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October 13, 2013 8:40 AM
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is a personal Notebook Thanks John Dudley for the following tweet "If you like interesting snippets on all sorts of subjects relevant to academia, information, the world, highly recommended is @grip54 's collection:" La curation de contenus, la mémoire partagée d'une veille scientifique et sociétale
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Antivaccine groups have claimed that their misinformation and lies should be protected by the First Amendment. It appears that the cost of such posts is clearly that of being called out by scientists and real doctors. And to be silenced by social media platforms for such. This is not censorship: it simply is making that the scientific truth prevails over the lies. At the end of the day, these antivaccine groups have tried to see their lies protected by free speech, but free speech is never free from the science, the facts and he truth. Therefore, it is totally normal that SCOTUS decided to not take their lawsuit…
https://lnkd.in/ebx_ANUS
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July 5, 2:40 AM
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How do we know if Open Access research is having its intended impact?
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July 5, 2:11 AM
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Fueled by my love (obsession?) for organizing and labeling, I created a Linktree to bring together all my work in one spot. From teaching and education research to science communication and community outreach - everything’s now in one easy-to-navigate place! Explore it here: https://lnkd.in/gNy8B6t2
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July 5, 2:01 AM
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❗In 2023, Elsevier and Taylor & Francis Group were 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 than big tech giants like Amazon, Google, and Apple — and even car manufacturers like BMW Group. How is that possible? Simple.
- 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐬 work for free. Most research is publicly funded, yet publishers pay nothing for the content they sell.
- 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐬 and many 𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 also work for free. The peer review process is handled voluntarily by academics.
- Authors pay to publish. #OpenAccess, now the dominant model, shifts the cost onto researchers.
- 𝐋𝐢𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 pay to read. University libraries spend millions to access articles written and reviewed by their own staff.
- 𝐎𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐲 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫. A handful of publishers dominate the market, acquiring smaller competitors to grow their influence.
- 𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐨𝐫 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐡. Academics must publish to survive, which means publishers face no shortage of submissions.
𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘭 𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘦𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘭 𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘬 — making academic publishing one of the most lucrative legal businesses in the world.
𝐘𝐞𝐭… 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞’𝐬 𝐧𝐨 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐚𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬.
𝐔𝐧𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞. 💔
#ScientificPublishing #PeerReview #Oligopoly #Margin #Profit
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July 2, 1:12 PM
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The world’s largest open-source open-data library. Mirrors Sci-Hub, Library Genesis, Z-Library, and more.
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June 27, 9:29 AM
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𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐟: 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 – 𝐀 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐀𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐚 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐋𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐌𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞
We are pleased to announce the launch of a new policy brief (https://lnkd.in/eV-xpT2u) developed by the PLAN-B Project and the AquaPLAN project.
Titled Restoring the Night, the brief builds on the 2023 European Light Pollution Manifesto (https://lnkd.in/ewNjNBnx) and outlines a strategic framework to address artificial light at night (#ALAN) as an emerging environmental issue.
𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐬:
◾ 99% of Europe’s population and biodiversity live under light-polluted skies
◾ 30% of vertebrates and over 60% of invertebrates are nocturnal
◾ Light pollution contributes to an estimated $3.4 trillion in annual lost ecosystem service value globally
The brief calls for action through 10 𝐤𝐞𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, including:
◾ Recognising light pollution as environmental pollution
◾ Defining ecological limits for ALAN
◾ Establishing a coherent, harmonised EU regulatory framework
◾ Requiring monitoring, transparency, and data sharing
◾ Supporting education, awareness, and international cooperation
Since its launch in April, our light pollution policy campaign (https://lnkd.in/dE-76cWC) has received support from organisations including Buglife, the Università di Pisa, the Tyrolean Environmental Ombuds Office, and the Royal Astronomical Society, as well as individuals from over 40 countries.
We invite institutions, experts, and individuals to:
◾ Share the policy brief
◾ Join national and regional implementation efforts
◾ Support the campaign as an individual or organisation (sign the form: https://lnkd.in/dE-76cWC or contact us to get an official Support Letter)
◾ Help disseminate and translate the brief
Read the policy brief and Executive Summary: https://lnkd.in/eV-xpT2u
𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐮𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐬.
