@sarahlane Sorry…I was frustrated with your way and reason for the negative review of the EVO on TWIT…I should have been more polite. in reply to sarahlane#
First night home for harvest. Trading in my keyboard and mouse for wrenches and sockets for a month of wheat-cutting. #
PrivacyDefender Sets Facebook Privacy Settings in Two Clicks [Privacy] http://is.gd/cFmEm#
Android "Intents" introduced in Froyo look awesome! Loving the digs at Apple and their head-fake towards real notifications. #
Android 2.2 Froyo to have tethering and portable hotspot capabilities. #
Android hotspot wifi demo: "Now, we'll go to another device that doesn't have connectivity – how about that iPad?" lol #
Javascript speedtest on Froyo's browser just crushed the iPad in a live demo. #
Froyo to support instantaneous, over-the-air application installation from a desktop browser. #
Niiiice. Android 2.2 Froyo to support wireless real-time music streaming from users' complete iTunes/Windows music catalog. #
@jdschultz Haven't said anything about release schedule, but now that most all phones are up to 2.1, I'm guessing most phones will get it. in reply to jdschultz#
Google TV demo crashing pretty hard: Google TV + wired keyboard FTW. #
Million dollar question: Will Google TV require hardware or can it be installed in an existing media center PC? #
Google TV to be Android-powered and support existing Android Market applications. #
@dn0t How will Google TV's support of the existing Android Market applications affect the Boxee app development landscape? #
YouTube Lean Back announced – a remote-control based version of YouTube that looks a lot like Google Play. #
@dN0t Agreed – everything else makes it looks like a Windows Media Center with better web integration, but the app support is impressive. in reply to dN0t#
Google TV implements media key functionality – biggest problem with Boxee is that play/pause/stop buttons don't always work correctly. #
I want Google TV, but not if it means I have to have a Sony device in my living room. Glad Logitech offers an alternative. #
Google CEO about as wrong as possible when he says "Flash is used by 100% of the web" – idiot. #
Watching Men Who Stare at Goats. Heard good things about it. #
@jdschultz @overcoffeemedia Pandora doesn't have good music, and the last.fm desktop client is amazing. Pandora also lacks scrobbling. in reply to jdschultz#
@dpoe I know. Polling friends now to see if anyone wants to go with us. in reply to dpoe#
@OverCoffeeMedia I guess I haven't tried the last.fm client on Windows. It runs like a champ on Linux, Android and iPhone. in reply to OverCoffeeMedia#
My friend Carl Carter, over at overcoffeemedia.com, wrote yesterday that citizen journalism is a myth. Writing correctly that journalism is hard work, he points out the expense and overhead inherent to the filtering that permeates modern professional journalism. This filtration, he and others reason, is the reason consumers prefer to source their news from professional entities.
I think we must distinguish between the raw news and the editorializing that has woven itself into the way many modern news organizations distribute their news. I think it is actually the later that consumers prefer to acquire from the pros. The raw news is provided to us in a barrage of disparate sources throughout the day. Whether we get the headlines from Twitter or scanning aggregators like Google News or social news sources like Digg, we already know what happened.
When we get home at the end of the day, we don’t want to hear the same headlines about which we already know. We want to know why it happened and how it may affect us. The reason we turn to the professional journalists is for the back story.
Unfortunately, this trend of wanting not the facts but to know what the facts mean has relegated the truly professional journalists to the margin. Mainstream consumers are turning instead to organizations who will slant news depending on their preferred bias. CNN is experiencing very poor ratings because they are trying to be professional journalists. They’re getting crushed by Fox News – and have actually fallen behind MSNBC in primetime – because they won’t filter their content to cater to one side or the other. Whether Fox News is a source of journalism (it isn’t) or really just a lifestyle channel promoting a conservative ideal is another discussion.
True citizen journalism may be a myth, but for those of us connected enough to hear about most events as they happen, professional journalism needs to provide us with the why and not so much the what.
