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November 2009

Carr Recognizes that Young People Are Innovating Media

November 30, 2009

I’m happy that the Times decided to publish a piece about the entrepreneurial efforts of the unexperienced – I get the sense that most publications aren’t really interested in the struggles of young people trying to make and remake the world. This article marks a turning point in the way we think about the media industry.

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Curiosity Made the Cat

November 25, 2009

Marketing expert Seth Godin wrote: “I’ve noticed that people who read a lot of blogs and a lot of books also tend to be intellectually curious, thirsty for knowledge, quicker to adopt new ideas and more likely to do important work. I wonder which comes first, the curiosity or the success?”. Here is my answer.

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No, Wendy Rieger, Blogging ? Citizen Journalism

November 24, 2009

When I was at the American University panel last week, I found myself getting really angry at the fact that none of the other panelists wanted to make a distinction between blogging and citizen journalism. One of my panel mates came down hard on citizen journalism. It took all my strength for me not to interrupt.

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Doctors Diagnose Digitention Deficit Disorder

November 23, 2009

Last week, Too Shy to Stop published “The Sad Nature of Adaptation, or Why the Media Sucks” by Peter Ricci. In Too Shy to Stop history, this article attracted the most comments. Some of the commenters jabbed at the length of Peter’s article: “Waaaaaaaaayyyy too long” and “2,000 words is too long for an online piece”.

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Reflections from American University Student Forum

November 19, 2009

Last night, I participated in a panel discussion at American University titled “The Future of Journalism: A Degree Worth Pursuing?”. The two other panelists were Wendy Rieger, a newscaster from channel 4, and Josh Kraushaar, a reporter from POLITICO. I would like to share a few points from my notes.

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Letting Go to Grow Artistically

November 16, 2009

Over the weekend, I had the pleasure of reading Happyloo: Friends, Foes, and Fun by my friend Mark Mariano. A colorful and playful comic book filled with characters like Tickle, a friendly turtle, and Meatsauce, a gentle yet dim-witted bulldog who loves food, Happyloo first ran on Mark’s website from June 25, 2008 to January 19, 2009.

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We’re All Closeted Unreliable Narrators

November 12, 2009

Last week, I wrote a post about the web and unreliable narrators. The web lets us be unreliable narrators for a certain amount of time, but if we are disconnected for a moment, the real world will find out our true identities. Which aspects of your personality do you like to present using social media and/or your blog?

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The World Is Your Art Supply Store

November 11, 2009

During a cleaning spree this past weekend, I found all my old arts and crafts supplies. In three large boxes and some large shopping bags were all the unused arts and crafts supplies that I had collected over the past 23 and a half years. Needless to say, I found a lot of raw material for artistic inspiration.

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