of the Titanic: Why You Should Learn Programming

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If they don’t have a positive, can-do attitude towards programming, they won’t succeed. There’s nothing new about needing to comprehend the means of your production in order to perfect your message. Does this mean that most journalists will need to be experts in one or more specific programming languages? I don’t think so.

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We’ve Got Algorithms. Who Needs Editors?

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Computed content is a set of data; communication is the expression of an attitude toward, or perspective on, those data. If you balance crowd-sourced feedback with the content creator’s point of view, you’ll have a productive conversation. But we should be careful not to confuse computed content with communication.

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