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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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January 4, 12:58 PM
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Trust has been the foundation of scholarly publishing for hundreds of years, but for how much longer?
Researchers often mistrust publishers because of profit margins and poor customer service.
Publishers increasingly struggle to trust researchers because of paper mills and AI-generated slop.
One of my takeaways from yesterday’s discussions at the STM meeting on research integrity is that publishers are putting their trust in systems and processes, rather than in researchers.
This cultural change is significant and should not be underestimated.
Academic publishing has historically been a trust-based system.
However, the volume of content created by bad actors is simply too great for publishers to be able to assume that researchers are telling the truth.
To make matters worse, soon AI-generated images and figures will be too sophisticated to spot. It will be impossible to differentiate fact from fiction.
The foundation of the problem is that many (most?) researchers are incentivised to focus on the experimental results, rather than the experimental process.
Speed is prioritised over accuracy
Quantity is more important than quality
Authors matter more than readers
Why? Because grants and tenure depend on generating positive results at scale. AI tools make it easier to cut corners and make stuff up.
Publishers need to up their game by reacting more quickly to integrity problems when they are spotted. How? By devoting more resources to maintain the trustworthiness of the scholarly record.
However, the root cause of the problem is the academic reward and incentive system (hardly a revelation, I know).
Scientific communication will become more expensive and more exclusionary if trust is lost at scale. We are at a pivotal moment in the history of academic publishing.
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I’ve been to many conferences over the years, but this week's meeting was one of the best. The organising committee and speakers deserve praise and congratulations. Great job everyone! | 39 comments on LinkedIn
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January 4, 12:55 PM
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🇨🇳 Cette photo est magnifique, et j’y vois un symbole. Un paradoxe.
L’héritage qui se fond dans la modernité.
Le buffle d'eau et le golden retriever.
La Chine,
c'est un culte.
L'équilibre d’un grand mouvement.
Et le déséquilibre de trop de stabilité.
Anne Cheng parle de continuisme.
Sous son ciel immense, mille paysages.
Du nord au sud, d’est en ouest, elle se déploie comme une géographie du vertige.
Elle réunit presque tous les climats de la Terre : glaciers de l’Himalaya, prairies du Qinghai, dunes de Tachlamachan, rizières du Yunnan et sa grande Baie, la plus vaste mégapole du monde.
Mais en 2025, la Chine fait face à une équation planétaire : nourrir un cinquième de l’humanité tout en rétablissant l’équilibre entre sa croissance, le ciel, la terre et l’eau.
Elle perd des habitants aussi, à une vitesse folle.
Son destin se joue dans cette tension entre béton et bambou. Mais quand elle trouvera l’équilibre, alors la planète entière respirera mieux. Car l’avenir de l’humanité n’est plus indépendant de l’avenir de la Chine.
A tous les amoureux de la pensée chinoise, je recommande les extraordinaires conférences du Collège de France de l'historienne Anne Cheng.
C'est un bonbon de savoir sur le taoïsme, Confucius et l’histoire de la Chine ancienne.
C’est fascinant.
Episode 1 : La Chine, civilisation anthropo-cosmique. A écouter ici : https://buff.ly/qtHV45I
#China #photo #expo #Geneva #Chine #PlaceDesNations
Merci à Daniel Kordan pour cette photo sublime qu'il m'a autorisé à utiliser dans l'exposition Place des Nations à Genève. Cliquez ici pour en savoir plus : https://buff.ly/JxzdnvC | 15 comments on LinkedIn
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January 4, 5:32 AM
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Academia taught you to undervalue yourself.
Here is the irony.
The system that makes you feel replaceable is also building one of the most versatile skill sets in the professional world.
Data analysis under uncertainty.
Project management with minimal resources.
Technical communication under constraints.
Cross-functional collaboration across cultures.
These are not "academic skills."
These are exactly what life sciences companies pay for.
The problem is not value. The problem is translation.
Most PhDs describe themselves as "I only know how to do research."
That is the wrong frame.
You do not just do research. You design experiments. You manage complexity. You make decisions with incomplete data. You write clearly about difficult topics. You coordinate people who do not report to you.
That is not a limitation. That is a leadership profile.
The 2.1% who secure tenure-track positions are not the winners. They are just one path. The 53.2% who move to industry are not refugees. They are applying the same skills in a different context.
Often a more sustainable one.
Leaving academia is not giving up on science.
It is applying science differently.
I wrote about this in detailed. Article below.
What skill did you undervalue most when you left academia?