We believe that with coordinated action, strong policy, and public engagement, we can ensure that artificial light is used responsibly, purposefully, and within ecological limits.
We thank everyone who was involved with us in developing the policy brief and policy action: Yana Yakushina, Professor Mike Wood, Alejandro Sanchez de Miguel, Alexandre Nascimento, Graeme Sherriff, Michael Lomas PhD, Reinhard A. Klenke, Elena Maggi, DarkSky, LightingEurope, and many others!
https://lnkd.in/e4wuGuzz
#LightPollution #EnvironmentalPolicy #HorizonEurope #PLANB #AquaPLAN #Sustainability #EUenvironment #ALAN #BiodiversityProtection #DarkSkyProtection #Environment #Pollution | ١٢ تعليقات على LinkedIn
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Gilbert C FAURE
June 26, 8:14 AM
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NEW PAPER: The Theory of Economic Complexity
The Economic Complexity Index or ECI is a widely used empirical tool with an unclear theoretical basis. In this paper, we change that by formally deriving ECI for several production functions and showing what it really does.
In a single-factor model, ECI separates economies that are better or worse endowed with the factor. In a model with many factors, ECI tells us which economies have a higher probability of being endowed with many of them--regardless of what these factors are.
The idea that you can measure the combined presence of economic factors—no matter how they are defined--is an interesting departure in thinking. It provides a theoretical basis for the use of complexity measures in economic development. In the paper, we show this property is robust to substantial levels of noise and applies to other production functions, as long as they are not multiplicatively separable.
We also show that our model explains differences in network structure, like those observed between the product space (a network with a core and a periphery) and the research space (which is shaped as a ring). In the product space, the core-periphery structure tells us that capabilities are correlated across countries (e.g. Singapore scores high across all capabilities and Mali scores low across all of them). In the case of the research space, the ring structure is given by the fact that the capabilities of each field are only similar to those of a few neighboring fields.
Our main model is a generalization of Kremer’s O-Ring model with factors that can be made specific to each economy and activity. In this model, the output of an economy in an activity is proportional to the probability that it is not missing the factors that the activity requires. This allows us to easily generate output matrices as large as those observed in the empirical literature and calculate their ECI. We also used this opportunity to embed this model into a short-run equilibrium framework showing that prices increase concavely with the complexity of a product and that economies should converge to the wages of others with similar levels of complexity.
This is one of the most fun papers that I have worked in a long time. If you want to geek out with the mathematical foundations of economic complexity theory, please give it a read.
https://lnkd.in/du3tvWXh | 24 comments on LinkedIn
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June 25, 9:21 AM
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Still paying for research papers? Stop right now.
There are 30+ free sites where students, thesis writers, and researchers can download full academic papers — legally and without limits.
I just put together this visual guide to help you access:
✅ Peer-reviewed journal articles
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Use these to:
• Write your literature review faster
• Find research gaps with confidence
• Support your thesis with real data
🔗 Some must-have links to bookmark:
• https://core.ac.uk
• https://lnkd.in/gGZa8cA3
• https://lnkd.in/gVhVEQgE
• https://arxiv.org
• https://doaj.org
• https://lnkd.in/gYQxVKcn
• https://lnkd.in/grKUUF9u
• https://www.zenodo.org
• https://ethos.bl.uk
• https://unpaywall.org
(You can Google any of these to find exactly what you need.)
Save this post — you’ll need it every time you start a new assignment, proposal, or thesis.
Know a friend struggling to find papers? Tag them below
Want a downloadable version of this list? Comment “📘 PDF” and I’ll send it.
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June 23, 7:54 AM
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Suivre le regard des passants nocturnes.
Une étude scientifique pour montrer une appréhension différente de la marche la nuit.
Même environnement, mais Les femmes balayent la périphérie, les zones sombres. Les hommes, eux, regardent le centre un point de lumière, un point focal. Les femmes sont à l'affût de dangers potentiels, les hommes directement vers leurs destination.
