Blog Profile / mathewingram.com/work
| URL : | http://www.mathewingram.com/work/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Media / New Media | |
| Posts on Regator: | 623 | |
| Posts / Week: | 2.3 | |
| Archived Since: | April 6, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
The web responds to the untimely death of hacker-activist Aaron Swartz
The open web and freedom of information in general lost one of their most passionate proponents yesterday, with the death of early Reddit staffer and Demand Progress founder Aaron Swartz, who committed suicide on Friday, according to a family member. He was facing federal charges for hacking into the JSTOR academic database and downloading millions [...]
The pros and cons of newspaper paywalls — a Storify conversation
Having a debate about the merits and/or disadvantages of newspaper paywalls is nothing new — one seems to break out whenever two or more journalists are in a room together — but not all of them involve a former Dow Jones chief executive, a former Wall Street Journal executive, a current Wall Street Journal managing [...]
Wikipedia, Instagram and real-time news
I realize that RSS feeds are kind of passé (sorry, Dave) and so some readers may have missed some of my recent posts over at GigaOM — so I have collected some of them here in case you want to catch up: “Ruining the social web: How can we avoid the Bieber effect?” — Does [...]
A slideshow of sunsets and “skypainting”
Here’s a slideshow of sunset and cloud photos I put together from shots I took at the lake this summer. I apologize in advance for the number, but there were so many amazing evenings I couldn’t resist. Best viewed full screen:
The space shuttle, the future of media and a Twitter town hall
Inspired by my friend @om — who has collected some of his recent posts on his Om.is.me blog — I thought I would do the same and put together a list of some of the things I wrote during the past week, in case anyone missed something they might be interested in. So this week, [...]
Why Do We Link in News Stories? A Discussion
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You Can’t Play a New Media Game By Old Media Rules
If there’s one aspect of the media business that has been disrupted more completely than any other, it’s the whole idea of “breaking news.” Just as television devalued the old front-page newspaper scoop, the web has turned breaking news into something that lasts a matter of minutes — or even seconds — rather than hours. [...]
Should We Be Keeping Score on Twitter? Klout Thinks So
As the race continues to find a reliable way of measuring influence in social networks and the “reputation graph,” Klout — one of the front-runners in that business, along with competitor PeerIndex — has launched an extension for Google’s Chrome browser that lets you see the Klout score of all the people you follow on [...]
It’s Facebook Vs. Twitter In the Race to Make the News Social
Facebook has disrupted or helped to re-engineer many businesses and markets, including the photo-sharing market and the social-gaming market. But one thing it hasn’t really focused on so far is the news business. Plenty of media companies use Facebook as a news-delivery platform, and many users (including Gawker founder Nick Denton, according to a recent [...]
Top Twitter Trend for 2010: No, It Wasn’t Justin Bieber
The year isn’t quite over yet, but Twitter has already come out with the top trending topics for 2010, and surprisingly enough Justin Bieber — the guy who is so popular that Twitter had to modify the way it calculates trending topics — did not take the top slot. That went to the Gulf oil [...]
In Which I Appear on CNN — Sort Of
Jeff Jarvis was on Howard Kurtz’s show on CNN today talking about WikiLeaks and the need for government transparency (which he also wrote about at Huffington Post), and said some nice things towards the end of his interview about my recent piece at GigaOM on WikiLeaks — in which I argued that WikiLeaks is effectively [...]
Reasons to Love the Internet: The Rain Dance
Maybe you’ve seen the video embedded here before, but for me the first time was today, when a friend (@rhh) re-tweeted a link from Ze Frank, and all the tweet said was “how great is this.” I am a big fan of Ze’s from way back, so I knew it would be a link to [...]
TVO’s The Agenda: The “Death of the Web”
I had the chance to be on a panel last Friday as part of TVO’s The Agenda, thanks to superstar producer and occasional blowgun-hunter Mike Miner (ask him about that last part, if you get the chance). Hosted by the reliably excellent Steve Paikin, the panel took a look at a number of recent topics, [...]
Nick Carr’s Retreat From the Internet Continues
I’ll admit it — I’ve kind of missed Nick Carr, and his dyspeptic blog Rough Type. After he started on his latest book, he went on a blogging hiatus, and I kind of missed reading his fulminations on a variety of things, most of which I instinctively disagreed with. I think he may have spent [...]
The Agenda on privacy, taped live at mesh10
There were too many highlights from mesh2010 for me to pick a single one, but among the top moments on any list was the taping of a live version of TVO’s The Agenda with the always excellent Steve Paikin. TVO producer Mike Miner and I started talking about the idea last year, because we had [...]
Something extra special coming at mesh 2010
Hey, guess what? It’s only a couple of weeks until mesh 2010 — which you still have time to get tickets for, in case you haven’t yet, although they are vanishing quickly. And here’s another reason to get some: we are going to be doing something extra special this year at mesh. No, it’s not [...]
Me on The Agenda: The iPad and the Future of Media
I spent last Friday in a windowless room with a bunch of men wearing a lot of pancake makeup, but it was a lot more fun than it sounds — I was taping an episode of TVO’s great show The Agenda with Steve Paikin, something I have been honoured to do more than once. This [...]
mesh media keynote: Chris Thorpe
If you’re interested in the future of media, you’re going to want to be at mesh 2010 on May 18 and 19 for our media keynote: Chris Thorpe. Chris comes to us from The Guardian, one of Britain’s leading newspapers, where he is the Developer Advocate in charge of the paper’s Open Platform. This puts [...]
Come On Nick, You Can Do Better Than That
Choire Sicha, former editor of Gawker and now co-founder of The Awl, points out that the Gawker offices have a large screen mounted on the wall that shows the top most-read stories on the site in terms of unique visitors, allegedly to motivate writers at the blog network (although it’s interesting to note that this [...]
Twitter Fight a Symptom of Old vs. New Media
There’s a certain sense of the Roman Coliseum to a good Twitter fight, which typically features two combatants (although others can throw in comments from the sidelines) and an invisible mass of spectators, taking in every uppercut or knife gash and cheering the participants on. Plenty of people crowded around on Friday when a Twitter [...]