http://www.joethink.com/blog/2008/03/nostalgia-is-not-a-business-model/ Thoughts on building relevance, online storytelling, and local journalism Fri, 16 May 2008 19:43:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 http://www.joethink.com/blog/2008/03/nostalgia-is-not-a-business-model/#comment-13418 Eyes East: A blog about Dalian and Northeast China » Blog Archive » Things are bad in Africa Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:12:54 +0000 http://www.joethink.com/blog/2008/03/nostalgia-is-not-a-business-model/#comment-13418 [...] to be, I get it. But it’s time to stop whining and start building something worthy of all the nostalgia we keep throwing at ink on paper. Tags:africa journalism [...] […] to be, I get it. But it’s time to stop whining and start building something worthy of all the nostalgia we keep throwing at ink on paper. Tags:africa journalism […]

]]> http://www.joethink.com/blog/2008/03/nostalgia-is-not-a-business-model/#comment-13370 Pastbake Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:17:11 +0000 http://www.joethink.com/blog/2008/03/nostalgia-is-not-a-business-model/#comment-13370 There should be no business model in the news. You can't make money from reporting the truth because its just too boring and everyday - which is precisly why local newspapers suck and have always sucked. What you are talking about is media, propaganda and advertising. If there is a nostalgia it is for the time when people believed and had faith in objectivity and unbiased reporting - those days are long gone. We don't have NEWS today we have an unending stream of trivialities and opinions. There should be no business model in the news. You can’t make money from reporting the truth because its just too boring and everyday - which is precisly why local newspapers suck and have always sucked. What you are talking about is media, propaganda and advertising. If there is a nostalgia it is for the time when people believed and had faith in objectivity and unbiased reporting - those days are long gone. We don’t have NEWS today we have an unending stream of trivialities and opinions.

]]> http://www.joethink.com/blog/2008/03/nostalgia-is-not-a-business-model/#comment-13215 contentious.com - links for 2008-03-08 Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:22:53 +0000 http://www.joethink.com/blog/2008/03/nostalgia-is-not-a-business-model/#comment-13215 [...] Nostalgia is not a business model : Joe Think » Online News Blog Archive Excellent comeback to the latest example of newspaper nostalgia….. (tags: media+evolution tidbits+fodder newspapers change disagreement) [...] […] Nostalgia is not a business model : Joe Think » Online News Blog Archive Excellent comeback to the latest example of newspaper nostalgia….. (tags: media+evolution tidbits+fodder newspapers change disagreement) […]

]]> http://www.joethink.com/blog/2008/03/nostalgia-is-not-a-business-model/#comment-13202 links for 2008-03-08 : William M. Hartnett Sat, 08 Mar 2008 10:23:06 +0000 http://www.joethink.com/blog/2008/03/nostalgia-is-not-a-business-model/#comment-13202 [...] Nostalgia is not a business model - Joe Think “Gosh, so much hand-wringing. I love newspapers too, and you know what I worry about? I worry about the collective lack of imagination of those … who can’t envision a future any better than the present that exists.” (tags: newspapers) [...] […] Nostalgia is not a business model - Joe Think “Gosh, so much hand-wringing. I love newspapers too, and you know what I worry about? I worry about the collective lack of imagination of those … who can’t envision a future any better than the present that exists.” (tags: newspapers) […]

]]> http://www.joethink.com/blog/2008/03/nostalgia-is-not-a-business-model/#comment-13174 knackeredhack Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:36:09 +0000 http://www.joethink.com/blog/2008/03/nostalgia-is-not-a-business-model/#comment-13174 I agree with you about on-line as a story-telling medium. Compared with printed text and static photos and the limits of space, the combinations that seem possible now are mind-boggling. If you are engaged with the new medium, and just as much as a journalist I would have thought an academic would be interested for didactic purposes, every day there is a new discovery, a small eureka moment of how better to convey information. Who has time to read newspapers any more with so much "news" to be involved in? I agree with you about on-line as a story-telling medium. Compared with printed text and static photos and the limits of space, the combinations that seem possible now are mind-boggling. If you are engaged with the new medium, and just as much as a journalist I would have thought an academic would be interested for didactic purposes, every day there is a new discovery, a small eureka moment of how better to convey information. Who has time to read newspapers any more with so much “news” to be involved in?

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