Un bon design urbain, c'est celui qui rassure autant qu'il guide.
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June 23, 6:45 AM
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Si vous avez besoin d’information, n’utilisez pas d’IA générative. Les programmes basés sur des LLMs ne seront jamais de bons outils informationnels, et cela s'explique aussi bien empiriquement que formellement et conceptuellement, comme je l’ai expliqué au 24e congrès de la SFSIC - Société Française des Sciences de l'Information et de la Communication. Mon texte est en ligne : https://lnkd.in/g5F6jnGA
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June 22, 11:09 AM
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🚨 New video alert! 🚨 BHA School of Lighting has just dropped a new YouTube video - in celebration of the UNESCO International Day of Light✨ 🎥Now available to watch here: https://lnkd.in/d4BqpTvu
📢📢 Claim your 25% off course fees discount at ➡️https://lnkd.in/dqgwqYGX 📢📢
One week ago, BHA School of Lighting Enlightened Community celebrated the UNESCO International Day of Light, where our Founding Educator, Philip Hammond, explored this year’s theme: Light-Innovation-Society—showcasing how light shapes science, technology, sustainability, and culture. We hope you enjoy this celebration of the role of light in our lives!
✨ Key highlights from the event:
~ UNESCO International Day of Light – history of the hashtag #dayoflight to raise awareness of light-based technologies.
~ Science of Light – breakthroughs in optics, photonics, lasers, and their impact on solar energy, medical imaging, and fibre optic communication.
~ Sustainable Development – advancements in solar power, LED technology, and smart lighting applications in agriculture, healthcare, and environmental monitoring.
~ Cultural Influence – light’s significance in architecture, photography, visual arts, and enhancing well-being through smart lighting innovations.
Through these discussions, we recognize the transformative power of light and its role in shaping a brighter, more sustainable future for our planet.
💡 Be sure to join us for our next webinar on June 19 – guest speaker & details to be announced soon. Watch this space! 👀
#lightday2025 #internationaldayoflight #bhaschooloflighting #education #elearning #lightingdesign #light #lighting #lightingdesign #YouTube
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June 20, 6:50 AM
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A luminaire isn’t just a technical object; it primarily serves the human experience within the city. As an essential component of urban furniture, its aesthetics directly contribute to the quality of life and the feelings of people moving through our streets.🧍
As designer and manufacturer of public lighting solutions, we master the entire process: from product design to optical engineering, including lighting consultancy.
Our commitment is to create luminaires that are both durable and aesthetically pleasing, designed for precise and appropriate lighting.
Our solutions, such as Gemme, Orna, and Corto, go beyond simple illumination. They are true technical solutions crafted to beautify public spaces, thereby transforming our urban environments. 💡
Let’s bring your lighting project to life!
https://lnkd.in/dfYDfviZ
#eclatecinternational #urbanlighting #lightpollution #streetlighting
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Document RFK, Junior doesn't want you to see. It's a summary of evidence on Thimerosal that was posted on the CDC website by its experts, then removed because RFK, Junior didn't like its conclusions.
https://lnkd.in/gJ2tRYwe
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Trek bivouac par les chemins ruraux : le Chemin Sauvage est un itinéraire pour trekkeurs aguerris, marcheurs au long cours, ou randonneurs
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July 5, 2:19 AM
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In this post – the first of two discussing artificial intelligence and information discovery – we explore the evolution of information discovery, its role in the research journey, and how it can be applied to help researchers and publishers alike.
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July 5, 2:09 AM
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Publication rates before and after tenure:
🔹a sharp increase during the tenure track
🔹a peak just before obtaining tenure
🔹substantial decline post-tenure in non-lab-based fields
🔹sustained high levels in lab-based fields
Source:
Giorgio Tripodi, Xiang Zheng, Yifan Qian, Dakota Murray, Benjamin Jones, Chaoqun Ni, Dashun Wang (2024), Tenure and Research Trajectories:
https://lnkd.in/eFhd3BkX | 60 comments on LinkedIn
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July 3, 8:13 AM
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In order to fully understand how light pollution affects our world, we need to know how much of it is in which places. Divergent results from different measurement methods present some tension, but recent research suggests a way forward.
