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09/01/2006

Links Potpourri 09.01.06

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Publishers toss Booker winners into the reject pile.
They can’t judge a book without its cover. Publishers and agents have rejected two Booker prize-winning novels submitted as works by aspiring authors.

Honestly, "truthiness" is selected the word of 2005.
A panel of linguists has decided the word that best reflects 2005 is "truthiness," defined as the quality of stating concepts one wishes or believes to be true, rather than the facts.

The Year of the Podcast
Podcast is the word of the year, or hadn't you heard? I mean literally; the editors of the New Oxford American Dictionary chose "podcast" as their word of the year, beating out such runners-up as "lifehack" and "sudoku."

What Will You Pay For Media?
The best things in life -- TV, radio, newspapers -- used to be free, or pretty darned close to free. And now they're not. So the media question for 2006 is: What are you going to pay for, and why?

Is on-demand service killing prime time?
"It's not just about the Nielsen (ratings) anymore," says Jerry Maglio, Starz! vice president of marketing. "It's about the Nielsens plus this plus that, depending on who's being targeted, that will equal success or failure. The video landscape is changing -- daily, it seems."

Films have never just been about entertainment.
David Puttnam: Does political cinema mirror life? How much impact can a movie have on its audience? To what extent is it able to influence the way we think about politics? The relationship between cinema and politics, often troubled, has recently become far too distant.

Telenovela, American-Style
"Nuestro Barrio" (Spanish for "Our Neighborhood"), America's first locally produced telenovela, or Latin American soap opera, is poised to offer much more than love affairs and plot twists. "Nuestro Barrio" offers a Jeffersonian vision: Success comes from learning the game of economics, working hard, and playing to win. The dialogue, conducted in Spanglish, is a mix of Spanish and English, reflecting the language of many immigrants.

"Framing" e manipolazione del linguaggio.
La lezione inaugurale dell’anno accademico 2005-2006 ha avuto come relatore al prof. Juan José García-Noblejas: Il “framing” consiste in un’operazione in cui il senso delle parole non indica solamente il senso delle cose di cui si sta parlando, ma lo “orienta” e lo “inquadra” dando o togliendo dalle cose certe loro qualità. In casi estremi si arriva a contraffare o impadronirsi della realtà, separandola sofisticamente del linguaggio, e riducendola a una semplice categoria linguistica.

El año que vivimos digitalmente
Weblogs. La blogosfera hispana comenzará a segmentarse temática y geográficamente, se incrementará la importancia de los portales temáticos y agregadores de nicho...

27/08/2005

Potpourri 270805: Blogs para periodistas • Revisar los contenidos de webs • El "podcasting" se instala • Crisis y cambios en Hollywood

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Euro RSCG Magnet and Columbia U. Survey of Media
While the Euro RSCG Magnet study shows that more than half (51%) of journalists use Weblogs regularly -- with 28% relying on them for day-to-day reporting, a recent study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project Survey showed that just 11% of the U.S. population reads blogs.

Entre las variadas conclusiones que aporta este estudio resalta precisamente la fuerte incidencia de los blogs en el trabajo profesional de los periodistas estadounidenses. Sobre todo, si se compara con la escasa proporción relativa de lectores que los blogs encuentran aún entre la ciudadanía en general. Y es que, si bien muchos blogs están dirigidos a este último público lector indiferenciado, hay muchos que -consciente o inconscientemente- se dirigen hacia este sector de opinion-makers. De ahí que los índices de lectura no siempre den cuenta del posible efecto multiplicador de lo escrito en los blogs que leen y tienen en cuenta los periodistas y demás profesionales de la comunicación.

Calidad, no cantidad. Aportar contenido web con valor
Gerry McGovern: En la Universidad de California, en Los Angeles, me hablaron de una intranet de contenido científico. La web tiene un equipo de 20 personas que invierte el 20 por ciento de la semana en publicar contenido nuevo y el 80 por ciento en revisar lo antiguo.

En las profesiones que tienen que ver con el oficio de escribir (tanto da que se trate de ficción como de no-ficción) es bien sabido que una de las principales ocupaciones consiste en re-escribir. Ya se ve que en el arte de publicar webs, intranets y demás, sucede algo relativamente parecido: hay que volver sobre lo ya escrito y puesto en circulación, quizá no necesariamente para reescribirlo, pero -cuando menos- para revisarlo y actualizarlo, si es el caso. Sabiendo que de ordinario, siempre es el caso. Como puede verse que sucede en Ucla.

Finding Profits In Podcasting
It wasn't long ago that podcasting was a fringe medium known only to aficionados of Web radio and audio blogs. But in just a few months, podcasting has jumped onto the leading edge of tech pop culture.

Podcasting. A soundtrack for study
Universities in America and Canada are beginning to integrate the technology into coursework as well as using it as a method of communication with each other and the outside world.

El "podcasting" no parece una simple moda pasajera. Más bien tiene las trazas de ser una actividad que ha venido a instalarse en la red y en la vida de cada dia. Ahora destacan los contenidos sonoros. Y no sólo los musicales: la Purdue University anuncia que, entre otras cosas, va a poner a disposición de los alumnos podcasts con las lecciones que quieran recuperar. En el último viaje del Discovery, hace dos semanas, un astronauta de la NASA hizo pruebas del funcionamiento de los lectores de podcasts en el vuelo orbital. Y algunos grupos religiosos están utilizando el podcastin' como una especie de púlpito virtual. Entre otras variadas iniciativas. Esperemos que pronto lleguen los video-pods, como la televisión llegó tras la radio.

