Crossing Gaps » media http://crossinggaps.com A Digital Storytelling Firm Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:19:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 Jeff Jarvis on the future media. … http://crossinggaps.com/updates/jeff-jarvis-on-the-future-media/ http://crossinggaps.com/updates/jeff-jarvis-on-the-future-media/#comments Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:38:25 +0000 Steve Spalding http://crossinggaps.com/updates/jeff-jarvis-on-the-future-media/ Jeff Jarvis on the future of media.

]]> http://crossinggaps.com/updates/jeff-jarvis-on-the-future-media/feed/ Try replacing “newspaper” with blogs o… http://crossinggaps.com/updates/try-replacing-newspaper-with-blogs-o/ http://crossinggaps.com/updates/try-replacing-newspaper-with-blogs-o/#comments Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:55:44 +0000 Steve Spalding http://crossinggaps.com/updates/try-replacing-newspaper-with-blogs-o/ Try replacing “newspaper” with blogs or citizen journalism or anything you like really; it will be an instructive exercise in the circular nature of history, especially in media.

“If Mr. Leavitt’s study of the press and is methods is to be measured by the amount of invective he heaped upon it, he might well be awarded a diploma as its grand censor. To crystallize his sixty or seventy minutes of speaking into a few words, he seemed to regard the newspaper press as a horrible octopus which was reaching out its arms and threatening to topple over the foundation stones of civilization and liberty. He charged the press with being unscrupulous, ever ready to publish scandalous or defamatory matter provided that money, influence, or personal spite supported it. Nobody could go to bed at night with a surety of awakening in the morning with his reputation intact and unsullied, according to Mr. Leavitt.”

– New York Times, May 13th, 1890

]]> http://crossinggaps.com/updates/try-replacing-newspaper-with-blogs-o/feed/ I absolutely love the song “American Pi… http://crossinggaps.com/updates/i-absolutely-love-the-song-american-pi/ http://crossinggaps.com/updates/i-absolutely-love-the-song-american-pi/#comments Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:30:43 +0000 Steve Spalding http://crossinggaps.com/updates/i-absolutely-love-the-song-american-pi/ I absolutely love the song “American Pie” by Don McClean. I also love the meme that media is dying, which, depending on who you ask is probably the third sign of the coming apocalypse.

That being said, when I saw this video I couldn’t help but smile. I think you will too.

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