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How Can I Make You Pay for This Post?

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But I’d rather think of the challenge this way: how to create content so good, and a distribution mechanism so simple, that people want to pay for it. Related posts: Information Also Wants to Be Expensive. The content market is no longer about control, but collaboration, about equal exchange.

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

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By turning the process itself into the product, formerly behind-the-scenes editorial judgments can be discussed and validated, news and other information can be shared more rapidly, and inevitable errors can be more quickly identified and corrected. But the benefits of journalism as a process ultimately outweigh the drawbacks.

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

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Those journalists, he says, must be able to “construct, manipulate, and advance digital distribution of content and information.” Likewise, in the digital medium, studying what’s under the hood gives you greater flexibility in presenting and distributing your content.

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Why Aggregation Is Not Distasteful

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After offering a few mild criticisms of Keller’s anti-aggregation editorial, I received this comeback: “If stories were aggregated & printed to distribute, I think people would find that distasteful. Any journalist who ignores or deprecates such a useful tool for sharing information with readers is doing them a disservice.

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Managing Your Career in the Social Media Era: Sources

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“Tomorrow’s companies will build empires based on the value that they deliver to their users and advertisers every day, not on their ability to finance and manage scarce bandwidth or expensive printing presses or exclusive distribution networks.”. “No What Would Google Do? , by Jeff Jarvis.

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Nine Keys to a Robust Editorial Career in Social Media

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You’ve probably heard the horror stories about people leaving compromising or questionable information about themselves on the Web that ends up damaging their job prospects. You can put together an e-book of 30 or 40 pages, distribute it on your blog, and get many of the benefits of traditional book publishing.

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Lytro Photography and the Advance of Data Journalism

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One way to achieve it, Walker writes, is to use “hundreds of cameras to capture all the visual information in a scene,” then use a computer to process the results “into a many-layered digital object.” Distribute that image, he continues, and “the viewer can choose—I don’t want to sound professorial—but can choose the truth.”.