Comments on: Why Old Media Can’t Deny New Media

By: shersteve (Steve Sherlock)

shersteve (Steve Sherlock) — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:46:35 +0000

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RT @cspenn: Great piece by @ariherzog on USAirways+Twitter. A journalist must-read. [link to post]

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By: baratunde (Baratunde Thurston)

baratunde (Baratunde Thurston) — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:45:34 +0000

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RT @cspenn: Great piece by @ariherzog on USAirways+Twitter. A journalist must-read. [link to post]

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By: cspenn (Christopher Penn)

cspenn (Christopher Penn) — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:44:32 +0000

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Great piece by @ariherzog on USAirways+Twitter. A journalist must-read. [link to post]

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By: Stacy Lukas

Stacy Lukas — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 21:46:34 +0000

Ari – Excellent post. I’ve been thinking a lot about the “old” vs. the “new” media lately and at least in my corner of the world, I do see a stark contrast that is very indicative of many of the sentiments above. And I love Danny’s analogy about trying to join the Olympic swim team before you can walk.

True story: My local “big circulation” newspaper actually paid their most popular columnist to go to Florida and attend a conference on how to blog and use new media, esp. Twitter. Frankly, this appalls me since every day print journalists are losing their jobs and here they were wasting money sending this guy to Florida to learn something (IMHO) he should have already known how to do.

When he came back he wrote a column all about this “new thing” called blogging and how “the future of news is on blogs.” I want more than anything to walk into the office of the editor-in-chief of his paper and scream, “WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN THIS PAST DECADE?!”

Said columnist is also on Twitter. He is actually one of my Facebook friends and asked me for advice on how to use it, so I told him the basics, including the obvious: “Have conversations. Don’t broadcast. If that’s all you do, nobody will listen and nobody will care.”

What does he do? Nothing but, “Check out my latest blog/column!” followed by a link.

I don’t know if there’s something in the water in the area of Michigan I live which makes journalists turn into Neanderthals with no capacity to learn or what, but I know the rest of the world is NOT like this. Or at least I thought I did, until you mentioned here that very few big “old” media outlets mentioned Twitter. When I turn on CNN, I do hear them mention Twitter and I mentally noted that they were relying on it during the recent Mumbai attacks. I think that when “old” embraces “new” media and successfully integrates like CNN does/did, everybody’s a winner. It’s when it turns into an “us” vs. “them” scenario between old and new that gets us tangled in some kind of an unnecessary competition that divides generations and even eliminates jobs. We need to make sure that old media “gets” new media, not expresses disdain nor jumps head first into a pool of sharks.

Stacy Lukas´s last blog post..Today’s word, boys and girls, is “boundaries”

By: Lito

Lito — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 15:11:20 +0000

Very informative post about the advantages of micro blogging like twitter. An also the quote about using big words just to look smart. As Leonardo da Vinci says : Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication

By: LitoMontala (Lito Montala)

LitoMontala (Lito Montala) — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 15:08:25 +0000

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Informative blog [link to post]

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By: stetoscope

stetoscope — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 14:32:12 +0000

Hi Ari, I think twitter is now a major internet service. Every major internet services had "their" moment. Remember youtube was the best publisher of images during the Tsunami in south east asia. I interviewed a manager of the wikipedia foundation 6 months ago and she told me that they understood they were becoming really big with the death of the pope John-Paul II because they had the best update in formation about his life... I think twitter proved they were becoming a major media with the terrorist attach in Bombay. Who's next? stetoscope´s last blog post..In 2009, we will be editors!