Jeff Jarvis piece rounding up the debate on creation versus aggregation and pointing out the same fusion of algorithms and human filtering is going to be necessary to do either at scale.
Because Twitter and Facebook update with such intense frequency, by the time you have caught up with one the other is full of new updates creating a perfect balance and removing the time or need for anything else
John Naughton thinks that the only online business that can rely upon advertising is search, where users want to see ads. Everywhere else users are learning to screen ads out.
Very detailed examination of the (limited) conditions under which projecting the backchannel at an event on to the frontchannel can enrich the experience.
The future of journalism is not going to be a new form of institution to replace newspapers but a patchwork of overlapping and probably smaller operations. The challenge will be to stitch those operations together so that they can perform the kind of 'accountability journalism' a democracy requires. But in the short term that kind of journalism, especially for smaller places, is going to get worse.
Arianna's response to Rupert. Riveting stuff. Also has major pop at NYT and in particular how its old media way of reporting Iran protests misled readers while its new media liveblog got it right.