#LifeSciences #PhDCareers #AcademiaToIndustry #CareerTransition #ScienceCareers
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January 4, 4:40 AM
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Navigating AI Literacy: STEM Students’ Perceptions of Generative AI (The University of Queensland Australia):
https://lnkd.in/dA6STq9T
Glimpse: The need for AI literacy that goes beyond technical proficiency to incorporate ethical and professional competencies is growing as generative AI becomes more and more integrated into STEM education. Through the viewpoint of UNESCO's Digital Literacy Global Framework, this mixed-methods study investigates how STEM students see and apply generative AI, evaluating compliance with industry standards in an AI-driven workplace. Data from surveys and interviews with engineering and IT students (N = 22) reveals that although students acknowledge the productivity advantages of generative AI and exhibit developing critical thinking and adaptability skills, there are still significant gaps in ethical awareness and digital citizenship. In order to better prepare students for professional practice, the results highlight the need for more systematic integration of AI literacy into STEM curriculum, integrating technical skills with ethical reasoning and responsible technology use.
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Free articles and analyses on soft counter-extremism, against online hate, and on the theory of mis-/disinformation (usually third-party content). Two-week reviews available via the following three websites:
• counter-terrorism.org
• preventhate.org
• strategism.org
The most recent LinkedIn posts, with summaries, on the above subjects can be accessed via:
• https://lnkd.in/eBarZAew
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January 3, 10:24 AM
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Calendrier officiel 2026 des congés en Chine : dates du Nouvel An chinois, jours de récupération, signe du zodiaque et planning annuel 2020-2030.
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January 2, 12:59 PM
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petit amusement avec l'IA ce matin en analysant les projections annuelles du Niemanlab sur le journalisme avec cette infographie générée par chatgpt.
Mon but était de voir en quoi les prédictions pouvaient entrer en adéquation avec mon projet sur l'Hyperinvestigation.
La présentation apparaît sous formes de jeu de fiches ou de cartes avec comme d'habitude l'expertise des interviewés sur des axes spécifiques.
Je retiens des points essentiels qui se confirment : la qualité des données et des métadonnées va devoir se renforcer, les opérations de sécurisation des données également notamment pour faire face aux arnaques et aux fasses informations ce qui va obliger à "protocoler" le processus régulier de vérification, et bien entendu la valeur ajoutée va de plus en plus se déplacer vers les investigations plus ou moins complexes. On notera également la mention d'une transparence collaborative ou "crowdsourced accountability".
Le besoin de démonstration et des logiques OSINT va se poursuivre.
Les prédictions 2026 : https://lnkd.in/d2HyZHam
L'analyse de meta-media des prédictions : https://lnkd.in/d7xYHW4R
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January 2, 5:13 AM
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Important pour toute la communauté médico scientifique
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January 2, 5:12 AM
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#25MomentsOpenEducation
#8: #OEWeek25 smashed records with global events & participation! Community-driven celebrations of open practices and resources. Roll up #OEWeek26!
📈🎊 https://twp.ai/Imt7GO
#OEGlobal #OEWeek #OpenEducation #OER
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January 1, 4:42 AM
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🥰⭐Enjoying the vibes this #NewYearsEve? To make it even more fun, #DiscoverWuhan prepared a small game for you.
Screenshot the video at a random moment to uncover your New Year's resolution
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January 1, 4:24 AM
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Relire Alexis de Tocqueville en cette fin d'année 2025, alors que la France s'enfonce dans l'hiver fiscal et le marasme technocratique, n'est pas un exercice intellectuel. C'est un constat d'autopsie. Ce que l'aristocrate normand décrivait avec effroi en 1840 dans la seconde partie de De la démocratie en Amérique, ce n'était pas le totalitarisme brutal du XXe siècle, celui des goulags et des bruits de bottes. Non, Tocqueville avait vu plus loin. Il avait vu le « Great Reset » avant la lettre. Il avait vu l'avènement de ce que nous vivons aujourd'hui : une servitude confortable, aseptisée, numérique, consentie par des citoyens réduits à l'état d'animaux domestiques, trop occupés à jouir de leurs petits plaisirs pour s'apercevoir qu'ils ont perdu la liberté de se mouvoir hors de l'enclos.
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Gilbert C FAURE
December 30, 2025 4:49 AM
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People tend to search for information from search engines like Google in biased ways, which can bias search engine output and, in turn, distort our beliefs.
This is called the “narrow search effect,” and it was documented across 21 studies in this recent paper: https://lnkd.in/ehQ2DJ-d
Other similar work has found that searching Google for misinformation can actually increase belief in misinformation, since Google often returns results that support the misinformation people search for: https://lnkd.in/eCyT_hGJ
These dynamics may become particularly pronounced with generative AI, which can be “sycophantic,” or excessively agreeable (see our research on sycophancy here: https://lnkd.in/er3Kb97X)
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December 30, 2025 4:15 AM
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Il n’est jamais trop tard pour apprendre à mieux veiller.
