Organized Individualists: January 2013

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Organized Individualists

Ten, no, Twelve Causalities of Facebook

1.24.2013 by Kevin Creighton

Mashable lists the first ten, the other two are:

Classmates.com: Why should I pay to keep in touch with my school chums when I can do it for free?

Link Registries: Digg, Reddit, etc. I'm more interested in what my friends find interesting than somebody who I've never heard of.

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Not media bias, so much as media stupidity

1.22.2013 by Kevin Creighton

A revealing yet damning journey into the mind of traditional media, and where it has gone so wrong.

"In particular, local journalism's occupational self-image, its vision of itself as an autonomous workforce conducting original reporting on behalf of a unitary public, blocked the kind of cross-institutional collaboration that might have helped journalism thrive in an era of fractured communication."

Le presse, c'est moi.

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