Mathew's comments - Latest Comments in Journalism: Filtering, interpretation, context

Re: Journalism: Filtering, interpretation, context

rafi — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:57:36 -0000

Wow, talk about overload... Good article but this is really not written with our attention scarcity in mind.

Re: Journalism: Filtering, interpretation, context

mathewi — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:11:22 -0000

Thanks, Mark. I totally agree. And that Shirky speech was excellent.

Re: Journalism: Filtering, interpretation, context

indexmb — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:17:28 -0000

The Wire's David Simon is more concise on the topic in his talk "The Audacity of Despair" http://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/webcast_Simo...
Highly recommended. HT @hughmcguire

He says journalists have simply stopped asking 'why'.

Yes there is a filter problem -- see Shirky's excellent speech at Web2.0NYC http://web2expo.blip.tv/file/1277460/ -- but journalism doesn't have to get all academic to solve its problems. Forget the attention economy. Forget complicated filtering. Rediscover the 'why' and readers will find you.