On le voit tous les jours : l’information circule vite, parfois trop vite. Entre les signaux faibles qui passent inaperçus, les fake news qui s’invitent partout et les contenus générés par l’IA qui semblent convaincants… mais qui se trompent parfois 😅, savoir-faire de la veille devient un vrai atout.
Se former à la veille, c’est apprendre à mieux s’orienter :
🔹 Construire un sourcing fiable,
🔹 Repérer ce qui compte vraiment,
🔹 Organiser sa collecte et son analyse,
🔹 Partager la bonne information au bon moment.
En clair : ne plus subir le flux, mais reprendre la main. 🚀
Chez Curebot, on a lancé il y a plusieurs mois la Curebot Academy.
Un espace de formation en ligne, pensé pour toutes celles et ceux qui veulent progresser en veille stratégique — que ce soit pour prendre en main la plateforme, aller plus loin dans leurs usages… ou simplement comprendre comment structurer leur veille.
➡️ Ce que vous y trouverez : des modules courts, des vidéos, des tutoriels, quelques quiz… et surtout la possibilité d’apprendre tranquillement, à votre rythme.
C’est gratuit, en français et ouvert à toutes et tous — même si vous n’utilisez pas Curebot.
Jeter un coup d’oeil à la Curebot Academy via le lien en commentaire
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January 4, 12:56 PM
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On integrity and citations and precocious early career scholars.
A year ago, I asked how there could be so many early career scholars with amazing citation counts. One wit replied that the younger generation is simply faster, hungrier, & under more pressure for citations. Another wit was deeply offended that I dared ask the question.
While I'm not sure the young are faster or hungrier than my 31 year-old self, & I'm sad that my question offended some, I am certain that early career scholars are under greater pressure to demonstrate impact than I ever was.
Yet.
My question remains.
Nature published a piece that addressed my question about early career scholars. You can find it here: https://lnkd.in/eU5iGbTW
First, it defines what is a precocious early career scholar. Leaning on Ioannidis, Nature defines "precocious” scientists as those who reached the top-cited list within eight years of their first publication, & “ultra-precocious” as those who did so within five years. By contrast, the average time from first publication to most-cited status was 36 years."
Nature reports that: "Many of these precocious authors publish what the analysis calls an ‘extreme’ number of papers — an average of more than one per week. The analysis also found that these authors often cite their own papers at a rate well above the average. Some level of such ‘self-citation’ is common in scientific papers, but the average rate is around 13%, whereas some of these authors’ rates were 25–50%."
Commenting on the topic, Zach Adelman, an entomologist at Texas A&M University in College Station, opines “I don’t think that we’re all of a sudden mass-producing more geniuses now than we were five years ago.”"
And.
It seems we are not. It appears some early career scholars (a) cite themselves at prodigious rates & (b) have more papers retracted than more senior scholars.
Nature reports that "Ioannidis found that 31% of the ultra-precocious authors cited themselves more often than did 95% of the authors in their field, & that 20% fell off the top-cited list when self-citations were excluded. When Ioannidis included some 2024 data, he found that 17 of the authors who qualified as ultra-precocious had had at least one paper retracted."
So what does that tell all of us?
(1) Be wary. While some precocious scholars are ethical, the evidence suggests suspicious patterns for early-career scholars who generate many papers that receive many citations quickly.
(2) Be ethical. If you cheat, modern citation analysis techniques will out you as problematic, or worse a fraud, if your citations are not gained ethically.
(3) Be careful about pointing fingers. Just because someone is well-cited or published, it does not mean they are cheating. Nature points to one person who published a timely paper that clearly was not cheating.
We can build better academic systems if we are ethical, careful, & measured in evaluating each other's work.
hashtag#academicintegrity
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January 4, 8:51 AM
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Toute l'Europe vous souhaite une bonne année 2026 ! ✨
🥂 Happy new year, Feliz año nuevo, Gott nytt år… Apprenez à souhaiter "Bonne année" à nos voisins européens dans les 24 langues officielles de l'Union européenne ! ➡️ https://lnkd.in/ejDiqKax
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January 4, 4:40 AM
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One great opportunity of long-distance international air travel is uninterrupted reading time. I used this time to explore key trends and opportunities shaping higher education in 2026 and a few themes stood out clearly.
☆ More diverse learners: Higher education is serving not just school leavers, but working professionals, career-changers and lifelong learners.
☆ Skills-focused education: Stronger alignment with industry, experiential learning and curricula that develop skills & competencies are becoming essential.
