The 5th Estate: Citizen News » cathedral v. bazaar http://www.biverson.com/5th-estate How economics, open source, digitization, and the 21st century are transforming journalism by Barbara K. Iverson Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:36:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Good look at Twitter from Bob Verdi http://www.biverson.com/5th-estate/2009/08/good-look-at-twitter-from-bob-verdi/ http://www.biverson.com/5th-estate/2009/08/good-look-at-twitter-from-bob-verdi/#comments Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:43:52 +0000 Barbara Iverson http://www.biverson.com/5th-estate/?p=245 Selfishly, I see a problem here. Ballplayers forever seek excuses to avoid confrontations with nosy reporters. Personal Web sites have been a savior for jocks, who can convey news and notes in their own words on their own terms. When Tiger Woods has something important to announce, he’s not going to call his hometown daily.

As you might have noticed, the print industry is struggling. Yet the very publications that still can’t quite get a handle on the Internet after all these years are now promoting the Twitter generation. This sounds like a death wish, worse than serial “no comments.”

via More folly with sports league’s trying to control athletes’ ‘tweets’ — chicagotribune.com.

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