A New Search Paradigm: Real Instant Information vs Links To Pages

 

It was a few months ago when I first got to answers.com, but since then I had forgotten it.
Answers.com is a start to a new search paradigm. I haven't use it for a while, but thanks to Walt S Mossberg he brought it back to my mind to try it again.
Mossberg has recently reviewed answers.com in the Wall Street Journal, and found a lot to like.
In an article run by WSJ on January 27, 2005, entitled Unlike Search Engines, Answers.Com Responds With Data, Not Links, Walt S Mossberg mentions:

For all of their popularity and importance, search services like Google have a significant limitation:
They don't answer questions or provide information directly. If you want to know the biography of a historical figure, the meaning of a word or the size of a city, Google and its competitors usually won't simply tell you. Instead, they will generate a list of Web sites where the answers might -- or might not -- be found...
Answers.com is also a start toward a new search paradigm where the object is to provide real instant information, not just links to pages where that information may, or may not, be found. I urge you to try it.

To be continued here.

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Keyboard-to-Keyboard Combat!

 

When I was again reviewing Frank Bajak's, the Associated Press' Tech Editor, recent overview of the blogging and beating down the walls of the media establishment, another nice and key portion drew my attention.
It reads as follows:

The bloggers aren't quite overrunning the newsroom, but they are engaging established media in keyboard-to-keyboard combat that's benefiting public discourse and making the journalism ``franchises'' more accountable.

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Web logs come of age as source of news

 

The San Francisco Chronicle has an article, entitled Web logs come of age as source of news, about how bloggers are breaking the news...

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Not the Container but the Content

 

Frank Bajak, AP Technology Editor, predicts that the sovereignty of Big Journalism is eroding.
Bajak says:

If you don't know what blogging is by now and you're reading this in a newspaper please fold it up and boot up your computer. You're missing a revolution.
Bloggers, derived from the term Web log, include citizen journalists who publish on the Internet. Most aren't worth our time. But plenty of these real-time diarists can't be ignored as they second-guess and otherwise hound professional journalists like no in-house fact-checkers ever would or could.

He adds:

As such, they are beating down the walls of the media establishment.
We in traditional media should have no illusions.
Web publishers and bloggers are already stealing readers, advertisers and classifieds. Particularly for young people, journalism has become, in the words of NYU professor and PressThink.org blogger Jay Rosen, more of a conversation than a lecture.

Bajak insists:

In our business, as my boss, AP chief executive Tom Curley, observed recently, what matters now is not the container but the content. That may sound self-serving from a news wholesaler, but I can tell you that most of the information I process, books and magazines excepted, is in electronic form and delivered to my e-mail inbox via RSS feed.

I suppose It is worthy of reading by all communication men and women, so continue here.

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Bloggers Move Into the Mainstream

 

The Wall Street Journal has previewed this weekend's "Blogging, Journalism and Credibility" conference at Harvard University.
The WSJ's story, running under the headline "When Bloggers Make News", looks at the bloggers' world and the phenomenon has become known as "citizen journalism" (also known as "open source journalism", "hyper-local journalism" and "participatory journalism"), and gives the readers a picture that says:

Bloggers ... are finally moving from the alleys and side streets of the Internet into the mainstream. And as their visibility and clout increases, some are asking: what are the rules of the road? There is no exam to pass or society to join to become a blogger -- anybody can set up a "Web log" to publish his or her ideas -- and at last count, an estimated eight million people in the U.S. are doing so, writing on everything from pets to porn.

This refers to a study conducted by Pew Internet & American Life Project. According to the findings of Pew Internet & American Life Project, 7% of the 120 million U.S. adults who use the internet say they have created a blog or web-based diary. That represents more than 8 million people.

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Dialogue of Journalists and Bloggers at Harvard

 

To both journalism and blogging, credibility is essential...
There can be no question that the phenomenon of blogging, especially blogs focused on politics and public affairs, has changed the way information becomes front page news...

A group of bloggers and journalists are gathering at Harvard on Jan. 21 and 22(Friday and Saturday) for a conference exploring how journalism is being affected or transformed by blogging, entitled "Blogging, Journalism and Credibility: Battleground and Common Ground."
The conference is being organized by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School, the American Library Association’s Office of Information Technology and the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
Among questions to be discussed and reflected on are: What are the areas of common ground shared by these very different approaches to handling news and information? Can journalists who also blog do their work without conflicting standards? Might bloggers adopt standards and a transparency that will elevate their credibility? and so on.
The conference organizers are launching a pre-conference discussion on this here.
The conference is invitation-only, but don't worry, because it will be webcast live and there will be an IRC so that people can participate remotely in the discussion. All conference sessions and all online discussion will be completely public and on-the-record.
According to Jon Dude at cyberjournalist.net, you have to check this page as the dates approach for links to the webcast and instructions on how to join the IRC.
By the way, a list of participants is accessible here.

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Back again

 

Hi again. Well, new year and new start@Cyber Journalism vs Print Journalism

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