Monday, June 28, 2010

Post from Mike Tartaglia at CHUM.LY

/johngotts. I just thought of a great accessory for the iPhone 4. I call them iGloves. You can buy them in pairs or individuals. Hehehehehe http://chum.ly/n/1ac9d4
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  1. AnonymousJune 28, 2010 at 9:55 AM

     /johngotts
    Used my friends iphone 4 yesterday. It was super sick. But reception is still an issue. http://chum.ly/n/1acb00

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  2. A.G.June 28, 2010 at 11:01 AM

     /andrea  /mark  /marc  /anthony  /mike  /johngotts
    My father and I have had countless hours of conversation on the topic of journalism, on how we risk losing some of what was great about "old-school journalism", if you will.

    There used to be much method to the madness, a journalist, at least in this part of the world, was a very peculiar kind of person with a well-developed and unique skill set. I'm thinking of people who made a career out of journalism but who perhaps didn't just take up journalism at University..

    I'm talking people born and raised to do this job who invented modern-day journalism

    Many journalists have been afraid that citizen journalism or just plain blogging is making everyone an expert.. and the real editors, journalists, are losing readers..

    But the only major problem I see in all this is when a journalist or news-gatherer uses a Tweet as his or her source.. as their sole, their ONLY source.. there is a huge problem here.. Sources used to be secret, and they were time-tested and true, also.. your sources was as secret and powerful as "The Algorithm" is with regard to Google.. it's the secret sauce, and it's meant to create results, results, results.

    Back in the day you couldn't laze around all day and then just pick an item from a social stream and call it the day's breaking news. In Québec, we still have journalists that were also tough negotiators, one in particular was a negotiator for the police forces and the hell's angels.. and other criminal organizations. He was the trusted man, the only one the police trusted and the mobsters trusted, and he was tough.. Now he does an editorial on the evening news, and throughout the day.. but he doesn't get his news from Twitter, I'll tell you that.. he gets calls, he checks up on sources and double and triple checks.

    And that's what we're risking to lose.. the trustworthiness of journalists' sources.. the trustworthiness of the very news sources themselves.. It's true that we hold up news sources to the microscope and expect a lot from them, whether it is the LA Times, the NY Times, Time Magazine, The Economist, or the Wall Street Journal..

    We expect results, we want more than breaking news, we want reasoned analyses.. we in essence expect rocket science every time all the time. :) http://chum.ly/n/1acc74

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