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Link: Meet Jake Adelstein, a Jewish reporter who thinks like a Japanese gangster – Boing Boing

Meet Jake Adelstein, a Jewish reporter who thinks like a Japanese gangster – Boing Boing I’ve never beaten the kneecap of a source until it broke. And I thought I was stressed.
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A whole lot of good

Summary: Attention to product quality that goes unnoticed and unappreciated by your customer will consume resources that could be put to better use. Source: A Harvard Business Review article from the May 2009 issue (p. 68 is relevant to this post) examining six mistakes companies make in managing capital. There’s a pay wall since the [...]
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The $37.85 billion-dollar question

As newspapers hunt for new revenues, what exactly would they be selling to their customers if they started charging for their online information? Or if I had an article in my pocket about a subject of my choosing, written in a way that I prefer, and I hinted at the content with nothing more than a [...]
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It’s not the goal; it’s the experience achieved in pursuing it

Isn’t that just another way to say, “It’s not the destination; it’s the journey”? Or, “The means are the end”? Sure. But like any idea experienced firsthand, it feels new when it becomes real in your life. This one hit me while discussing photography with a practitioner of the trade from Hong Kong who was visiting [...]
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Reading: ‘The Photographer’ | Guibert, Lefèvre, Lemercier

What: A mission to Afghanistan by a team of doctors and a photographer is captured beautifully, tangibly and memorably with a mixture of first-person journaling, documentary photographs, delicate layout and gentle drawings. Recommendation: Buy it and join a humanitarian adventure inside a little understood country. Thirty dollars, what I paid at Forbidden Planet in New York, [...]
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Article in The Albuquerque Tribune: N.M. online journalists, bloggers predict how news will morph on the Web

When 17-year-old University of New Mexico freshman John Perry wants news about Albuquerque, he doesn’t pick up a paper. Instead, he visits four Web sites, one of which is run by volunteers, employs no journalists and isn’t trying to be a news organization. It’s called Duke City Fix , and even though Perry enjoys the group [...]
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The ways people use information / journalistic services that can be sold around them

I. Social: You are what you know and remember, and what others know and remember about you. Forming groups of like interest / coordinate connections Being in the know / personal topic guidance Creating self-identity / ascribe values to information choices Forming opinions / critiquing service Sharing information (conversation, e-mail, clippings, recordings, etc.) to [...]
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Article in The Albuquerque Tribune: N.M. online journalists, bloggers predict how news will morph on the Web

When 17-year-old University of New Mexico freshman John Perry wants news about Albuquerque, he doesn’t pick up a paper. Instead, he visits four Web sites, one of which is run by volunteers, employs no journalists and isn’t trying to be a news organization. It’s called Duke City Fix , and even though Perry enjoys the group [...]
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3 changes in information experience micro-culture

Information experience micro-culture is my somewhat academic attempt to create a term encapsulating the rituals, behaviors, expectations and experiences involving humans and our interactions with information, which includes the concept of story, one way of many (and one of my favorite ways) to organize data. Why this is important: To make long-term, effective decisions about serving [...]
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Every story should be a Web site, and a Web site should be a network hub

To enhance your story’s online ferocity, build it as a standalone, interactive network hub for the topic it broaches, and make it easily embedded in other Web sites. Building a network hub means you provide content filtering services in addition to your own researching and reporting: Provide well-described links to other news, opinion and information sources relevant [...]
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