Journalism
While the waters of digital journalism have never been calm, right now we're passing through a storm that will sink some publications ā but be the making of others. Here's what's causing that tempest.
Nic Newman
The 2019 edition of the Journalism, Media and Technology Trends and Predictions report finds an industry rethinking many of its assumptions about the way digital operates.
metrics
Itās Time to End āTrendingā [https://medium.com/new-york-magazine/its-time-to-end-trending-28f59e415832]: > The first problem with ātrendingā is that it selects and highlights content with no eye toward accuracy, or quality. Automated trending systems are not equipped to make judgments; they can determine if things are being shared, but they
Blogs
Oh, happy day. Those of us in the online journalism development business get an annual present a little later than Christmas. January is when Nic Newmanās annual Journalism, Media, and Technology Trends and Predictions report hits. Todayās the day. I havenāt had the time to dive into
futurology
The 10th LeWeb kicks off with LoĆÆcās view of the futureā¦ One of the trends LoĆÆc thinks important is meditation! Mindfulness is important, he suggests, taking control of what you want to do. Communities remain important ā and creating physical places for them matters. Digital detoxing is happening because tech
Are people rejecting the idea of a single online identity mediated by a large online entity? Stowe Boyd thinks so [http://stoweboyd.com/post/67357217833/facebook-still-dominant-strives-to-keep-cachet] : > The Benthamite underpinnings of Facebook are becoming unpopular. Young people in particular donāt want their teachers, parents, employers, and even all their
snapchat
Mathew Ingram responds to Farhad Manjoo on how telling teenagersā use of tech is [http://gigaom.com/2013/11/18/why-the-youth-market-matters-for-snapchat-and-facebook-despite-what-the-wsj-thinks/] : > [ā¦] teens and twenty-somethings are good predictors of technologyās future, even if the services or apps or hardware they prefer at a specific point in time donāt
tech adoption
Do we put too much faith in the idea that teenagers are a good predictor of technology trends [http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303559504579202623459037550?mod=WSJ_hp_EditorsPicks] ? > Yet the vast majority of your most-used things werenāt initially popular among teens. The iPhone, the iPad, the iPod,
advertising
Iām such a sucker for these things: They tell a pretty compelling story, though, donāt they?