I teach journalism at NYU, write the blog PressThink, direct NewAssignment.Net, and try to grok new media. I don't do lifecasting but mindcasting on Twitter.
"The sources spoke on the condition of anonymity because the Times always rolls over for them in stories like these.” http://blogs.reuters.com/jacksha...
"But 20 years in to the ad-supported web, we can see that our current model is bad, broken and corrosive." http://www.theatlantic.com/technol... Brilliant.
HuffPost Live now I'm talking about the New York Times deciding to use the word "torture" for acts of torture. Watch: http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r...
Agreed. FB could have applied work towards better user filtering tools... But they've ended up with a business model that depends on the artificial scarcity from their auto-filtering algorithm: "pay us to reach everyone following you." And worse, people and brands rationally try to game the algorithm by posting low-quality clickbait. There's a lot less clickbait on Twitter and Tumblr IMO and I think that's because neither has an algorithmic filter system.
- Andrew C (✔)