links for 2007-07-11
Wednesday, 11 July 2007, 13:21
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Clay Shirky: “A Luddite argument is one in which some broadly useful technology is opposed on the grounds that it will discomfit the people who benefit from the inefficiency the technology destroys … especially if the discomfort of the newly challenged
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Allan Prosser: “Being local used to involve standing outside funerals taking the names of mourners as they left. … Communities had an identifiable structure. … Life in 2007 is infinitely more complicated.”
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A new section for all the wacky stuff that will populate the “most read” feature?
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Oliver Luft chats with Ben Hammersley about the social media reporting experiment following his return from Turkey.
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“UFO sightings have fallen dramatically in the last decade. Why? Because of ubiquitous camera phones.”
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“Blogs are a good case where ‘time spent’ is more meaningful than page views. Especially since the blogosphere is particularly prone to the ‘quantity over quality’ problem. It’s easy to pump out 20+ posts a day - and that tactic garners a lot of page view
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Al Jazeera English is looking for viewer feedback via YouTube.
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“So where does the renewed scare about the MMR vaccine come from? This is where the reporting becomes more difficult to assess.”
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“The key question is - from an economic pov, how much long-run value is Facebook really creating?”
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Gawker spots one of the unfortunate unintended consequences of moving towards time-based metrics instead of pageviews…
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