Comments on: Rebooting the News #35

By: This week in media musings: The Demand Media invasion, and ‘objectivity’ trumps transparency | Mark Coddington

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:36:36 +0000

[...] Jay Rosen made it (or, more specifically, calling attention to how “demonic” it is) his cause du jour following the publication of this Wired profile of the online content factory. Early this week it [...]

By: Jay Rosen

Jay Rosen — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:02:22 +0000

Yes, a version of this idea--scaled to the local level--can be see at: Myreporter.com. The site is explained a bit here.

By: someBrad

someBrad — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:15:20 +0000

I’m using “journalism hotline” as a label for the vision you described of a place where someone could write in with a question and journalists are standing by to answer them (or at least the good ones). Sounds like a hotline to me, but I don’t care about the name, I just want to know if there is anything like that currently existing.

By: Piers Hollott

Piers Hollott — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:30:16 +0000

re: Demand Media: you see a similar approach to healthcare – SemanticMaven is a tool developed in the U.K. which scrapes healthcare provider information and uses this information to better target these providers in order to provide them with pharmaceutical information. Of course the pharma industry drives the medical industry, but it is a shame that this sort of technology works this way.

By: Steve P.

Steve P. — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:46:18 +0000

Yes, you are asking me to do something. If you are saying that listening to an extended podcast discussion which focuses on a particular point is not enough? You really don’t believe specifics are merited in that context?

By: Jay Rosen

Jay Rosen — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:18:53 +0000

Could you explain what you mean by “the journalism hotline model.” Which model to you refer to?

By: someBrad

someBrad — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:06:30 +0000

Meant to ask in my earlier comment: Of the tools that currently exist, what would you say is the closest to the journalism hotline model described in this week’s podcast?

By: Dave Winer

Dave Winer — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:10:55 +0000

Hi Steve — well, I don’t of course think we’re in dancing on the head of a pin territory, but what difference does it make if we are?

I’m not asking you to do anything — unless I’m missing something.

Also, in Jay’s synopsis, he pointed to a roundup piece I wrote yesterday morning that answered some of your questions. One of your responsibilities is to click on the links and read the pieces before saying we left something out!

By: Steve Provizer

Steve Provizer — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:05:40 +0000

You don’t specifically say what this programmable Twitter client could do that makes it so vital. My assumption is it might save a few key strokes-that correct? Unless I’m missing something, we are in “dancing on the head of a pin” territory here. How repetitious must a person’s tweets be that this would actually solve any problems?

By: someBrad

someBrad — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:40:19 +0000

Great show!

By the way, PBS has already taken the halfway measure of offering a decent amount of their programming as audio and video podcasts.