Good news: Zeyad has arrived in New York to study at CUNY. It has been a saga for Zeyad but he’s here and we finally got to meet, a great moment. More later, I’m sure. But I know many of you have wanted updates and so there it is.
This entry was posted on Wednesday, September 6th, 2006 at 10:17 pm and was tagged cuny, zeyad.
For some reason all those years ago I always imagined you guys would meet IRL… I’ve been following the story ever since the digital camera was sent, impossibly, to Iraq… but it wasn’t impossible was it?, so maybe other things aren’t impossible either. A journey of a thousand miles begins with one small step, and sometimes a leap of faith.
[...] On the other hand, after I followed the Power Within link that Jeff Jarvis pointed to today, I decided that I have to revise my personal definition of “serious person.” Sadly, Bill Clinton has jumped the shark. [...]
[...] NewAssignment.net gets another $10K, this time from Sunlight Foundation, plus story suggestions include ideas from MediaShift's Mark Glaser. Networked news discussion rages on at Buzzmachine with analogies between news and football and words of caution from Jay Rosen himself (if sarcastic ones). [...]
[...] If anyone doubts the prejudicial opinions so many people in the US garner against Muslims, read the comments under Jeff Jarvis’s recent post on the Pope’s comments. [...]
[...] I just called into the Stern show to read Mainelli’s rants from the comments below and to compliment Steve Lanford’s reporting. If you’re here looking for them, see the comments on this post; also here and here. And beware the Opiates. [...]
[...] I talk a good game about the power of infotainment and pop/tabloid culture, because I believe it has an unsurpassed power to get information out into the culture, information we need. But when it comes to analysis of current events, there is no better, more serious journalism to be found on TV than on Frontline. I often disagree with its slant, but its information-gathering is unsurpassed. [...]
[...] In the meantime, Jarvis' commenters raise different points, including that editorials hurt a paper's credibility, that "editorials, editorialists and editorial pages are already dying, already dying, early victims of the withering of the newspaper industry." [...]
[...] After I linked to the buzzing on Buzzmachine via Jeff Jarvis' controversial post on the death of the editorialist (previous post), a new post emerged furthering the debate , though of course most of Jarvis' commenters agree with him. The majority of Jarvis' detractors were newspaper men whom, he notes, didn't respond in the kind of all-access public forum as a blog provides (i.e. columns blocked by "pay walls"), and few (if any) posted their comments to Buzzmachine. The buzzing convo speaks for itself, with great comments like this insight from Buzzmachine reader "Guy Love": Two comments from those who responded to Jeff struck me as summing up the attitude that is going to eventually take out the institutional news empire of the old media. [...]
[...] I loved this comment from Michael Rosenblum on my response to BBC ONE Controller Peter Fincham’s speech before the Royal Television society, below, reacting to this line of Fincham’s: “User generated content is great but…..†Says Michael: I think it only fair to point out to our friend at the RTS that Harry Potter was ‘user generated content’, that JK Rowling was not a ‘professional’. In the world of print, which produces some pretty good stuff, EVERYTHING is ‘user generated’. Soon, the same will be true in TV. [...]
[...] bittorent  writes thoughtfully on buzzmachine. This time about the current adminstration excuse to ware in Iraq - we are there to spread democracy. I always think ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’ should begin at home. Check out voting machines. It really is true that Americans have no sense of irony! A President who stole the election, spreading ‘democracy’? It’s laughable. [...]
[...] In one of my long comment in another site, I went as far as drawing parallels of the broadcasters’ “power to take down videos” to the “notwithstanding clause” (NWC) (see Wikipedia) in Canada’s Charter of Rights and freedom. In short, the NWC lets Canadian provincial and federal governments to ignore all level of court decisions in some areas protected by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. So the NWC is an extremely powerful legal tool. But the two recent attempted uses of the NWC have been disastrous for the provincial government that tried (namely Alberta), and basically the people (voters) complained so loudly that the provincial government backed off completely and didn’t use the NWC at the end. [...]
[...] The Citizen Journalist meets the Citizen Engineer and soon we’ll be drowning in data: The new NewAssignment.net site launches today and Tom Evslin writes about a very real networked journalism project to find whether there are the smoking guns of network (non)neutrality lurking in our ISP wires. [...]
