Save the Media

I heard the news about Editor & Publisher closing as I hear many things these days – through Twitter. Patrick Thornton (jiconoclast) tweeted: “Does anything better symbolize the state of print media right now than the closure of E&P? Yes things are very bad.” At first, I hoped his tweet didn’t mean what I knew it [...]

If you’ve been on Twitter or pretty much anywhere online in the recent past , you’ve learned that Twitter has been playing a key role in allowing news about the contentious presidential election in Iran to be spread throughout the world.
What’s notable is many doing the reporting are regular folks, not journalists, and the act [...]

Time for some short-takes, thoughtful ideas from across the blogosphere:
Media companies of the future: Chris Brogan, a new media marketing consultant, came up with his idea of what the next media company would look like, starting from scratch. I like his ideas, especially:

Everything is modular and linkable. Everything is fluid. Meaning, if I want the publication [...]

I haven’t done short takes in a while, so here are some interesting finds from around the blogosphere:
The value of small talk: Steve Yelvington has the best explanation I’ve read so far for the value of social media. He compares the gabbing over Twitter, for example, that so many find banal to the glad-handed chit-chat [...]