My Clips- Cause of plane crash west of Bozeman under investigation, pilot pronounced dead at scene August 31, 2010
- The man who wanted train horns August 16, 2010
- Money well spent? August 15, 2010
- Local telecom company gets $64 million to bring high-speed Internet to rural Gallatin County August 5, 2010
- Montana Opticom receives $64 million in stimulus money for rural broadband August 4, 2010
- AT&T to replace Alltel in Montana within a year June 25, 2010
- Bozeman twin looks to scale namesake peak: K2 June 21, 2010
- High water claims Amsterdam Road bridge June 12, 2010
- Trio of veteran Belgrade teachers retiring June 7, 2010
- MSU robot digger wins NASA competition May 29, 2010
Tag Archives: news
Google as the news industry’s middle man
In the grand scheme of things, the Internet was supposed to directly connect people — buyers and sellers, readers and writers, etc. — and eliminate the middle man. In reality, the middle man is more important than ever, and the biggest middle man of them all is Google, argues Nicholas Carr.
Posted in New Media Also tagged google, Google News, journalism, Matthew Ingram, middle man, New Media, Nicholas Carr, Nieman Journalism Lab, Rough Type, scarcity, syndication Comments closed
A frightening idea: Twitter becomes the News System of the World
Over the weekend, Dave Winer posted his concerns (it “scares the bejesus” out of him) about Twitter and the apparent inertia that is carrying the microblogging service toward becoming the “News System of the World.” His concerns are two: It’s a tech-world thing, and that sector, he says, doesn’t take criticism well. It’s a company, which means it [...]
Posted in New Media, Social Networking Also tagged Dave Winer, journalism, New Media, Social Networking, twitter Comments closed
Comments on Steven Berlin Johnson’s SXSW talk about news ecology
Steven Berlin Johnson spoke Friday at the SXSW conference on “Old Growth Media and the Future of News,” a speech that has drawn a lot of blog attention so far. A copy of the speech is available on Johnson’s site. I’m not going to do anything in the way of deep analysis, but I do [...]
Posted in New Media, Print Culture Also tagged journalism, New Media, Steven Berlin Johnson, SXSW Comments closed
Thoughts on “Network”
I watched the movie “Network” for the first time last night, and I’m convinced that there’s something we can learn from the film about the modern state of the media.
Posted in Digitalia, New Media, Print Culture Also tagged network, New Media, newspapers Comments closed
Michael Becker has been blogging about academia, digital culture and journalism since 2005. He is the Web editor of the
Dan Gilmore’s ideas for running a news organization