Read more about how we can reconcile views of the Earth at night from above and below: https://lnkd.in/gZXeaNZE
#LightPollution #DarkSkies #Skyglow #RemoteSensing #VIIRS
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June 27, 9:31 AM
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„Walking through neighborhoods, volunteers identified sources of light pollution…
Surprisingly, streetlights only made up 10.3% of all the light sources. Many (48.2%) were illuminated private windows, and commercial windows added another 7.4%. Other source types made up the remaining 18%, including illuminated signs, floodlights, facade illuminations, video screens, decorative lights, and illuminated house numbers and door bells.“
An article on the recently published #Nachtlichtbühne paper: https://lnkd.in/eW_prCuj
#lightpollution #citizenscience #sciencenews #satellite #lighting
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June 27, 9:21 AM
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This PhD student is recruiting public health professionals who used social media during the pandemic (so...pretty much everyone) to contribute to a health communication Delphi study. It only took a few minutes to participate. Consider taking part if you have time!
Collaboration on Social Science and Immunisation
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June 26, 8:11 AM
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🙏Thank you all!
💊 The 3rd TSE Health Economics Conference has just ended, bringing together international experts from academia, and practitioners from the public and private sectors, to discuss recent developments in health economics.
Thank you to the speakers, moderators, partners, students, staff and attendees who have contributed to the success of this event!
💬 “This conference at the crossroads of innovation, research and policy related to health is a key event for the TSE Health Center. It's one of the only scientific conferences of this scale organized in Europe on this subject, and it's a privileged forum for exchange with our counterparts, particularly in Europe.”, the organizers: Pierre Dubois & Jean Tirole
📅 Save the date for the 4th edition on June 16 & 17, 2026
🙏 Many thanks to CEPR - Centre for Economic Policy Research, European Research Council (ERC), and the TSE Health Center partners: bioMérieux, Bpifrance, GIE GERS - Groupement pour l'Elaboration et la Réalisation de Statistiques, Leem and IUCT Oncopole for their support to this scientific event.
We look forward to seeing you next year!
📸 Loïc Bourniquel & TSE
#regulation, #innovation #pharmaceutical #personalizedmedicine #drugdevelopment #AMR
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June 24, 7:24 AM
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June 23, 6:58 AM
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Guide pratique de Perplexity pour les enseignants : fonctionnalités Pro, Focus et Spaces, applications pédagogiques et conseils pour une utilisation en classe.
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June 23, 6:42 AM
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How can you protect nature if you ignore the night?
Environmental policies, plans, and intentions overwhelmingly ignore temporal changes and the needs of the nocturnal environment.
#DontNeglectTheNight is our new campaign, calling on everyone to protect the whole natural world, not just the parts we see during the day.
Join us. Add your voice here: https://lnkd.in/eZpHuKj7
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June 21, 7:38 AM
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June 20, 6:49 AM
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🚨 Call for Papers – Special Issue in Tourism Geographies Journal
After Dark: Atmospheres, Temporalities, and Embodied Practices of Nighttime Tourism
I’m proud to announce the launch of a special issue that I am leading as Guest Editor, dedicated to exploring how tourism is shaped by—and shapes—the night.
As Coordinator of the International Night Studies Network, my work has long centered on the multiple ways nighttime becomes a critical space for cultural expression, urban transformation, and affective experience. In this issue, I am joined by my colleague and co-editor Dr. Jordi Nofre (Coordinator of the LXNights Research Group), with whom I share a deep commitment to advancing Night Studies as a vital field of inquiry.
This special issue invites contributions on a wide range of nighttime tourism practices—from light art festivals and queer nightlife to astrotourism, nocturnal wellness, religious vigils, night diving, and night safaris. It aims to offer new insights into the rhythms, atmospheres, politics, and aesthetics of tourism after dark.
