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Process vs. Product: Six New-Media Principles, No. 6

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They are no longer handed the finished product in the form of an article and asked to move along. The downside, of course, is that the process is messy and prone to mistakes. The controversial aspects of putting process ahead of product are obvious even in older forms of online media such as blogs.

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A Lesson from the Digital Productivity Terrorists

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Doctorow: Productivity Terrorist? To the traditional print journalist, their new ethos of digital productivity is not just foreign, it’s al-Qaeda foreign. I’m tired of writing the stories, cooking the meals, flying the corporate digital jet and waxing the furniture—figuratively, of course.”

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Digital First, Not Foremost

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That, of course is easier said than done. This, I take it, is what Digital First Media CEO John Paton, much criticized of late , is getting at when he said that his “digital first strategy is centered on the cost-effective creation of content and sales and not the legacy modes of production.”. Try This Test.

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Digital First, Not Foremost

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That, of course is easier said than done. This, I take it, is what Digital First Media CEO John Paton, much criticized of late , is getting at when he said that his “digital first strategy is centered on the cost-effective creation of content and sales and not the legacy modes of production.”. Try This Test.

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Innocent and Malignant Typos and the Case of Filloux v. Jarvis

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In today’s online media, of course, it’s easy to repair such mistakes (as I’ve done in my archived version of that fateful book review). The New York Times reporter’s last name, of course, is Stelter. To be a productive writer, you need a tolerance for innocent slip-ups. What’s odd is how few people bother.

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Digital Drudgery and Second-Stage Shovelware

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He’s right, of course. The journalists who object to liveblogging, he suggests, don’t understand that it is process-driven rather than product-driven: “Most journalists think in a goal-driven way. That, though, is a product of the historic fact that a magazine or newspaper was finished. It’s a shame on at least two counts.

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One Way the Web Will Change the Book

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That’s a strategic exaggeration, of course. That will happen in part because technology frees print from its reliance on paper and traditional, expensive production methods. MUD day 6: New-media enthusiasts, myself included, sometimes talk as though print is dying. No form of media is ever killed off by another.

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