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проститутки — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:16:41 -0000

Sorry, I am not from the USA, perhaps it means I don't have the background to understand completely, but from what you say I understand that creating a network of relationships spares you the pain of seeking your own sources of information (news or knowledge, i think the distinction is irrelevant). This tends to promote a passive way of getting informed, and is therefore very dangerous : what I get from my network is not necessarily traceable, nor true (factually... as far as this word as any meaning). In that way of behaving towards information, I delegate the checking for relevance to others, who delegate it to others, who... This means I am even more vulnerable to gossips, hoaxes, or simply mistakes or misunderstood pieces of information. It is the dream of advertisers and public relation people.

Saying if info is important it'll find me is just like saying when i'm really hungry somebody will appear and give me a sandwich. It can be true if you have some good friends "watching your back" prostitutka, but if it does not happen in time it is deadly, and it is not reliable.

I take it just as a mistake in the sense of the implication. Passing to your network information that you think is important does not mean that you will receive the important information when you need it (the importance being relative to each node of the network). Believing so is just letting your network decide on what sould be important to you. This makes you vulnerable to manipulation.

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проститутки — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:13:09 -0000

actually these homes wont find they people

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проститутки — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:11:52 -0000

. I think that sums up, in ten simple words, what has happened to the way that many people

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проститутки — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:09:31 -0000

Think about that for a second — or longer, if necessary. I think that sums up, in ten simple words, what has happened to the way that many people (and not just young people, but those who use RSS readers and blogs and social networks as well) consume the news (Mark Cuban seems to think so too). Not only is there just so much of it out there that it’s virtually impossible to consume it all, but the very fact that someone you know — or trust — has passed on or blogged or Twittered or posted a link makes it more likely that you will read it.

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adasport — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:39:22 -0000

What is happening is that it's occurring a lot more, and a lot faster.

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Isis Duo — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 13:03:47 -0000

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wesleyverhoeve (Wesley Verhoev — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:59:07 -0000

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@rafikam true, i sometimes forget what bubble i am in, even just as a new yorker

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rafikam (Rafi Kam) — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:01:09 -0000

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@wesleyverhoeve thats us though. "if the news is important, it will find me" may be more common. hell, i can relate too [link to post]

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The internet is shaping and evolving so fast, but people take a long time to change their ways.

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Jason Preston — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:58:08 -0000

Absolutely true Mathew.

I've treated news as an "it will find me" enterprise for several years now, and while I'm sure I'm less informed than those who really do put the time in to read several newspapers every day, I also seem to get along just fine.

I think that newspapers, along with all other content-based business, are going to need to learn to rely on and enable the community filter to pass their content around. I wrote a post the other day about how the New York Times should take all their really cool interactive graphics and make them embeddable widgets the way youtube made video embeddable.

It's a little sad, because I think there's real value in having an editorial board come together at 5pm and decide what the public most needs to know (putting a limiter, essentially, on the public's sweet tooth for celebrity or sports news).

But the fact of the matter is that most people don't WANT those editors to be their filter anymore, and the tools are available for people to do otherwise. So adapt to that system, or lose out.

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mathewi — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:20:02 -0000

Thanks for the comment, Kevin -- that's a good way of putting it.

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

Guest — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:15:39 -0000

I'm a 19 year old, highly connected college kid and I would change that to:

If news is relevant, it may find me.

The important stuff, I have to seek out.

For example, just today a friend read me a funny passage from CNN.com about couples getting even with each other. It was not important, but it found me.

I still have to actively seek (via RSS subscriptions) what I know is important - political/economic news.

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mathewi — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:59:02 -0000

You might be right, Matt -- but I think the principle extends to text
messaging, IM and Facebook. And at least judging by my own research
using my teenaged daughters, that is how they get a lot of their news.

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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.

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mathewi — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:52:02 -0000

As I said on your post, I have to disagree with you, Joe.

Yes, the echo chamber is a real problem, and it's true that people are
often distracted by frivolous "news," but I still think the value of
social networking overcomes that. The friends I rely on to bring me
great links or bring things to my attention are (like me) interested
in a broad and diverse range of things, both deep and shallow, things
that I may not pay attention to -- and I like to think I serve the
same function for others in different ways.

That's what I mean by news finding me.

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JoeDuck — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:40:43 -0000

Matt after reflecting on this idea it really riled me. Online news via social networking is closer to just extending the wasteland than it is to news nirvana.
http://www.webguild.org/200...

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mathewi — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:56:02 -0000

Thanks for the comment, Brian. I hope Mark (who is Canadian, by the
way) keeps that in mind now that he's in charge of NBC News' digital
operations.

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BrianReich — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:48:41 -0000

Tremendously important concept - that if the news is important, it will find me. I had this same quote in my book, Media Rules! -- I was talking to Mark Lukasciewicz from NBC News about a focus group that he did with young women regarding Nightly News.

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mathewi — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:56:49 -0000

I agree, Shafqat.

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shafqat — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:29:36 -0000

I think trust and credibility are two criterion that we had to take for granted before we had the distribution platform that we enjoy with the internet today. Now, news is filtered through by people we trust directly, or in the case of social news sites, by a community we can trust. While it doesn't always work, more often than not, we can get relevant news we trust, and very quickly. Unless traditional news organisations figure out a way to do the same, they will struggle.

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mathewi — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:19:04 -0000

I think they would likely be the same. But how does that contradict
what I described? I'm not saying that newspapers are going to be
obsolete -- just that the way people find the news is changing.

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JM — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:09:12 -0000

On Sept. 11, 2001, the news websites were jammed all day. At my office in downtown Toronto, we would call out to each other if someone actually got onto a news site, and people would gather around that monitor for information about the World Trade Center attacks. The next day I noticed that the corner newspaper boxes were ALL emptied (sold out) by midday. Would these things not be the case if it happened now? In five years?