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Comment on I’m fainting by Gregory Reese

Gregory Reese — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:56:28 +0000

Prologue

SPOKEN BY THE PLAIN DEALER

I the Plain Dealer am to act to-day,
And my rough part begins before the play.
First, you who scribble, yet hate all that write,
And keep each other company in spite,
As rivals in your common mistress, fame,
And with faint praises one another damn;

William Wycherley’s The Plain Dealer (1677)

Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer;
Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike.

Alexander Pope (1735)

Sir, I am am tolerably certain that, in these two instances, for lo, these many years Wycherley and Pope have not been misquoted.

Comment on Journalism and social media whitepaper by Liens vagabonds (1er juin) | Metamedia

Liens vagabonds (1er juin) | Metamedia — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 11:25:27 +0000

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Comment on Online Journalism Blog: Guest post: visualising mobile phone data – the data retention app by Heidi Weeler

Heidi Weeler — Thu, 12 May 2011 02:42:24 +0000

Sorry for typo’s in previous post. Long day and a malfunctioning keyboard..lol

Comment on Online Journalism Blog: Guest post: visualising mobile phone data – the data retention app by Heidi Weeler

Heidi Weeler — Thu, 12 May 2011 02:40:58 +0000

American Media Distribution – A sign of the times.
I thought you and your readers might want to hear about this one.
I received an odd email that turned out to be an interesting job offer. It seems there is a company that is changing the way freelance journalists get jobs. They have a nationwide network of reporters that they dole out event coverage to when they receive an order from a national magazine or news bureau. Instead of the magazine sending an in-house reporter out to cover an event or story they cal one of their reporters in their nationwide network to go cover it locally so it cuts down the travel expenses for the magazine. They are kind of a “Freelancer” temp agency, or freelancer agent. I though I would tell you about them because I made a bit of money already covering a couple of event for them and thought it was very interesting and a sign of the recession laced times we reporters are living in here in the states.

Comment on Comment is free, but won’t be anonymous by Why HuffPo’s British Empire Dream Could Fall Flat: Tech News and Analysis «

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:03:50 +0000

[...] similar political territory, already made a deliberate move to ape HuffPo’s commentary with its Comment is Free site, launched five years [...]

Comment on Twitter users: narcissistic, insecure, lacking identity and mundane by Martin Stabe

Martin Stabe — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 09:52:52 +0000

@Steve

Who is to judge what is “irrelevant banter”? If I were to encounter you and your friends in a pub, I’m sure I would find your banter irrelevant, too. Your friends, however, might find it very interesting and informative. Twitter is no different: One man’s “diarrhea of the mouth” is another man’s insightful comment on the issues of the day within their particular community.

The reason so many people see it, as you do, as “pointless, intrusive, shallow chatter of the lowest order and phylum” is, I suspect, because we are unaccustomed for this type of semi-private human communication to be carried out on sophisticated and public communications platform. Historically, one-to-many broadcast media have been expensive and therefore the preserve of those wishing transmit high value information and cultural output.

More banal communication has historically been confined to private, peer-to-peer channels like letters, the telephone and (more recently) email. Twitter upends this old distinction, hence the moral panic it caused when it first went mainstream.

Comment on Twitter users: narcissistic, insecure, lacking identity and mundane by Steve

Steve — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 20:06:28 +0000

I have to disagree with you Mr. Stabe, in your defence of Twitter. The Times article makes for a strong argument, e.g. the narcisissm and lack of identity of Twitter users. But more to the point: in this post digital era of internet, email, cell phones, facebook, and now Twitter–humans are being overrun with an endless torrent of information, too much in fact. Twitter serves to only compound this problem. Twitter could most aptly be described as “diarrhea of the mouth”, this endless fountain of irrelevant banter. “What are you doing now?” is the Twitter catch phrase on the Twitter website as they try to sell Twitter to the masses. “Find out what your friends are doing through their day”. Maybe Twitter appeals to people who have a fear of being alone, in peace? Quite likely. It appeals to people who fear being alone, fear quiet, fear not talking about anything to anyone. Its little wonder there is an explosion of attention deficit disorder these days. Twitter is the perfect application to keep you distracted all day long. Twitter may have exceptional uses, as in emergency communications, but by and large it serves as a platform for pointless, intrusive, shallow chatter of the lowest order and phylum.

Comment on Flowing Data: Adults with college degrees, over time by Tweets that mention Martin Stabe's Blog -- Topsy.com

Tweets that mention Martin Stabe's Blog -- Topsy.com — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 19:47:12 +0000

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Comment on allmediascotland: Subscriber Success for New News Website by news online

news online — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 00:08:18 +0000

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Comment on #pimpmyblog: Blogging is about reading, not just writing by psmith, journalist › The sad story of Yahoo, Delicious and what to use next

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 14:05:26 +0000

[...] be downloaded if the service goes belly-up. As Martin Stabe has presciently warned for years (and did so recently), if you don’t keep a copy of all this stuff – no one else [...]

Comment on Press Gazette: Newspaper Licensing Agency suspends invoicing users of new ‘link tax’ by Copyright? Really? | Mark Van Hoorebeek

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Comment on Press Gazette: Newspaper Licensing Agency to regulate web hyperlinks by Meltwater | Mark Van Hoorebeek

Meltwater | Mark Van Hoorebeek — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 15:23:25 +0000

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Comment on News personalisation as it should be by psmith, journalist › Busy times: TheMediaBriefing, conferences and student blogging advice

Thu, 25 Nov 2010 11:07:13 +0000

[...] You can sign up as a registered user (for free) and track the topics you want to follow, as Martin Stabe points out very nicely. We’re working with Idio on this to make it better all the time so feedback is [...]

Comment on What publishers can learn from Tesco Clubcard by links for 2010-11-19 » Wha'Happened?

links for 2010-11-19 » Wha'Happened? — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:03:38 +0000

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Comment on News personalisation as it should be by What publishers can learn from Tesco Clubcard | Martin Stabe

What publishers can learn from Tesco Clubcard | Martin Stabe — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 10:11:58 +0000

[...] Every since leaving Retail Week, I’ve been mulling a series of posts about what online publishers can learn from online retailers, particularly in the area of personalising content. [...]

Comment on Moving on: a new job by What publishers can learn from Tesco Clubcard | Martin Stabe

What publishers can learn from Tesco Clubcard | Martin Stabe — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 10:10:59 +0000

[...] since leaving Retail Week, I’ve been mulling a series of posts about what online publishers can learn from online [...]

Comment on Boing Boing: Local newspaper boasts ultimate passive-aggressive paywall policy by Martin

Martin — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 11:39:54 +0000

Thanks Damon. I’m going to change this.

Comment on Boing Boing: Local newspaper boasts ultimate passive-aggressive paywall policy by Damon Kiesow

Damon Kiesow — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 11:33:21 +0000

Martin -

Despite the Boing Boing headline – it is not a newspaper. It is a news blog apparently run by one person.

Comment on Moving on: a new job by Good luck to online pioneer, Martin – EdConnect

Good luck to online pioneer, Martin – EdConnect — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 22:41:42 +0000

[...] a City University journalism alumnus, who reveals that he is leaving Emap’s Retail Week to join the Financial Times on Monday on ft.com’s interactive [...]

Comment on Moving on: a new job by Graham

Graham — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 10:21:48 +0000

Great move and well done. Would be great to catch up over a beer… Will be back at the end of November. I’ll email you.