nettime FW: [IP] Craigslist Planning To Shake Up Journalism
Original Message Subject:Craigslist Planning To Shake Up Journalism Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 15:53:45 -0500 From: Randall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Dewayne Hendricks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=3D%7B3832A144%2D060D%2D4F3= A %2DA255%2D06F40844BC4E%7Dsiteid=3Dmktw WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - The San Francisco Web entrepreneur who's shaken the classified ad business has plans to expand into journalism, too. Speaking at an Oxford University business school forum, Craig Newmark said his news project will be introduced within three months. He made it clear his new Web site will have a bottom-up approach to news stories and presentation, with readers play the role of editors. Things do need to change, he told the audience in Oxford, England, The Guardian reported. The big issue in the U.S. is that newspapers are afraid to talk truth to power. The White House press corps don't speak the truth ... they are frightened to lose access they don't have anyway. Newmark said his news project will involve Web technology to let readers decide which news stories are the most important. At least one Web site is already working this field. Digg.com invites readers to submit stories to be posted on its Web site. Once a story receives enough (votes) from (the site's visitors) it will be promoted to the front page, the site explains.=20 -- http://htdaw.blogsource.com Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/ # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
Re: nettime Paris Burning [u]
All I can say is, as usual, hypocrisy is hypocrisy is hypocrisy. Is this the same Finkielkraut who wrote In the Name of Humanity and Defeat of the Mind? Hypocrisy never ceases to amaze. I'm sure if it was 1968, he'd be out there marching and singing songs etc etc I'd like to see him - as an experiment for example - send a job application under an assumed name. One that sounds white and another that sounds arab - who can say what the result would be, but yeah... the reason the suburbs are burning isn't about Islamic extremism - its because people see the hypocrisy at every level, every day - all the time. I lived in Paris for a year a while ago and was stopped by the police - papiers? - literally everyday. When they found out I was African American, everything was cool, but they would really hassle the Africans from the continent. It disgusted me... Anyway, I'm really disappointed that Finkielkraut, like Zizek, can't deal with the nuances of why this stuff is happening. Paul # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
