Comments on: The Consumer as Publisher http://www.robhyndman.com/2006/03/03/the-consumer-as-publisher/ any technology distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:33:03 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: robhyndman.com » Blog Archive » A Soapbox for Your Thoughts http://www.robhyndman.com/2006/03/03/the-consumer-as-publisher/comment-page-1/#comment-2452 robhyndman.com » Blog Archive » A Soapbox for Your Thoughts Thu, 04 May 2006 11:26:27 +0000 http://www.robhyndman.com/2006/03/03/the-consumer-as-publisher/#comment-2452 [...] Jeff Jarvis liveblogs from the We Media conference on yet another interesting address from Tom Glocer, CEO of Reuters (notice that Jeff doesn’t kvetch about unconferences when he’s listening to Glocer?). This passage in particular got my attention: He emphasizes the speed at which both development and debate are evolving. He’s quoting lots of Technorati stats (Dave Sifry, across the room, is visibly kvelling): in the last two months, 5 million people started blogs, which is as many as live in centra London. He points to Technorati’s hockey-stick chart and says, “This doesn’t tell me that the world is lazy, that the world is apathetic, that people don’t care about debating serious issues.” But he points then to statistics of falling participation in elections. “It’s not because of an apathetic electorate. People are engaged…. Look at the almost violent debate in the blogosphere… Maybe it’s that people feel their voices are not getting through in the political process…. People seem to feel that they are getting more investment in blogging…. than they are by simply going to the polling place.” In other words, he’s asking whether citizens’ media is becoming a proxy for civic participation. I’m not sure voting is the only gauge of civic engagement; it’s an important one, but it’s not the only way to participate. [...] [...] Jeff Jarvis liveblogs from the We Media conference on yet another interesting address from Tom Glocer, CEO of Reuters (notice that Jeff doesn’t kvetch about unconferences when he’s listening to Glocer?). This passage in particular got my attention: He emphasizes the speed at which both development and debate are evolving. He’s quoting lots of Technorati stats (Dave Sifry, across the room, is visibly kvelling): in the last two months, 5 million people started blogs, which is as many as live in centra London. He points to Technorati’s hockey-stick chart and says, “This doesn’t tell me that the world is lazy, that the world is apathetic, that people don’t care about debating serious issues.” But he points then to statistics of falling participation in elections. “It’s not because of an apathetic electorate. People are engaged…. Look at the almost violent debate in the blogosphere… Maybe it’s that people feel their voices are not getting through in the political process…. People seem to feel that they are getting more investment in blogging…. than they are by simply going to the polling place.” In other words, he’s asking whether citizens’ media is becoming a proxy for civic participation. I’m not sure voting is the only gauge of civic engagement; it’s an important one, but it’s not the only way to participate. [...]

]]> By: mathewingram.com/work http://www.robhyndman.com/2006/03/03/the-consumer-as-publisher/comment-page-1/#comment-1254 mathewingram.com/work Sat, 04 Mar 2006 04:26:26 +0000 http://www.robhyndman.com/2006/03/03/the-consumer-as-publisher/#comment-1254 <strong>Encouraging words from Reuters...</strong> My old media buddy Scott Karp at Publishing 2.0 is pretty down on the recent remarks by Reuters CEO Tom Glocer, who spoke at an Online Publishers Association conference and had his speech blogged by Jeff Jarvis of Buzzmachine.com. Scott says media are... Encouraging words from Reuters…

My old media buddy Scott Karp at Publishing 2.0 is pretty down on the recent remarks by Reuters CEO Tom Glocer, who spoke at an Online Publishers Association conference and had his speech blogged by Jeff Jarvis of Buzzmachine.com. Scott says media are…

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