📅 Abstract deadline: 15 November 2025
📌 Full Call for Papers: https://lnkd.in/dapCwBa7
📎 Submission Guidelines: https://lnkd.in/dpqjpUED
If your research is lighting up the night, we want to hear from you. Join us in expanding the boundaries of tourism geography—one nocturnal encounter at a time.
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At the recent International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy, Jeff Jarvis, Professor of Journalism at CUNY, gave a keynote speech that provides valuable insight and advice as to where the future of news and journalism are headed.
While the full keynote and the Q&A with the audience is recorded in full in this 55' mins long video, I have summarised here below his key points and takeaways, so that you can get at least a good basic idea of his viewpoints in under 3 mins.
The value of this keynote for content curators is the fact that Jeff Jarvis highlights and validates a process, mission and approach where the ability to collect, vet and curate information, resources and tools, to satisfy a specific need, is going to take a much more central and important role in the development of new forms journalism and in the evolution of the business models that will support it.
Jeff Jarvis' Key 15 Takeaways on the Future of Journalism:
1. Mass audiences don't exist.
This is just a way to look at people that served the mass media industry model.
2. Journalism is in the service business.
We must fundamentally rethink the way we produce the news, so that they actually serve specific people needs.
3. Journalism needs to specialise.
Do what you do best and link to the rest.
4. Relationships and listening
Need to listen and create relationships with their community
Need to understand what the problems and needs and intercept them
5. Journalists need to become community advocates
Need to change how we evaluate waht we do as journalists
Must help people to make sense
6. Community.
Move from media-centric to community-centric
Go to the community first, to observe, to ask and listen, before creating content that serve their needs
7. Membership.
This is not about subscriptions.
It is about collaboration and what we do with the community we serve.
People don't want to belong to a media organisation.
People want to be part of true passionate communities.
Community can contribute: Content, effort, marketing, resources, ideas, feedback, customer assistance, etc.
8. Beyond articles.
Continuous live blogging, tweeting, data, etc.
There a lot more formats that can be used to create valuable content.
9. Mobile is not about content delivery.
Mobile is about use cases
re-organise the news around the public specific needs we would create higher value that by following our own production cycle.
What about if we broke up news in hundreds of different use cases that specifically apply to mobile?
For example: give me all the world news that count in 2 mins.
Or: I want to know everything that happens about this story, in real-time
or: I want to connect with members of my community and accomplish something
10. We've to re-invent TV news
TV news sucks.
There is a lot of untapped tech that we can use.
Great opportunities to do better.
11. Business Models - Digital first
Every journalist is fully digital.
Print comes after digital.
Print no longer rules the culture of a newspaper.
12. The traditional (ad-based) mass media business model kills journalism.
By importing the old business model of mass media onto the Internet, with reach and frequency, mass, scale, volume, we have corrupted journalism.
Clicks will inevitably lead to cats.
If your goal is more clicks you will put up more cats.
We have to move past volume, to value.
We need give more relevance to our readers.
And we can do so only if we get to know them as individual members of a true communities.
13. Paywalls are not the way to go.
The idea of selling content online doesn't work very well. Unless you are Bloomberg or someone who sells information that is very fresh and valuable for a specific need.
14. Native advertising is not going to save us.
Rather, with it, we may giving up our true last values, as our own voices, authority and our ability to tell a story. If we fool our readers into thinking that native advertising comes from the same people who gives them the news, we have given up our last asset. Credibility.
15. Rethink the metrics.
Views, clicks, likes are no longer appropriate.
Attention is a better metric. (see Chartbeat).
The metric that is count to count most is going to be more qualitative than quantitative and it is going to be about whether we are valuable in people's lives. I don't know how to measure that, but we need to find out how to do it.
My comment: This is a must-watch video for any journalist seriously interested in getting a better feel for the direction and focus that news and journalism will take.
Insightful. 10/10
Original video: https://youtu.be/RsPvnVeo1G0
(55':30")
Keynote: 0:00 to 29:43
Audience Q&A: 30:00 to 55:30