Movies? TV's taking over L.A.
While Hollywood's nomadic film business has gravitated toward cheaper U.S. and foreign locales, television production has become the bedrock of the Los Angeles entertainment economy. (...) With television less vulnerable to poaching than movies, many workers are taking advantage of the boom to get jobs giving them more stability and time with their families.

Hey Hollywood, Make Better Movies to Lure Crowds
With Hollywood in the throes of rethinking its business model, movie-theater owners went on the attack, blaming the industry's problems on the choice of films being made rather than any shift in the behavior of movie-goers.

El casi desastroso resultado de los estrenos veraniegos y el aumento exponencial de los costes de producción en Hollywood, están haciendo que la meca de la industria del entretenimiento comience a revisar a fondo sus criterios de trabajo. Es bien conocida la excesiva abundancia por esos lares de ejecutivos y expertos en management, tan preocupados por inmediatos beneficios económicos como despreocupados de la calidad cinematográfica de su trabajo. El consiguiente aumento de los costos y el declinar de las cualidades artísticas, está haciendo que Los Ángeles deje de ser el lugar donde se ruedan las películas, porque es más barato hacerlo en Washington, Canadá o Nueva Zelanda. El caso es que Los Ángeles se ha convertido en el lugar donde ahora se rueda la inmensa mayoría de las series de televisión. Con la general satisfacción de los profesionales que, en vez de vivir lejos de casa, ahora aprecian mucho que -al terminar su jornada laboral- puedan volver a sus hogares y ver todos los días a la familia. Esto, que sin lugar a dudas no es ninguna tontería, va a hacer -de entrada y a medio plazo- que mejore la calidad de las series de televisión. Tanto la calidad técnica de producción como la calidad de los contenidos. Y si no, al tiempo.

20/08/2005

Potpourri 200805: World Youth Day • Wi-Fi • Journalism • Bob Dylan • Fake film critic • Comunicacion ciudadana

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Le Monde: Le Pape et les jeunes
La mort de Jean Paul II, sa succession, les premières JMJ de Benoît XVI (suivies par 6 000 journalistes) ont mis en avant, d'une manière jugée exorbitante par les tenants de la laïcité ou par les autres confessions, une institution bimillénaire tout à coup redevenue moderne, son discours restant le même, archaïque pour les uns, prophétique pour les autres.

Les JMJ durent depuis vingt ans. Trois millions de jeunes à Manille en 1995, un million à Paris, deux millions à Rome, près d'un million cette fois à Cologne. L'intuition de Jean Paul II était la bonne : les jeunes catholiques sortent de leur complexe de minoritaires. Le "miracle" de Cologne est que son oeuvre semble devoir lui survivre. Les générations se renouvellent, les papes changent et les JMJ ne semblent pas devoir mourir.

Pourquoi ce succès ? L'Eglise catholique tire profit de la mondialisation. Sa capacité de mobilisation est ancienne, mais son message est médiatisé comme jamais il ne l'a été.

Who, what, where, when and WiFi
So what's it going to be for municipal wireless broadband -- public utility or commercial commodity? Monopoly and oligopoly if left to its own economic processes will never act in the best interest of the consumer.

2005 World Youth Day facts and figures
(as at: 17.08.2005) Pilgrims: 415,178 registered pilgrims --of which 280,404 are aged between 18 and 27. Where do the pilgrims come from?: from 197 countries --including: Ivory Coast, Georgia, Haiti, Palestine, and Taiwan. [More]

Is Journalism Striking Out?
Denny Wilkins is a J-School professor: Without good journalists, others without a sense of the journalistic mission -- such as unscrupulous advertisers and political charlatans -- will be telling the stories. (See a Counterpoint to this point.)

Wi-Fi for the Masses
People looking to relocate or planning a sight-seeing trip to a metro area may be adding another item to their checklists: Does the city offer wireless access?

Bob Dylan to win the 2005 literature Nobel Price?
The 2005 Nobel prizes, whose candidates may include Bob Dylan for achievements in literature and Hans Blix for peace, will be announced in October. (More: "Nobel Prize Market")

Sony pays $1.5m over fake critic
A judge has finalised a settlement in which film studio Sony will pay $1.5m to film fans after using a fake critic to praise its movies.

BBC: Citizens do media for themselves
"Creativity and entertainment does not have to come from Hollywood and big media. We all have this innate talent to tell stories and to entertain each other" (JD Lasica, Ourmedia / More: scr)

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  • "In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising."

    Pauline Kael, film critic. Newsweek (Dec. 24, 1973).


  • "It’s all storytelling, you know. That’s what journalism is all about."

    Tom Brokaw, NBC News


  • "A play is fiction —and fiction is fact distilled into truth."

    Edward Albee, NYT. 18 Sep 66


  • “It is the business of fiction to embody mystery through manners, and mystery is a great embarrassment to the modern mind.”

    Flannery O’Connor, Mystery and Manners.


  • "Fine art is the subtlest, the most seductive, the most effective instrument of moral propaganda in the world, excepting only the example of personal conduct".

    George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, the author’s apology.


  • "Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers another."

    Gilbert Keith Chesterton, All Things Considered.


  • "A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer. He is a man who has signed a contract with his conscious and his sense of duty."

    Anton Chekhov


  • "For a country to have a great writer ... is like having another government. That’s why no régime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones."

    Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The First Circle.


  • "There is a certain embarrassment about being a storyteller in these times when stories are considered not quite as satisfying as statements and statements not quite as satisfying as statistics; but in the long run, a people is known, not by its statements or its statistics, but by the stories it tells."

    Flannery O’Connor, Mystery and Manners.

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