Links for 2009-03-16
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Telegraph review of recently published Eclipse biography by Nicholas Clee makes the work sound as though it's a bit of modern Trollope, centered around a great horse, who was, even towards the end of his life, hard used: "In the end, even the mighty Eclipse became what can only be described as shagged out, and in the declining months of his 24-year-life was conveyed from mare to mare in what was almost certainly the first ever horsebox."
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Writers, editors, social media; what might be lost.
Links for 2009-03-15
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Includes video links, connections, pedigree, also-ran information.
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"That is what real revolutions are like. The old stuff gets broken faster than the new stuff is put in its place." Clay Shirky cuts through the noise about saving newspapers, puts the focus on saving journalism.
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"So this is what the old-growth forests tell us: there is going to be more content, not less; more information, more analysis, more precision, a wider range of niches covered." Complements Shirky's "Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable."
Links for 2009-03-14
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“I think the over-and-under on Larry’s retirement is 90 days,” says owner Rick Porter.
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Sulzberger Jr. makes two pragmatic points: Strategy must be rooted in the premise that journalism is “OF the Internet, not merely ON it,” and that no one business model will work for all newspapers, publishers.
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