The Media Equation: Skipping Merrily Along as Others Take the Heat
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Robert D. Novak, the writer who first named a C.I.A. spy has remained on the sidelines of a game he started.
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It's not very often that you see something new in News.  News is not exactly new technology, but when personal computers came along, and then widespread networking, it created a whole new playing field for news, that has shaken things up for most of my life. Change comes in fits at starts. First there was the web, then RSS, and now I think we're on the cusp of another bit of change. If you want to see what I think it looks like, check out the home page of nytimesriver.com. But that's not the end of the story. A flat completely chronologic view of news probably isn't enough. And earlier this month at a meeting in NY, two engineers at the NY Times set me off in a new direction, with a very simple bit of advice. They told me to look in the HTML source code of their stories. When I did I saw they had applied a taxonomy to their news flow, and this opened the door to what I would like to show you today -- an outline view of the news.  http://nytimesriver.com/outline/  I believe it's fairly self-explanatory.  The topics are arranged in order of frequency in today's news.  In a previous rendering, the stories were shown in a histogram, but this view I think is much better. You can still see how many pieces relate to the indicated topic, but by clicking on the plus next to each topic, you can actually see the headlines and descriptions, and if you want more you can click through to the full stories. (Initially, the outline was sorted by frequency, with the most frequently occurring keyword appearing first. I changed it, based on feedback, to be alphabetic.) Now, there's still more to do, I showed this to a number of people during the weekend and got some excellent clues on ideas to pursue next, and I will do that. Further, in the process of exploring this, I've been shown the work of other developers who discovered the keywords on their own, and one in particular is very interesting. I'm hoping that these projects will come public so I can show them to you and tell you what I think they mean. This is what I live for, professionally -- the sense of being somewhere with great unexplored potential, a virgin landscape of the intellect. I'm never happier than when I get to play in such a place.  Om Malik: A new way to view news. Please comment on the screen shot page.
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A PBS documentary makes the case that Americans have tuned out marketers pitching everything from cars to candidates. The result: even more crass attempts to get through, and a fragmentation of American society. By Jason Silverman.
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Media & professional: Â· Trust demands emphasis on onscreen innovationÂ· 'Disenfranchised' audiences cause concern
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The human beings behind the business headlines can sometimes become lost.
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A little less conversation and a little more action
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Wired's How To Wiki discusses the finer points speaking in public -- without making a fool of yourself.
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The Internet has opened the floodgates of self-expression. What happens next?
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Public chatter on mobile phones is annoying--when other people use them. But how do we tackle the problem?
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I put mainstream media in the same league with comic books. The goal of the media is to sell. When it comes to any message coming from the media, caveat emptor.
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Media & professional: Last week an extraordinary editorial in the New York Times demonstrated the limits of the press in a diffuse media age. Paul Harris reports.
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A US study compares the news agenda of the mainstream media with that of three user-driven sources.
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In the shrinking world of 24-hour global  news, every kidnapping and atrocity can present a painful  ethical dilemma for the media -- does depicting these horrors  turn them into tools of the perpetrators?
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Seeking like-minded political thought, or folks to argue with? Look no further.
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Recent network apologies suggest a climate of cowardice inside the major media companies.
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By RANDY MYERS  In the no-holds-barred blogosphere, every voice can be raised. But not everyone cares to listen.  Some visit blogs for updates on political chicanery, others to hear about a hot restaurant, movie, celebrity or technogadget.
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Imagining hundreds of outage-related micro-dramas unfolding simultaneously.