Comments on: Newsies beat bloggers? Some caveats on memetracker study

By: News Ecosystem Demands Collaboration, Not Us vs. Them Mentality | Chris O’Brien

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:06:50 +0000

[...] There are any number of holes that could be punched in the study. And Scott Rosenberg does a nice job of mapping out many of those red flags here. [...]

By: È la stampa, bellezza… | Max News

È la stampa, bellezza… | Max News — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:37:42 +0000

[...] i giornalisti arrivano sulle notizie 150 minuti prima dei blogger. Scott Rosenberg del blog Wordyard invita a prendere questi risultati con le pinze. La guerra tra giornalisti di qui e giornalisti di [...]

By: News Ecosystem Demands Collaboration, Not Us vs. Them Mentality « The Levisa Lazer

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:02:04 +0000

[...] There are any number of holes that could be punched in the study. And Scott Rosenberg does a nice job of mapping out many of those red flags here. [...]

By: technology & the social » Blog Archive » Meta memes, breaking news, and categorizing the media

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:33:29 +0000

[...] this question. This is always imperfect but it can be done in better or worse ways. That’s where Scott Rosenberg adds to the conversation. Rather than criticizing the idea of doing the study at all, he digs into the methods and finds [...]

By: Why The Story That Bloggers Are A Few Hours Behind Mainstream Press Is Wrong | dv8-designs

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:44:58 +0000

[...] more important to understand is Scott Rosenberg’s deconstruction of the methodology of the study. Jon Kleinberg, the professor who led the study, is one of the sharpest folks out [...]

By: Martha

Martha — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:52:07 +0000

I didnt get that message from the story at all. It’s not about who’s beating whom. The study said that the trad media is slow to warm up to a story but then it quickly dies, whereas blogs grab a story early and stick with it as online discussion continues.

By: JV

JV — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:02:09 +0000

I think the media needs to get it’s ducks in a row and deal in a meaningful way with this. They need to put their nose to the grindstone and come up with some new paradigms to run up the flagpole and see who salutes them.

Otherwise the perception of the medium as just the message with regards to traditional media and it’s old school newsprint and 6 O’clock talking heads could become a tipping point.

Beam me up Scotty – I have met the enemy and he is us . . . . .

By: Sylvia Paull

Sylvia Paull — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:54:02 +0000

i don’t trust mainstream media to write about research like this objectively. They are part of the story and should recuse themselves.

By: In the news cycle, memes spread more like a heartbeat than a virus » Nieman Journalism Lab

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:53:32 +0000

[...] while I was writing this post, Scott Rosenberg weighed in with many of the same criticisms, while concluding: Nonetheless, I fully expect to see it taken as [...]

By: Another Perspective on How “News” “Diffuses”: The Francisville 4 from Inside the Newsroom « J-School: Educating Independent Journalists

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:44:36 +0000

[...] things go, but I imagine that the authors are now in the process of watching, as Scott Rosenberg put it, their nuanced and complex scholarship become a meme itself … a meme that “the news [...]