[...] And it's early to comment on the commenters, but still — Stephen Larson responds to Jarvis with a prediction: The thousands of newspapers in the US, from the smallest that lack resources or have their cash flow already allocated elsewhere, to the biggest ones that are stuck in financial models that have huge debt interest or dividend payments or most newspapers that simply don’t have the culture to innovate on the web side in a cost effective manner have no chance against a single well financed company like Google that has none of these problems. [...]
[...] Look at all the examples of Jarvis gives for the changing landscape of news. There is a pretty big gap between these news services and the average newspaper staff. [...]
[...] Jeff has an interesting post “Who needs Borat?” which I also left a comment. The slideshows “religious nuts” and “nutty stage mothers” in Jeff’s post left a deep impression on me. Can parents do these things to their kids? Some line has to be drawn but this is not an easy line to define at all. Thanks to Jeff for the post and links. [...]
[...] In that light, initially I didn’t note much “mainstream citizen-journalism” coverage of Will’s death. Looking around, I found mentions by Romenesko, boing boing, and media bistro, but most of the blogging about the murder was done by ideological fellow travelers, including Al Giordano at Narco News. Jeff Jarvis mentioned Will’s death; in the comments, Andy Carvin points to the memorial blog Brad Will: Presente. But Zulma Aguiar has been covering Will’s death as thoroughly as anyone; she points to Will’s final video work, which apparently (I have not watched it) ends with his shooting. NYC Indymedia just posted a statement from Will’s family. [...]
[...] Mike G commented on Jeff’s blog that he thinks teaching kids to use their imagination is more valuable than what a box that spoon feeds information can teach them. Is the truth somewhere in the middle? How does the kid in the depressed school/country get his imagined product out to the rest of the world? Wouldn’t that add some value? I think Jeff was on target when he said these kids could be linked together with the technology (wikis, etc.) [...]
[...] Massimo Mantellini commenta questo interessante articolo di Jervis che linko per comodità dei lettori. Size doesn’t matter: The distributed media economy [...]
[...] Jay Rosen: …”We understand that met with ringing statements like these many media people want to cry out in the name of reason herself: If all would speak who shall be left to listen? Can you at least tell us that? The people formerly known as the audience do not believe this problem — too many speakers! — is really their problem.”… [...]
Jeff,
Looking forward to read more on your first meeting with Zeyad. Glad he made it safely.
Yeah!
Well it’s about time!!
I’ll second Fayrouz’s comment.
Great news!
For some reason all those years ago I always imagined you guys would meet IRL… I’ve been following the story ever since the digital camera was sent, impossibly, to Iraq… but it wasn’t impossible was it?, so maybe other things aren’t impossible either. A journey of a thousand miles begins with one small step, and sometimes a leap of faith.
[...] On the other hand, after I followed the Power Within link that Jeff Jarvis pointed to today, I decided that I have to revise my personal definition of “serious person.” Sadly, Bill Clinton has jumped the shark. [...]
Welcome, Zeyad, welcome! I can’t wait to hear all your impressions.
A big American Howdy Do. Hope his stay is delighful and knowledgeable.
[...] NewAssignment.net gets another $10K, this time from Sunlight Foundation, plus story suggestions include ideas from MediaShift's Mark Glaser. Networked news discussion rages on at Buzzmachine with analogies between news and football and words of caution from Jay Rosen himself (if sarcastic ones). [...]
[...] If anyone doubts the prejudicial opinions so many people in the US garner against Muslims, read the comments under Jeff Jarvis’s recent post on the Pope’s comments. [...]
[...] I just called into the Stern show to read Mainelli’s rants from the comments below and to compliment Steve Lanford’s reporting. If you’re here looking for them, see the comments on this post; also here and here. And beware the Opiates. [...]
[...] I talk a good game about the power of infotainment and pop/tabloid culture, because I believe it has an unsurpassed power to get information out into the culture, information we need. But when it comes to analysis of current events, there is no better, more serious journalism to be found on TV than on Frontline. I often disagree with its slant, but its information-gathering is unsurpassed. [...]
[...] In the meantime, Jarvis' commenters raise different points, including that editorials hurt a paper's credibility, that "editorials, editorialists and editorial pages are already dying, already dying, early victims of the withering of the newspaper industry." [...]
[...] : And, of course, see the conversation here. [...]
