Comments on: News as a verb

By: dustbury.com » Quote of the week

dustbury.com » Quote of the week — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 03:51:38 +0000

[...] Doc Searls riffs on the same Vanity Fair piece by Michael Wolff I mentioned last month, the one about the imminent Death of News. But Searls, more thoughtful than I, comes up with a worthy metaphor: Everything we invent is just a prototype for the next mistake. And that’s okay. The best we can do is leave the world a little better than we found it. All of us found it full of information only other people know. My youngest kid, at age two or less, grabbed me by the finger one day and pulled me outside. “Papa,” he said, “show me something”. Translated to the adult: “I’ve been here about six hundred days or so. You’ve been here forever. You know what all this stuff is. I don’t. Fill me in.” [...]

By: Jacqueline

Jacqueline — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:38:01 +0000

I’m glad I was of help somehow – the News Challenge is such a great project. Good luck!

By: Doc Searls

Doc Searls — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 06:50:04 +0000

Jacqueline, thanks for reminding me. I had meant to apply for a News Challenge grant, for our ProjectVRM work toward getting an easy oluntary reader/listener/viewer payment model going as a post-advertising business model for news media. So, between the time when I read your comment and now, I applied for the grant. We'll see how it goes.

By: Jacqueline

Jacqueline — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 01:55:31 +0000

I agree – the need for news will never go away. The delivery systems just change, and there’s nothing wrong with that (this site – http://www.newschallenge.org – has a lot of interesting developments in the technology of the news area)

I think that Michael Wolff looking at the circus that is TV news is a mistake, though – hasn’t that been more entertainment than actual news for years? And with the web, the whole “breaking news” thing on TV and in print has been essentially made useless (especially now that “smart phones” are becoming mainstream).

Last but not least, I love the “everything we invent is just a prototype for the next mistake.” It’s great and so true.

By: dustbury.com

dustbury.com — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:56:21 +0000

Quote of the week…

Doc Searls riffs on the same Vanity Fair piece by Michael Wolff I mentioned last month, the one about the imminent Death of News. But Searls, more thoughtful than I, comes up with a worthy metaphor: Everything we invent is……

By: Linker Barn: October 12 Friday Fishwrap

Linker Barn: October 12 Friday Fishwrap — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 05:31:03 +0000

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By: Rant of the day: What’s on the News? Why is Newser Useful? : The Last Podcast

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:22:25 +0000

[...] Doc Searls) In Vanity Fair, Michael Wolf describes the rationale behind Newser.com (a very standard news [...]