I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Part 2, Ch. 4 (via crookedtooth)
Model for a 21st Century Newsroom. Text and pics via Online Journalism
The model in action:
- Alert: ‘Lord Smith: “stop ‘Mickey Mouse’ degrees”‘ – link to…
- Draft: gives more detail, and is open to comments and discussion, linking to other blogs. One commenter points out that Lord Smith studied English Literature. Journalist seeks ‘official’ comment to put in the…
- Article: two blog post comments incorporated into a version that goes in the printed newspaper.
- Context: best links taken from blog post comments, as well as full transcript of speech, audio and some mobile phone video taken by one attendee. Tags (’LordSmith’) used to link to ongoing coverage and provide an instant ‘portal’.
- Analysis: one particularly well informed blogger who linked to the Draft post is paid to write a longer piece for the paper. A commenter – an academic – is invited to a podcast discussion with Lord Smith.
- Interactivity: website visitors are invited to ‘attempt an essay question’ from a ‘Mickey Mouse’ degree, giving a real first-hand understanding of what is involved in the subject.
- Customisation: an RSS feed or email alert is available for any stories tagged ‘LordSmith’
noun • /rod-uh-muhn-TADE/ or /roh-duh-muhn-TAHD/ • braggadocio, vain boasting
adjective • pretentiously boastful
verb • to boast or brag pretentiouslyAlternate spelling: rhodomontade. From Rodomont, a boastful character in two famous Italian Renaissance epic poems.
noun • the moment in the plot of a drama in which the hero makes a discovery that explains previously unexplained events or situations
whatannaloves: i miss reading.
in my office, on my desk, is a copy of miles gone by. last night someone defaced the book cover. the book was intended to be a gift. really odd & disappointing on many levels.
So much of what passed for political coverage last night was like watching a manure spreader in a windstorm.
somewhere recently i read the phrase “politics is the opiate of the people” (i’m not sure if it is related to this article). it got me thinking that a lot of americans don’t or can’t distinguish between words & ideas of politics, government & civic life. years ago i read thomas paine’s common sense. at the risk of a sophist overview, the book’s theme expresses that america is a people with a government (not a government with a people).
[on reviewing what i just wrote, i hope i am not mistaken for matt mittan]
anyway, i voted for the city mayor and three city council members.
social media will not replace your marketing campaign efforts & social media should not be confused with cheaper, more effective alternatives to a company’s marketing campaigns. those are my two of my observations.
from 10 Things Social Media Can’t Do by B.L. Ochman (for AdAge.com):
- Substitute for marketing strategy.
- Produce meaningful, measurable results quickly.
- Replace PR.
Read the rest of the list here.
this is something I continue to tell the marketing department, but for some reason i have been moved to the basement with a red stapler…
Ludwig von Feuerbach was a nineteenth-century atheist who curiously declared that God did not make us, but rather we made God as a figment of our imagination.
Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and…. suffering.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (via charlesgomes)
Why did you start your small press/why did you become an independent publisher? What need was not being met by the existing presses? (via)
Coffeehouse Junkie 