The best thing about the open networks of the online world and of reading and writing blogs it the incredible access to ideas from bright people that you get.
My RSS habit started off with mainly reading blogs about PR and marketing, but the real excitement for me has been learning from people’s thinking and innovation in other fields. On my reading list now are blogs by artists, educators, political hacks, economists and business thinkers.
And every time they look at the changes happening in their field it’s a short intellectual hop to apply their insights to my own field. Beats getting stuck in a rut…
Particularly inspiring to me is journalism, where a lot of the changes that the new web is bringing can be seen most starkly and where a fierce debate about the future of the profession and the media industry as a whole is taking place.
There’s a sense that the leading thinkers here are done talking about things are changing and are charging ahead with reinvention.
Here are some links to posts that have really got me thinking in just the last couple of days:
- Jeff Jarvis reflects on the Telegraph’s different approach to the geography of the newsroom – I want a media wall! Please, please, please…
- Kevin Anderson calls on journalists to “Change or Die”…
- An account by a Florida journalist, Matt Waite, of creating a Google Maps mash-up and YouTube videos to bring a story about racing noise in a city to life. (via Martin Stabe)
- And one more from Jeff Jarvis – his slides and notes on the future of journalism form a speech tot he University of Texas – which starts with a blaze of optimism and ascends into an analysis of the opportunities and tools that the profession has to choose from.
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