☆ AI embedded in education: AI is now central to teaching, assessment, student support and institutional efficiency.
☆ Flexible learning models: Blended, hybrid and online learning are evolving from “alternatives” to expectations.
☆ Micro-credentials & stackable pathways: Short, flexible credentials are complementing traditional degrees. MOOCs and micro-credentials continue to expand access, offering flexible, affordable routes for learners to validate skills, stack them into larger qualifications over time.
☆ Affordability & funding models: With rising tuition and economic pressures, institutions are innovating around affordability. Accelerated degrees, scholarships targeted at under-served populations and new public-private partnerships to share cost and risk.
☆ Wellbeing is a core priority: Beyond academics and skills, student &staff wellness is now understood as inseparable from success. Institutions are strengthening support systems and embedding wellbeing into campus culture.
The future of higher education lies in being flexible, human-centred, digitally enabled and outcomes-focused.
#HigherEducation #EdTech #AIinEducation #StudentSuccess #LifelongLearning
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January 4, 4:11 AM
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Struggling to access research papers?
Here’s a list of FREE download sites for your next research paper!
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General Research
1. Semantic Scholar
2. AnswerThis (YC F25)
3. CORE
4. ResearchGate
5. arXiv
6. SSRN
7. JSTOR
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Medical & Specialized Science
1. PubMed Central
2. PLOS
3. Biorxiv
4. PsyArXiv
5. PhilPapers
6. HAL Archives
7. SciELO
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Multi-Disciplinary Research
1. EBSCO
2. OATD
3. Zonodo
4. Digital CN
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Legal & Open Access Advocacy
1. DOAJ
2. Unpaywall
3. Sci-Hub
4. DeepDyve
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1. SpringerOpen
2. OpenAIRE
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Thesis & Dissertation
1. EThOS
2. Internet Archives
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🚀 Want to make your research more accessible? Use these sites to download and dive into your next academic paper!
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📘 WFME World Conference 2025 Proceedings Published
The proceedings of the WFME World Conference 2025 have been published as a supplement in Medical Education, capturing the abstracts and discussions that shaped this landmark event and highlighting the breadth of innovation shared across the global medical education community.
Link here: https://lnkd.in/eqN2b56Q
The WFME World Conference 2025—co-hosted by the World Federation for Medical Education (WFME) and the Institute for Medical Education Accreditation (IMEAc)—centred on the theme Towards Health for All – Through Quality Medical Education. Bringing together 900 delegates from 85 countries, the conference offered a dynamic platform for leaders, advocates and educators across the full continuum of medical education to connect, exchange knowledge, and inspire positive change.
📢 More information about the next 2028 WFME World Conference will be shared as they become available. As preparations progress, we remain committed to building momentum, strengthening our global community, and creating new opportunities for collaboration and exchange. Stay tuned for updates.
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💡 Connaissez-vous les bibliothèques et musées de l'Université Paris Cité ?
Parmi les directions centrales qui œuvrent au projet et au rayonnement de l'université, la Direction générale déléguée aux bibliothèques et musées (DGDBM), en charge de la mission de diffusion des savoirs et de l'information scientifique et technique, couvre un champ d'intervention très large, au service de toutes et tous : enseignantes et enseignants, étudiantes et étudiants, chercheuses et chercheurs, enseignantes-chercheuses et enseignants-chercheurs, BIATSS et grand public.
🎂 À l'occasion des cinq ans d’UPCité, la DGDBM vient de publier ses deux premiers rapports d'activité. Le premier, qui couvre la période 2019-2024, revient sur les grandes étapes de consolidation de la DGDBM. Le second met en lumière les projets qui ont vu le jour en 2024-2025. Ces deux bilans d’activité, échelonnés sur des temporalités différentes, mettent en lumière la pluralité des actions conduites par la DGDBM : fourniture de documents sur tous supports, appui à la publication en Science ouverte, formation aux compétences informationnelles et lutte contre la désinformation, participation à la vie et à l’animation des campus, valorisation du patrimoine culturel, artistique et scientifique de l’établissement ou encore organisation d'événements dans le cadre de la politique SAPS (Science Avec et Pour la Société) portée par l'université.
🔎 Découvrez à travers ces deux rapports d'activité un panorama complet des activités et des missions portées par les équipes de la Direction générale déléguée aux bibliothèques et musées, ainsi que les temps forts et projets qui ont particulièrement marqué ces cinq dernières années.
En savoir plus 👉 https://lnkd.in/eHbpZPVx
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Give this fun activity a try! It’s a great way for students to learn how to build a positive and professional online presence. https://bit.ly/3JaHbJA
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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