Rojo: News Pollution; Hillary Baiting; Blog Attack!
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Summary: Top Stories for the Week of May 5 - 9, 2008 Blogs have been dishing out postmortems all week on the crashed Microsoft-Yahoo deal. Now analysis has circled inward. Is there too much news about the same stuff pasted into blogs? Are we simply... Click to expand...
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Top Stories for the Week of May 5 - 9, 2008
Blogs have been dishing out postmortems all week on the crashed Microsoft-Yahoo deal. Now analysis has circled inward. Is there too much news about the same stuff pasted into blogs? Are we simply repeating ourselves? And: are we simply repeating ourselves? Scott Karp has a post at Publishing 2.0 titled "The Declining Value of Redundant News Content on the Web." Karp also has a new post at Seeking Alpha titled "The Declining Value of Redundant News Content on the Web." Right.
Karp writes that Google News "is currently tracking about 2,000 versions of [the Microsoft-Yahoo] story," many of them quite similar. In "Microhoo: A Study in Web Content Pollution" at IP Democracy, Cynthia Brumfield writes: "I couldn't agree more and I hesitate to even write this post because I don't want to add to the growing level of news noise." Broadstuff looks at which blogs get cited most on Techmeme and says: "there are simply too many A and B List blogs competing for attention with the same stuff to be sustainable, there has to be a shakeout." If you give a hoot, how do you not pollute? Online Media Cultist recommends "content aggregators and smart people networks to help individuals filter out what is the most important." Mashable as usual is ready with the latest meta-search aggregation tools that may save the world, or destroy it, here and here.
Hillary in Black and White: Hillary Clinton is staying in the primary race and tells USA Today that she has more support than Barack Obama among "hard-working Americans, white Americans..." Well,
there it is. Pam Spaulding at Pam's House Blend takes justifiable issue with implication that hard-working and white people are not part of Obama's base and says the remark "manages to top any dog-whistle race-baiting that her husband put out on the campaign trail." Andrew Sullivan at The Daily Dish writes "If a Republican said this about a black opponent, his career would be in jeopardy for racism."Michael Crowley at The New Republic blog The Stump says the potential for racial prejudice among some voters is an uncomfortable topic but that "everyone in politics and media has been having this conversation for more than a year now."
Throwing Spitballs: Sports bloggers are still howling about a recent episode of HBO's "Costas Now" show. In a live panel about sports and media, Buzz Bissinger—author (Friday Night Lights) and Pulitzer
Prize-winning journalist— came out throwing uppercuts at fellow panelist Will Leitch of Deadspin. Buzz opened with: "I think that blogs are dedicated to cruelty. They're dedicated to journalistic dishonesty." And it got worse from there. [Full video here. Warning: anti-blog crude language]. Leitch did his best to say blogs are just something different from newspapers and you don't need a journalism degree to have an opinion about the ballgame. But it got ugly.Sports bloggers fired back. Top Shelf wrote: "Buzz Bissinger is an Angry, Closed-Minded Jackass." Juiced Sports Blog posted: "Buzz Bitchinger: Why He Didn't Major in Economics." Nice Guys Finish Third was just a bit kinder in suggesting "Buzz Bissinger is Gene Simmons." Bissinger cooled down and gave The Big Lead a more level-headed take on his thoughts, apologizing for his cussin'.
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