Comments on: Stop the presses!! http://brendanwatson.net/blog/?p=58 Multimedia journalist, mass communication scholar, student and ecologist. Wed, 26 Nov 2008 04:17:22 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Chuck Peters on API » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism http://brendanwatson.net/blog/?p=58&cpage=1#comment-44 Chuck Peters on API » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism Mon, 24 Nov 2008 02:41:37 +0000 http://brendanwatson.net/blog/?p=58#comment-44 [...] I do believe that Brendan raises a key point at http://brendanwatson.net/blog/?p=58 [...] [...] I do believe that Brendan raises a key point at http://brendanwatson.net/blog/?p=58 [...]

]]> By: Chuck Peters http://brendanwatson.net/blog/?p=58&cpage=1#comment-43 Chuck Peters Sun, 23 Nov 2008 14:57:20 +0000 http://brendanwatson.net/blog/?p=58#comment-43 Brendan - Thank you for your insightful comments on what I believe is the core issue as we reinvent ourselves. As I read pieces like the Media Management Center's Six Competencies report, I reflect that all of these efforts must be directed toward a system which will allow us to answer affirmatively to, as you say "Do they communicate meaningful information, or are they simply acting to add to the noise." The Six Competencies report is referenced by Vickey Williams at http://www.readership.org/blog2/2008/11/lets-hope-50-ceos-seek-more-than-one.html Chuck Brendan -

Thank you for your insightful comments on what I believe is the core issue as we reinvent ourselves.

As I read pieces like the Media Management Center’s Six Competencies report, I reflect that all of these efforts must be directed toward a system which will allow us to answer affirmatively to, as you say “Do they communicate meaningful information, or are they simply acting to add to the noise.” The Six Competencies report is referenced by Vickey Williams at http://www.readership.org/blog2/2008/11/lets-hope-50-ceos-seek-more-than-one.html

Chuck

]]> By: Overload! at Smudged Ink | By Brendan R. Watson http://brendanwatson.net/blog/?p=58&cpage=1#comment-37 Overload! at Smudged Ink | By Brendan R. Watson Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:14:39 +0000 http://brendanwatson.net/blog/?p=58#comment-37 [...] The paradox is that CJR writes what could have been a good, thoughtful article about information overload. But it dithers along with such meaningless statements as “The information age’s effect on news production and consumption has been profound.” I mean really? You don’t see the paradox in writing seven, very loosely edited pages about information overload? This is the exact problem with how the news industry treats this topic. It’s not that they don’t know it exists. Surely an AP editor living in the bustle of New York already knew people are overwhelmed (though there is some magic that occurs when you pay someone untold sums to tell you what you already knew). But they’re making all the wrong decisions about how to help their readers coupe. News organizations need to start producing less meaningless information and help news consumers aggregate, summarize and make meaningful connections among existing information. [...] [...] The paradox is that CJR writes what could have been a good, thoughtful article about information overload. But it dithers along with such meaningless statements as “The information age’s effect on news production and consumption has been profound.” I mean really? You don’t see the paradox in writing seven, very loosely edited pages about information overload? This is the exact problem with how the news industry treats this topic. It’s not that they don’t know it exists. Surely an AP editor living in the bustle of New York already knew people are overwhelmed (though there is some magic that occurs when you pay someone untold sums to tell you what you already knew). But they’re making all the wrong decisions about how to help their readers coupe. News organizations need to start producing less meaningless information and help news consumers aggregate, summarize and make meaningful connections among existing information. [...]

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