[...] After I linked to the buzzing on Buzzmachine via Jeff Jarvis' controversial post on the death of the editorialist (previous post), a new post emerged furthering the debate , though of course most of Jarvis' commenters agree with him. The majority of Jarvis' detractors were newspaper men whom, he notes, didn't respond in the kind of all-access public forum as a blog provides (i.e. columns blocked by "pay walls"), and few (if any) posted their comments to Buzzmachine. The buzzing convo speaks for itself, with great comments like this insight from Buzzmachine reader "Guy Love": Two comments from those who responded to Jeff struck me as summing up the attitude that is going to eventually take out the institutional news empire of the old media. [...]
[...] Last night Jeff Jarvis waded in and Edelman posted this comment: [...]
[...] I loved this comment from Michael Rosenblum on my response to BBC ONE Controller Peter Fincham’s speech before the Royal Television society, below, reacting to this line of Fincham’s: “User generated content is great but…..†Says Michael: I think it only fair to point out to our friend at the RTS that Harry Potter was ‘user generated content’, that JK Rowling was not a ‘professional’. In the world of print, which produces some pretty good stuff, EVERYTHING is ‘user generated’. Soon, the same will be true in TV. [...]
[...] bittorent  writes thoughtfully on buzzmachine. This time about the current adminstration excuse to ware in Iraq - we are there to spread democracy. I always think ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’ should begin at home. Check out voting machines. It really is true that Americans have no sense of irony! A President who stole the election, spreading ‘democracy’? It’s laughable. [...]
[...] In one of my long comment in another site, I went as far as drawing parallels of the broadcasters’ “power to take down videos” to the “notwithstanding clause” (NWC) (see Wikipedia) in Canada’s Charter of Rights and freedom. In short, the NWC lets Canadian provincial and federal governments to ignore all level of court decisions in some areas protected by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. So the NWC is an extremely powerful legal tool. But the two recent attempted uses of the NWC have been disastrous for the provincial government that tried (namely Alberta), and basically the people (voters) complained so loudly that the provincial government backed off completely and didn’t use the NWC at the end. [...]
[...] The Citizen Journalist meets the Citizen Engineer and soon we’ll be drowning in data: The new NewAssignment.net site launches today and Tom Evslin writes about a very real networked journalism project to find whether there are the smoking guns of network (non)neutrality lurking in our ISP wires. [...]
[...] And it's early to comment on the commenters, but still — Stephen Larson responds to Jarvis with a prediction: The thousands of newspapers in the US, from the smallest that lack resources or have their cash flow already allocated elsewhere, to the biggest ones that are stuck in financial models that have huge debt interest or dividend payments or most newspapers that simply don’t have the culture to innovate on the web side in a cost effective manner have no chance against a single well financed company like Google that has none of these problems. [...]
[...] Look at all the examples of Jarvis gives for the changing landscape of news. There is a pretty big gap between these news services and the average newspaper staff. [...]
[...] Jeff has an interesting post “Who needs Borat?” which I also left a comment. The slideshows “religious nuts” and “nutty stage mothers” in Jeff’s post left a deep impression on me. Can parents do these things to their kids? Some line has to be drawn but this is not an easy line to define at all. Thanks to Jeff for the post and links. [...]
[...] In that light, initially I didn’t note much “mainstream citizen-journalism” coverage of Will’s death. Looking around, I found mentions by Romenesko, boing boing, and media bistro, but most of the blogging about the murder was done by ideological fellow travelers, including Al Giordano at Narco News. Jeff Jarvis mentioned Will’s death; in the comments, Andy Carvin points to the memorial blog Brad Will: Presente. But Zulma Aguiar has been covering Will’s death as thoroughly as anyone; she points to Will’s final video work, which apparently (I have not watched it) ends with his shooting. NYC Indymedia just posted a statement from Will’s family. [...]
[...] Mike G commented on Jeff’s blog that he thinks teaching kids to use their imagination is more valuable than what a box that spoon feeds information can teach them. Is the truth somewhere in the middle? How does the kid in the depressed school/country get his imagined product out to the rest of the world? Wouldn’t that add some value? I think Jeff was on target when he said these kids could be linked together with the technology (wikis, etc.) [...]
[...] Massimo Mantellini commenta questo interessante articolo di Jervis che linko per comodità dei lettori. Size doesn’t matter: The distributed media economy [...]
[...] Size doesn’t matter: The distributed media economy: ” [...]
[...] John Edwards on YouuuuTuuuube: ” [...]
[...] Jay Rosen: …”We understand that met with ringing statements like these many media people want to cry out in the name of reason herself: If all would speak who shall be left to listen? Can you at least tell us that? The people formerly known as the audience do not believe this problem — too many speakers! — is really their problem.”… [...]