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Re: “If the news is important, it will find me”

Matt — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:52:45 -0000

In order for this to be true, people have to be immersed in networked (new) media.

We should be careful with the assumption that "young people" are immersed in new media and "old geezers" aren't.

I teach citizen journalism at a local university and I'd say less than 10% of them use these things regularly.

Blogs and microblogs are not a generational phenomenon - I think rather that they appeal to a certain personality type.

Re: Radiohead: People still want an “object”

Matt — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:02:10 -0000

I've had it with CDs. And DVDs for that matter.

What's the point?

This also speaks to what kind of people we are. Some people just like accumulating "stuff" and I'm guilty of that on occasion.

Generally, I have no mental or physical space for clutter in my life any more.

Re: Google: Why not make the cloud free?

Matt — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:56:50 -0000

Mathew - Loving the blog. I didn't even know you had it. Always enjoyed reading your stuff in the Globe, so it's nice to find this.

Re: J-school student told not to blog about class

Matt — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:14:19 -0000

Why would the teacher take the time to ask a student not to blog or Twitter *during* class. Sounds like a pile of crap / backpeddling to me.

Any J-school prof should realize that taking notes, blogging, or wiring your network, etc is a valuable skill that will be required of everyone once they graduate.

Have you written anything about Concordia University's banning of the Facebook domain?

Re: The Audacity of Free

Matt — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:30:06 -0000

Wow. That Seth Godin post is the first time I've radically disagreed with him.

I generally get your point - and I generally agree.

But to the people who make up the long tail of Craigslist a dollar is a lot of money. They're working minimum wage and that's 10 minutes of their time. There are a lot of random acts of kindness on Craigslist too. People giving away couches. You wouldn't see that in the paid classifieds of yore.

What makes the internet successful is the fact that there are no more barriers to community. Even a dollar. Yes there is a lot of noise - a lot of crap. But if you believe in the crowd, you believe the crowd will filter that out.

Your conference is a different thing. Real bricks. Real mortar. Real costs. But Seth is wrong about CL.