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Comment on A Newsstand for the Tablet that might work by This Week in Review: Google’s new features, what to do with the iPad, and Facebook’s rise as a news reader | Mark Coddington

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:51:13 +0000

[...] Elmer-DeWitt says that wouldn’t work, and Zeff gives a rebuttal. Publish2’s Ryan Sholin has an idea for a newsstand app for the iPad, and Frederic Filloux at The Monday Note has a great picture of [...]

Comment on Epistemology and sources by Ryan Sholin

Ryan Sholin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:02:06 +0000

@Anna — Apologies, the link is there, but my styling of links in comment threads is remarkably subtle. I’ll change that.

Comment on Epistemology and sources by Anna Haynes

Anna Haynes — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:14:13 +0000

“If only they’d use them…” above is a link, BTW (the blog stylesheet fails to show this, on Firefox, for me at least)

Comment on Epistemology and sources by Anna Haynes

Anna Haynes — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:13:11 +0000

“If you give journalists tools to help them spot anomalies in the system of the news, it gets easier to discern what’s true.”
If only they’d use them…

Comment on Epistemology and sources by Paul Wehage

Paul Wehage — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:54:05 +0000

@Ryan : You might try contacting some of the people involved and verifying the order of events. Emails can start the process…but most journalists will probably want to talk to somebody on the phone at some point.

You’ve got a name and website, in my case…That’s better than talking to a bunch of Wikipedia usernames. If you’re looking for an introduction to Tarantino, then why don’t you just ask?

Comment on A Newsstand for the Tablet that might work by This Week in Review: Google’s new features, what to do with the iPad, and Facebook’s rise as a news reader » Nieman Journalism Lab

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:02:30 +0000

Comment on About that resolution by Theory: It’s the reader, not the publishing tool

Theory: It’s the reader, not the publishing tool — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:54:29 +0000

[...] to this, I’m hoping to take Ryan Sholin’s lead and write more on my original home space. It’s a muscle I think I need to exercise. I’m [...]

Comment on Epistemology and sources by Ryan Sholin

Ryan Sholin — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:53:55 +0000

Can't possibly not notice that the guy who called up Jurgen Habermas on the phone is the same guy who built the Paywall Game we all played at NiemanLab a couple weeks ago.

Comment on Epistemology and sources by Digidave

Digidave — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:40:45 +0000

I got duped by Habermas too.

http://digidave.posterous.com/tweets-from-jabermas

Alas…. I wished it were true.

Comment on Epistemology and sources by Anca

Anca — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:59:59 +0000

If the media can be so easily duped by Jason Calcanis and the like through Twitter, what other stuff (of a more sinister nature) is unresearched but reported as truth?

I know that this is a site for reporters, but there should be some equivalent morals for readers, also…

Something like:

If the site you are looking at has more screen real estate devoted to ads than stories, or if you can’t tell the difference, consider its motivation in reporting controversial stuff just to get page views.

If the objective of the author or the venue is to make money from ads, then it doesn’t matter if the story is true or not – all that matters is that people talk about it. In fact, a story that’s not true can have more value if it generates controversy (and ad views) than a true but un-controversial story.