Andrew Golis

• YouTube – Fact Check: More Tax Deception
  Obama camp puts a policy guy on YouTube to hit back against a McCain ad. He's specific, forceful ("in summary, this ad is a lie"), and seems confident. Has a campaign ever done policy rapid response like this?
  (tags: new.politics obama new.media youtube economics taxes advertising obesity mccain 08)
• Olympics: China deports Twitter user for livestreaming Olympics protest
  Qik and Twitter: livestreaming a protest from Tiananmen Sq gets you kicked out of the country, apparently.
  (tags: qik twitter tibet china protest new.media human.rights)
• The HuffPo Effect: Everyone Wants Their Own Online News Brand – mediabistro.com: FishbowlNY
  Why HuffPo can't be replicated by just any old media personality that comes along.
  (tags: huffpo new.media aggregation mediabistro)
• The New War Zone – The Internet
  In the conflict between Russia and Georgia, cyberwar has been a huge part of the war.
  (tags: war tech russia georgia internet)
• Ta-Nehisi Coates (August 12, 2008) – The false nobility of victimhood
  Wonderful post by Ta-Nehisi. Connecting the politics of victimhood and self-martyrdom embodied by the Clintons and drawing it up to the politics of black nationalism.

  "I know this story so well that it hurts. The need to be noble, when in fact, you're really just beaten, is heartbreaking. This is about Kwame Kilpatrick and Detroit, Marion Barry in Washington, Sharpe James in Newark. It's about Karl Rove and country clubs, 9/11, Iraq and Bush's second term. It's about the South and the Lost Cause, about fighting for the confederate flag while your whole state teeters on the brink of the third world. This is about blindness and humanity, about a life defined by score-settling and what someone did to you, as opposed to what you're going to do for yourself."

  (tags: race politics obama gender hillary atlantic.monthly ta-nehisi.coates 08)
• levjoy dot com – The Wonder That Is Global Voices
  Nicely said by Josh.
  (tags: global.voices new.media georgia russia blogging)
• Salon has Micropayment System for Bloggers with Revolution Money.
  Very cool: community members can "tip" each other with little bits of money if they like their posts.
  (tags: new.media blogging finance salon beet.tv)
• Single-copy sales of magazines fell 6.3% in first half of '08 – Poynter Online – Romenesko
  Mags aren't having much fun either.
  (tags: magazines msm finance advertising)
• SarahLacy.com: How Can Print Not Get It?
  Run away! The internet is here to kill our model!
  (tags: new.media newspaper msm)

Read his diary, posted here chronologically with only a 70 year delay.  New media being used to surface really old media.  I like it.

• What will blogs do when photos from big media disappear? – Poynter Online – Romenesko
  It's called creative commons dumbass.
  (tags: copyright photography romenesko new.media)
• New Media and Development » home
  Helpful resource. Looking forward to digging in on this.
  (tags: new.media development mobile)
• Media Nation: Paper blows pol's cover
  A politician takes on pseudonimous identities while commenting on the local paper's website. The paper outs him.

  Ethics in the age of new media.

  (tags: new.media comments identity privacy politics newspaper)
• <I>The Atlantic</I> Outsmarts Circulation Woes – mediabistro.com: FishbowlNY
  And doing well online as well.
  (tags: atlantic.monthly magazines new.media mediabistro finance)
• Bill Moyers Journal . Bill Moyers interviews Bob Herbert and Dean Baker | PBS
  Great discussion of the sad state of our economy.
  (tags: economics bill.moyers video bob.herbert dean.baker)

Mash-up culture is funny, it was always when not if someone would produce an Obama Rick Roll.  There’s kind of a monkey’s producing Shakespeare effect: get enough people out there pounding away and there are just some pieces of media that HAVE to exist.

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You have to give them credit for positive thinking.

In describing Jeff Jarvis’s “ethic of the link,” Jay Rosen makes a vital point about why newspapers flailed and largely failed online for the first ten years of the medium: they rarely produced web-native content and therefore completely missed the development of a different ethic, writing style, and media economy.

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As I’ve written before, too much media analysis still lacks this basic insight.  Print media people are bringing their content online and are baffled, shocked even, that it doesn’t succeed.  Bloggers and google repackage it, no one comments on it, people don’t click through from the homepage.

Why?  Because it’s too long, it’s in a daily rather than streaming form, it doesn’t aggregate.  They are like radio people reading a news story on television, shocked that people aren’t nearly as interested in their content as they are the people who are using on-the-scene video, quick cuts, facial expressions.

So if you write for a newspaper and want to get on the web, the solution is simple.  Do what those of us who didn’t start with years of history producing a non-web-native product did: start from scratch by forgetting everything you knew about producing daily copy, start writing for the web, and then wait five years or ten years…

Via a great post on newspaper linking at Publishing 2.0.

Ben Craw at his video aggregating best.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWX5u69hmzY]

At Andrew Sullivan’s place, a phenomenal idea:

Free advice: The Obama Camp should totally co-opt the GOP’s silly tire guage thing. They should start giving out tire gages with the Obama logo on them. They should thank them for the idea. They should promote it as a wonderful post-partisan effort to reduce our nation’s dependence on foreign oil. If John McCain’s finally on board, maybe we can get Newt to sign off as well!

They have to do this.  It would be a brilliant show of confidence, build on Obama’s wonderfully effective “they take pride in being ignorant” attack, and would force the MSM to cover how right Obama is about this argument in the first place.

Please Obama people.  If you’re out there.  Do it.

Dear dead tree media people,

Here’s what I propose.  If you stop holding all blogs accountable for some of the stupid shit that some bloggers do, I’ll let you off the hook for the crimes against the public sphere perpetrated by people who use paper.

Deal?

Andrew

Where’s Thorstein Veblen when you need him?