http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/01/29/schools-open/ by Jeff Jarvis Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:57:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/01/29/schools-open/#comment-28080 BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » The dinosaurs whine Tue, 31 Jan 2006 17:21:07 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/?p=1075#comment-28080 [...] I watch my son, Jake, who has nothing short of an addiction to news at Digg.com and I call that a great success. OK, so it’s not a newspaper. Yes, it’s about tech. But it is news. At our session on the new tools of news at CUNY this weekend, Jake gave the professors a tour of Digg and explained why he liked it and trusted it. That was the most controversial moment of the weekend. It brought out a great discussion about new means of defining news and trust. (And Jake held is own most admirably.) I hope the former employers of these gentlemen are having just that kind of discussion and that they leave the tears in beers to these former titans. [...] [...] I watch my son, Jake, who has nothing short of an addiction to news at Digg.com and I call that a great success. OK, so it’s not a newspaper. Yes, it’s about tech. But it is news. At our session on the new tools of news at CUNY this weekend, Jake gave the professors a tour of Digg and explained why he liked it and trusted it. That was the most controversial moment of the weekend. It brought out a great discussion about new means of defining news and trust. (And Jake held is own most admirably.) I hope the former employers of these gentlemen are having just that kind of discussion and that they leave the tears in beers to these former titans. [...]

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