Comments on: newspapers vs. blogs: I think we’re catching up http://cultureby.com/2004/12/newspapers_vs_b.html This Blog Sits At the Intersection of Anthropology and Economics Thu, 17 May 2012 21:10:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Liz http://cultureby.com/2004/12/newspapers_vs_b.html/comment-page-1#comment-6895 Liz Tue, 28 Dec 2004 01:33:08 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=1052#comment-6895 Responding to a tangent: I compose most posts (and not a few responses or comments) in a text editor (BBEdit) and then paste. Saves that annoying loss problem. BTW, I wish you and yours peace joy & increase for the coming year. Responding to a tangent: I compose most posts (and not a few responses or comments) in a text editor (BBEdit) and then paste. Saves that annoying loss problem.

BTW, I wish you and yours peace joy & increase for the coming year.

]]> By: Grant http://cultureby.com/2004/12/newspapers_vs_b.html/comment-page-1#comment-6894 Grant Thu, 23 Dec 2004 09:31:22 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=1052#comment-6894 AH, Ginna, and Jim, my feelings exactly. Thank you, Grant Virginia, I didnt sent her an email, but a phone message. And you tell me, is there a journalist on the planet who ignores their answering machine. (And I have no backup copy because my computer crashed, a fact she knew.) As to your 2nd paragraph: perhaps this is a Canadian-American difference. Canadians in the cultural domain play it very zero-sum. So much for kinder and gentler. Thanks, Grant AH, Ginna, and Jim, my feelings exactly. Thank you, Grant

Virginia, I didnt sent her an email, but a phone message. And you tell me, is there a journalist on the planet who ignores their answering machine. (And I have no backup copy because my computer crashed, a fact she knew.)

As to your 2nd paragraph: perhaps this is a Canadian-American difference. Canadians in the cultural domain play it very zero-sum. So much for kinder and gentler.

Thanks, Grant

]]> By: Virginia Postrel http://cultureby.com/2004/12/newspapers_vs_b.html/comment-page-1#comment-6893 Virginia Postrel Wed, 22 Dec 2004 16:00:48 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=1052#comment-6893 I suspect you're overinterpreting her lack of response. She may be busy, may be on vacation, may not be good about responding to email, may have deleted your email, or there may be any number of other reasons she didn't respond. Or she may just wonder why you don't have a copy in your "messages sent" file. <p> At any rate, I know lots of journalists and I don't know any journalists who would see your post as stealing an idea as general as "write something about Christmas trees." Indeed, if you'd written the post first, a journalist could easily have called you to get you to elaborate or just say it again over the phone. It happens all the time with other forms of publication, from books to academic papers. I don't know why it wouldn't happen with blog postings and, in fact, I'm not entirely sure it hasn't happened to me. I'm pretty sure it has happened to some of the legal experts on Volokh Conspiracy. <p> A newspaper reporter is going to round up a bunch of different people's different thoughts on Christmas tree and weave them into something new. A blog posting that represents a single source's thoughts is not in conflict with such an article.</p></p> I suspect you’re overinterpreting her lack of response. She may be busy, may be on vacation, may not be good about responding to email, may have deleted your email, or there may be any number of other reasons she didn’t respond. Or she may just wonder why you don’t have a copy in your “messages sent” file.

At any rate, I know lots of journalists and I don’t know any journalists who would see your post as stealing an idea as general as “write something about Christmas trees.” Indeed, if you’d written the post first, a journalist could easily have called you to get you to elaborate or just say it again over the phone. It happens all the time with other forms of publication, from books to academic papers. I don’t know why it wouldn’t happen with blog postings and, in fact, I’m not entirely sure it hasn’t happened to me. I’m pretty sure it has happened to some of the legal experts on Volokh Conspiracy.

A newspaper reporter is going to round up a bunch of different people’s different thoughts on Christmas tree and weave them into something new. A blog posting that represents a single source’s thoughts is not in conflict with such an article.

]]> By: Dingwall http://cultureby.com/2004/12/newspapers_vs_b.html/comment-page-1#comment-6892 Dingwall Wed, 22 Dec 2004 01:17:41 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=1052#comment-6892 The person who "owns" a story is the person who tells the story best. I suspect after reading your take on the subject, Ms. Milroy recognized she was going to be in trouble on that point. Merry Christmas to you, Pam and Cat. dingwall The person who “owns” a story is the person who tells the story best. I suspect after reading your take on the subject, Ms. Milroy recognized she was going to be in trouble on that point.

Merry Christmas to you, Pam and Cat.

dingwall

]]> By: Ginna Dowler http://cultureby.com/2004/12/newspapers_vs_b.html/comment-page-1#comment-6891 Ginna Dowler Tue, 21 Dec 2004 00:08:19 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=1052#comment-6891 Or it may be that she's personally threatened. I read the Globe every day, and while Sarah Milroy's name is vaguely familiar, I can't remember a single thing she's written. Or it may be that she’s personally threatened. I read the Globe every day, and while Sarah Milroy’s name is vaguely familiar, I can’t remember a single thing she’s written.

]]> By: Steve Portigal http://cultureby.com/2004/12/newspapers_vs_b.html/comment-page-1#comment-6890 Steve Portigal Mon, 20 Dec 2004 20:31:47 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=1052#comment-6890 I wonder there's a conflict in her mind in terms of ownership of "the story" - is it your story or her story? I'm sure the writer feels the ownership, but as a content contributor, I'm sure you feel the same. It's kind of like ethnography - we sometimes entice people to participate with the indication that their contribution will help drive the creation of a future product. But of course, when we synthesize and deliver findings from these interviews, we don't think of any insights that came from those interviews as belong to them, they belong to us! We did the interviews! I wonder there’s a conflict in her mind in terms of ownership of “the story” – is it your story or her story? I’m sure the writer feels the ownership, but as a content contributor, I’m sure you feel the same.

It’s kind of like ethnography – we sometimes entice people to participate with the indication that their contribution will help drive the creation of a future product. But of course, when we synthesize and deliver findings from these interviews, we don’t think of any insights that came from those interviews as belong to them, they belong to us! We did the interviews!

]]> By: AH http://cultureby.com/2004/12/newspapers_vs_b.html/comment-page-1#comment-6889 AH Mon, 20 Dec 2004 20:24:51 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=1052#comment-6889 Perhaps it's belaboring the obvious, but journalists used to have a hammerlock on publishing, so that they could condescend to gather a variety of our opinions, and select the ones they could profitably use. Now anyone worth asking, and more, are already publishing. What a shock that must be! Essentially, the reporter can now only ask other reporters for material, unless she does real primary or documentary research. Heh. Perhaps it’s belaboring the obvious, but journalists used to have a hammerlock on publishing, so that they could condescend to gather a variety of our opinions, and select the ones they could profitably use. Now anyone worth asking, and more, are already publishing. What a shock that must be! Essentially, the reporter can now only ask other reporters for material, unless she does real primary or documentary research.

Heh.

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