Comments on: So what is this we’ve become, anyway? http://jimvoorhies.com/index.php/?p=390 At the crossroads of Tongue in Cheek and Foot in Mouth. Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:04:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: jim http://jimvoorhies.com/index.php/?p=390&cpage=1#comment-19078 jim Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:32:41 +0000 http://jimvoorhies.com/index.php/?p=390#comment-19078 Even if it has been around 10 years, for most of that time it was emergent technology, trying to find its way on the tubes from its beginnings as online journaling to what it is becoming. But it's still evolving. What blogging is now is not what it will be, if its even still aroung in another 10 years. The "if it bleeds, it leads" mantra of local TV news is ensuring its own demise. The only people I know who watch local news are in their 80s. Watching the news is too depressing and uninteresting. TV news and local papers have lost their relevance and their place in society. At the same time, blogs won't replace them - there maybe nothing that does. And no one will care. Even if it has been around 10 years, for most of that time it was emergent technology, trying to find its way on the tubes from its beginnings as online journaling to what it is becoming. But it’s still evolving. What blogging is now is not what it will be, if its even still aroung in another 10 years.

The “if it bleeds, it leads” mantra of local TV news is ensuring its own demise. The only people I know who watch local news are in their 80s. Watching the news is too depressing and uninteresting.

TV news and local papers have lost their relevance and their place in society. At the same time, blogs won’t replace them – there maybe nothing that does. And no one will care.

]]> By: democommie http://jimvoorhies.com/index.php/?p=390&cpage=1#comment-19057 democommie Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:02:52 +0000 http://jimvoorhies.com/index.php/?p=390#comment-19057 Christian: The mainstream media is in decline because of their own failure to perform the function for which they exist. They do not inform the public in any meaningful way on most issues. It's mostly soundbites and fury, signifying a wish to generate ad revenues and phony controversies. Bloggers, by and large do not get paid and have no incentive to miss inform for profit, but only for fun. Christian:

The mainstream media is in decline because of their own failure to perform the function for which they exist. They do not inform the public in any meaningful way on most issues. It’s mostly soundbites and fury, signifying a wish to generate ad revenues and phony controversies.

Bloggers, by and large do not get paid and have no incentive to miss inform for profit, but only for fun.

]]> By: Christian http://jimvoorhies.com/index.php/?p=390&cpage=1#comment-18930 Christian Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:14:50 +0000 http://jimvoorhies.com/index.php/?p=390#comment-18930 The blog world is 10 years old, Jim. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQRLSBUNupg" rel="nofollow">Just give it to me</a>. The blog world is 10 years old, Jim. Just give it to me.

]]> By: jim http://jimvoorhies.com/index.php/?p=390&cpage=1#comment-18925 jim Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:32:24 +0000 http://jimvoorhies.com/index.php/?p=390#comment-18925 Nearly a decade, my ass, Christian. The blog world is changing conventional news media just as the Internet has changed the computer industry. One thing that hasn't changed is the need to write better. Give it a try. But it's present tense. It's currently happening and none of us, even more skilled futurists than I, have no idea how much it will change or if conventional media will remain once the silicon dust settles. Nearly a decade, my ass, Christian. The blog world is changing conventional news media just as the Internet has changed the computer industry. One thing that hasn’t changed is the need to write better. Give it a try.

But it’s present tense. It’s currently happening and none of us, even more skilled futurists than I, have no idea how much it will change or if conventional media will remain once the silicon dust settles.

]]> By: Christian http://jimvoorhies.com/index.php/?p=390&cpage=1#comment-18923 Christian Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:35:37 +0000 http://jimvoorhies.com/index.php/?p=390#comment-18923 Just break it, miss thing. Bring the noise. Be the change you want to see. Conglomerate it, Mary. Huffingtonize it. The local conglomerati needs examples of action, not another wishfull imagined manifest of what we hope to become or yet another welcome to the future that's been here now for nearly a decade. People who travel around to conference and talk about it or write "about the changes that are taking place in the older types of media" come a dime a dozen. Just break it, miss thing. Bring the noise. Be the change you want to see. Conglomerate it, Mary. Huffingtonize it. The local conglomerati needs examples of action, not another wishfull imagined manifest of what we hope to become or yet another welcome to the future that’s been here now for nearly a decade. People who travel around to conference and talk about it or write “about the changes that are taking place in the older types of media” come a dime a dozen.

]]> By: Snickering ‘at the sheer effrontery’ « Newscoma http://jimvoorhies.com/index.php/?p=390&cpage=1#comment-18915 Snickering ‘at the sheer effrontery’ « Newscoma Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:02:54 +0000 http://jimvoorhies.com/index.php/?p=390#comment-18915 [...] of all, Jim Voorhies has this: But his point is that we’re living in a monumental definition change of what is ”the press” [...] [...] of all, Jim Voorhies has this: But his point is that we’re living in a monumental definition change of what is ”the press” [...]

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