fix journalism a conversation about journalism’s future

Google operates, at this point in time, as if the Web is the be-all-end-all of communication. If the Web disappeared Google would die. Consider this more carefully. Google’s entire operation is Web based. News, however, is cross-platform: TV, radio, Web, paper. If the Web died, news would survive.

That’s an important distinction. Google is not inventing new forms of communications, they are innovating current forms of communication. But sadly, news is neither inventing nor innovating. [...]

Donica wrote in the previous entry: “we now measure clicks and know with certainty that what we thought people were interested in is rarely supported by the evidence.” I would say the measure of clicks is widely useless in measuring reader salience for a few reasons (in some cases). For one, a lot of important issues proliferate [...]

At my lunch with the developer yesterday, he said he wants to make a news site that has two home pages. One is like google’s home page but only for the s ite so people who drilldown can do so with no interruptions. And a My Homepage for people who like to browse. Ingenius.