Comments on: children of the silo

By: dog-sactuary-wolf

dog-sactuary-wolf — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 02:28:15 +0000

Nice blog http://dog-sactuary-wolf.blogspot.com/

By: Ed Kohler

Ed Kohler — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 06:02:55 +0000

They seem to know a LOT about Facebook, but not really from a business perspective. At least they’re familiar with interacting with people online, which puts them ahead of less tech savvy journalists who aren’t familiar with 2-way conversations online.

By: Mack Collier

Mack Collier — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 01:17:29 +0000

“Kids keep handing me resumes that look like they were written 20 years ago.“
That’s because they created them with the help of teachers that haven’t looked for a job in 20 years. We can’t fault the kids for not knowing the terminology when mentioning firefox, RSS, podcasting, YouTube, and even weblogs, merits a blank stare of confusion from most of today’s college instructors. I still remember less than 5 years ago, telling the head of my college’s marketing department that I wanted to be a copywriter(at the time). His advice? A great resume was all I needed.

By: Alan Gutierrez

Alan Gutierrez — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 01:11:21 +0000

Ah, I made reference to Crossing the Chasm in my last post, but forgot to insert the link I found... http://www.assetnow.com/anx/index.cfm/1,69,71,html

By: Alan Gutierrez

Alan Gutierrez — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 00:42:30 +0000

John
To expand on your thought, we need to recognize that we are Crossing the Chasm.
Most people will still read newspapers. In New Orleans, reading the newspaper is a social activity. A group of people sit at a table and pass the sections of the Times-Picayne around and comment on the articles they read. These folks are going to be die hard laggards.
The experience of reading the newspaper online is going to be completely devoid of the social aspect for them. Even though their may be an treaded discussion attached to each article, that experience pales in comparison to reading aloud to one another.
Someone who might read a newspaper alone in their cube might find online discussion to be a great outlet for their take on the news, and provides a social outlet that has gone missing in their life.
That’s my take on why we need to focus on the message rather than the technology. There is a new opportunity to find ways to bridge online social networks and traditional social settings.

By: john

john — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 00:11:54 +0000

I’m not sure if Paul Conley’s experience or that of DK’s is the most typical though let’s not forget that for the moment more people read the newspapers than their websites, but my take on this is that we shouldn’t get over-obsessed with the technology. It’s much harder for someone to become a good writer (how ever you might choose to define that) than to learn to how to utilise the various new media.

By: DK

DK — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 21:50:47 +0000

*Named link was wrong in my last post!

By: DK

DK — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 21:50:00 +0000

Mmmm — strange — I’m finding the complete opposite with the young people I encounter. I know Paul is focussed on journalism but maybe the reason why these young people are still stuck in the old school CV ways is because that is what they are being told to do by their ‘careers’ teachers.
As I said, I’m experiencing the opposite — young people with a high level understanding of different mediums/media which they embrace as a matter of course. Only yesterday I was talking to a 17 year old about his online film projects…
Just my 10p’s worth.