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Without aligning incentives, we can’t kill fake news or save journalism
It’s time to move past the toxic and destructive business called adtech: surveillance-based advertising. Adtech is the Agent Smith of digital advertising: a rogue programmatic approach to digital advertising that rationalizes tracking people like marked animals. Today adtech is the main business model for nearly all … Continue reading
Posted in adtech, advertising, Journalism
Tagged adtech, advertising, content, direct marketing, Journalism
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Saving High Mountain
I’ve long thought that the most consequential thing I’ve ever done was write a newspaper editorial that helped stop development atop the highest wooded hilltop overlooking the New York metro. The hill is called High Mountain, and it is … Continue reading
Posted in Geography, history, Journalism, News, Past, Personal, publishing, Technology
Tagged High Mountain, Journalism, New Jersey, Photography, Wayne
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How True Advertising Can Save Journalism From Drowning in a Sea of Content
Journalism is in a world of hurt because it has been marginalized by a new business model that requires maximizing “content” instead. That model is called adtech. We can see adtech’s effects in The New York Times’ In New Jersey, Only … Continue reading
Posted in adtech, advertising, Business, Journalism, problems, publishing, Technology
Tagged adtech, advertising, civilization, content, content generation, content producers, content production, Journalism, journals
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Toward an ethics of influence
This event is now in the past and can be seen in its entirety here. Stop now and go to TimeWellSpent.io, where @TristanHarris, the guy on the left above, has produced and gathered much wisdom about a subject most of us … Continue reading
Posted in adtech, advertising, Berkman, Blogging, Business, Events, Ideas, Life, marketing, Personal, problems
Tagged Dan Lyons, ethics, influence, Journalism, SJ Klein, time well spent, Tristan Harris
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Sports as a propaganda laboratory
The other day a friend shared this quote from Michael Choukas‘ Propaganda Comes of Age (Public Affairs Press, 1965): This is not the propagandist’s aim. For him the validity of an image must be measured not by the degree of its fidelity, … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, News, Past, Personal, Places, Politics, problems, Research
Tagged foma, Journalism, propaganda
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Write and Wrong
When Gizmodo reported on the next-generation iPhone that had come into its hands, I was as curious as the next geek about what they’d found. But I didn’t think the ends justified the means. The story begins, You are looking at … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Business, Journalism, Past, problems, Technology
Tagged Apple, Gizmodo, Journalism
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What’s wrong with this picture?
Why is Steve Jobs taller than Eric Schmidt in this picture? I’ve met both guys, and I’m sure Eric is taller than Steve. But maybe I’m wrong. I’m having trouble (must be my night for that) finding believable height information … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Business, Journalism, News
Tagged Apple, Eric Schmidt, google, Journalism, Steve Jobs
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Underground news
Three days ago Jonathan MacDonald witnessed an altercation in the London Underground at the Holborn Station, between — as Jonathan reports it — a uniformed Underground staffer an elderly man whose arm had just been released from doors that had … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Journalism, Life, News, Places
Tagged Holborn, Holborn Station, Jonathan MacDonald, Journalism, London Underground, News
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An opportunity for the AP
It helps to recognize that the Associated Press is exactly what its name denotes: an association of presses. Specifically, newspapers. Fifteen hundred of them. Needless to say, newspapers are having a hard time. (Hell, I gave them some, myself, yesterday.) … Continue reading
Posted in Berkman, Blogging, Business, Future, Ideas, infrastructure, Journalism, News, problems, VRM
Tagged 1846, Blogging, Journalism, VRM
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Journalism and Net Nativity
I don’t go to TV for Journalism any more, even though I’m sure there’s plenty left: needles scattered thorugh a haystack of channels and program schedules that have become so hard to navigate on satellite and cable systems that it’s … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Journalism, problems
Tagged "Dave Winer", "Jay Rosen", "New York Times", bloggingheads, bug catching, cnn, Deborah Tannen, debugging, EmanciPay, Journalism, Maureen Dowd, Scott Rosenberg, tv
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