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ABC to Test Drive Near Real-Time Fact-Checking

Shoq — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 22:27:45 +0000

Of all the great ideas Jay Rosen has had, I never really understood what made this one anything but self-evident. Fact-checking the news in real, or-near real-time, has been an obvious need for over 20 years, and the technology to do it was old school even before blogging, Twitter and Facebook. It's just that no

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New VIDEO: CNN Joins The Tea Party

Shoq — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 18:12:43 +0000

In March, CNN made stunning announcement that Erick Erickson, editor of the ultra-right Tea Party screed Redstate.com (owned by Eagle Publishing, owner of malodorous HumanEvents.com) would be a regular panelist on the new "John King's USA" program. We get the media we deserve, and I was loath to roll over for one more indignity. I

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Narrative Authority: Can Institutional Respect Be Crowd-Sourced?

Shoq — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:51:05 +0000

Who Says: Narrative Authority In a Fragmented World

Jay Rosen tweeted this seminal post by Megan Garber, articulating what the web and digital media are doing to authority memes and journalism's role in this bizarre new world.

Since the need to manage the tangled and competing taxonomic hierarchies of such a Narrative Big Brother has been

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Has the web lost your mind?

Shoq — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:59:12 +0000

In an inadequately brief, but crucially important review or what is sure to be an even more important and discussed book, Ellen Ullman, asks, "is the wisdom of the crowd, actually a lie?"

A self-confessed "humanistic softie," Jaron Lanier is fighting to wrest control of technology from the "ascendant tribe" of technologists who believe
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ShoqRadio: I’m On Nicole Sandler’s Show Tonight

Shoq — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:06:59 +0000

Flattered and confused

The always brilliant Nicole Sandler, formerly of Air America Radio, has asked me to join her for a conversation on her new show, tonight at 7:30 EST.

The audio & video streams: http://radioornot.com

Hashtag #shoqradio

CALL IN (join us): (213) 291-9410

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Has Social Media Ruined the Internet?

Shoq — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:26:16 +0000

I missed "Why this Decade Sucked," by Ed Edroso, back in December. Wish I hadn't. While it's over the top in spots, by and large, it's spot on, and reminds me of Norman Solomon's words in the mid 90s, when he quite rightly warned that the Internet would empower the status quo, while

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