Back in the excellent philosophy class I took in high school (Hi Mr. Lutness!), epistemology was simply explained as How You Know What You Know.
And different philosophers said you know what you know for different reasons. George Berkeley, for example, had this whole “seeing is believing” thing, for example. If he didn’t perceive it with [...]
All about Media
Epistemology and sources
February 2, 2010
A Newsstand for the Tablet that might work
January 29, 2010
“Newsstand” by triin on Flickr.
Mario Garcia probably believes the lifespan (halflife?) of print newspapers will stretch out ever so slightly longer than I believe, but I’m constantly inspired by his original thought about the problems associated with sustaining any version of the existing structure of journalism, assuming for the moment that it’s a good idea.
And [...]
What I would fund: An imaginary challenge for news business models
December 16, 2009
Last night, I was browsing this year’s public Knight News Challenge entries ahead of the midnight deadline to enter, and I caught myself thinking about what the project doesn’t fund when it comes to supporting journalism.
And the answer appears to be business models.
My friends at the Foundation might dispute this, or maybe not, but rather [...]
The diaspora of information
October 13, 2009
Given: Dan Gillmor famously stated (and I’m paraphrasing from memory): “My readers know more than I do.”
I like to take it an order of magnitude up into the branches of the tree, along these lines: “The diaspora of information (having been set free by the Web, mostly) knows infinitely more than I do.”
So here are [...]
ONA09 debrief and the swagger
October 6, 2009
Well, it’s been a pretty awesome week.
I spent most of last Thursday through Sunday at the 2009 Online News Association conference in San Francisco, and if you follow me on Twitter or spotted a short post on my blog over the weekend, you know that Publish2, my current employer, was honored with a rather pleasant [...]