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Très bon article de Jérôme Dupuis et Guillaume Grallet sur le livre électronique dans l'Express de cette semaine. Petit complément. J'ajouterais que si j'ai effectivement dit, en voyant la version poche ultra compacte des Bienveillantes, que rien ne vaudra jamais un Folio, je pense que ce n'est vrai qu'en l'état actuel de la technologie et des modèles de distribution de l'encre électronique, et tant que l'édition ne profitera pas de ses bienfaits.

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The link journalism meme seems to have legs, based on the number of smart people who picked it up. Now it’s time to kick it up a notch, with the concept of NETWORKED link journalism, which can give journalists, collectively, the power of Digg and Google to direct huge amounts of traffic on the web.

But first lets look at how the concept of link journalism has been refined and supported:

From Josh Cantone at ReadWriteWeb:

The Drudge Report and other so-called link blogs, are really a subset of edited news aggregation, which has a great signal to noise ratio. Because the content is being vetted by an editor, readers can assume that they’re being directed only to relevant, non-redundant reporting (assuming they trust the editor). Link journalism is also something citizen journalists do a lot of, as when we share links via Google Reader like Robert Scoble, or via del.icio.us like Jemima Kiss. Bloggers and citizen journalists have long recognized the value of the link as a way to add context for readers and reinforce the points we make in our posts.

Mindy McAdams points to the example of Joshua Micah Marshall’s link journalism on Talking Points Memo, which recently receive a George Polk Award in journalism:

In providing links to diverse reports appearing in many different locations, TPM’s Marshall and his colleagues demonstrated the authority of their analysis that particular U.S. attorneys had been dismissed for political reasons.

Rather than relying on what Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel have famously criticized as the “journalism of assertion,” the new link journalism supplies evidence by backing up statements. Rather than making a phone call to a favorite and easy-to-reach expert or pundit, the journalist conducts research (imagine that!) and sources the facts by linking directly to them.

Jack Lail shares his own experience with link journalism:

I’ve been posting content that consisted of links to blogs for about a year and have for a long time included outbound links in stories. But those efforts are accelerating. I recently began experimenting with Karp on creating sets of links as content, some created by one person bookmaking relevant content and some as collaborative efforts of multiple bookmarkers.

The results are impressive. These outbound linking articles are strong traffic drivers because, I believe, they are providing a valuable, time-saving service to readers. On more than one day in the past week, a link “article” was the No. 1 “story” on the combined knoxnews/govolsxtra sites. And in the context of stories, they provide an additional rich layering of information.

All of these observations support the substantive journalistic value — and content value — of links in the context of a specific reporting effort, i.e. the link journalism equivalent of a news article.

But what’s the link journalism equivalent of the entire newspaper?

That’s were networked link journalism comes into play.

Networked link journalism is combining all the links created by journalists practicing link journalism to determine that most important, interesting, and newsworthy content that journalists are linking to.

In the simplest form of networked link journalism, one link = one vote. The stories with the most votes rise to the top.

This is the newspaper of the future — or rather the newspaper of today. This is how Google works, and how Digg works, by combining the power of many links.

What’s on a Google search results page? Or Digg’s homepage? A bunch of links.

But not just any links — the “best” links.

Why do some many people go to Google and Digg to click on those links? Why do they drive so much traffic on the web?

Because those links are determined by networks, not individuals — and networks are the most powerful force on the web.

An individual practicing link journalism can drive tens or, in the case of top link blogger/journalists, hundreds of visits for each link. The uber link journalists like Glenn Reynolds or Andrew Sullivan can drive a few thousand. Matt Drudge, the exception that proves the rule, can drive many thousands.

It’s all a matter of scale.

Journalists practicing link journalism in isolation can influence content distribution on the web (which most journalists are not doing at all), but only to a limited degree.

Journalists practicing networked link journalism, on the other hand, could have a huge influence over content distribution on the web — if enough journalists participated, they could drive enough traffic to crash servers.

We created Publish2 as a platform for networked link journalism, to give journalists and news organizations the power online that they once had offline — the power of distribution, the power of Google and Digg on the web — a power that, completely counter to the monopoly distribution model, journalism can only have collectively.

Remember the rule of networks on the web — the bigger the network, the more powerful it is.

There’s much more to this vision — such as a solution to the problem of rampant gaming that plagues Digg and Google, and the value of link journalism as content (as Jack has discovered) — but I want to see if the networked link journalism meme catches first. (If at first you don’t succeed, try another meme.)

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Donald Miller, executive director of the USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture and director of the USC School of Religion, co-wrote Global Pentecostalism: The New Face of Christian Social Engagement with Tetsunao Yamamori.

This video highlights some of the documentary footage that Miller shot during research visits to more than 20 countries.

Additional clips and interviews are available on a DVD included with the book. Video edited by: Mira Zimet

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The Cohen Prize committee of The Melville Society has named Professor Jeffory Clymer the winner of the 2007 Cohen Prize for his article, "Property and Selfhood in Herman Melville's Pierre," which was published in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Volume 61.2 (September 2006). The Cohen Prize is awarded annually for the best published article or book chapter on Melville. For more information on the article, click here.

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La Chaire de recherche du Canada en littérature contemporaine et
le Département des littératures de l’Université Laval

vous invitent à entendre

Marin Dacos
Agrégé d’histoire, Ingénieur de recherches au CNRS
Directeur du Centre pour l’édition électronique ouverte (CLEO), Fondateur du portail Revues.org

Enjeux de l’édition électronique en sciences humaines et sociales

« L’édition électronique scientifique est plus un “moment” qu’’un “fait absolu”. Nous nous trouvons dans une période de fondation de ce nouveau support. C’’est une opportunité historique de repenser, ou au moins de bousculer des paysages éditoriaux qui se sont parfois durcis à l’’excès. » (Marin Dacos)

Cette conférence, et le débat qui suivra, seront l’’occasion de réfléchir aux transformations du champ éditorial en lien avec les possibilités offertes par le web ; la discussion portera également sur les différentes avenues de diffusion des savoirs et des revues, à partir de l’’expérience du portail Revues.org (une fédération de revues savantes électroniques en sciences humaines et sociales). Cette conférence permettra enfin aux acteurs confrontés à ces questions de discuter, de manière pratique, des difficultés rencontrées, des choix possibles et des enjeux qui s’’y trouvent liés.

Lundi 21 avril 2008, à 11h30
au DKN-3244 (salle du conseil de la Faculté des lettres)

Entrée libre.
Bienvenue à toutes et tous!

Pour information : René Audet (rene.audet@lit.ulaval.ca)
Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur la littérature et la culture québécoises (CRILCQ) http://www.crilcq.org

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Hoy empieza Influencers!

La clave de Influencers se halla en unas historias y sus protagonistas: impostores, músicos pseudo-totalitaristas, hackers conceptuales, geógrafos aberrantes, anarquitectos, actores de teatro invisible, que a lo largo de tres noches presentan su trabajo, mostrando materiales poco conocidos, conversando con el público y explicando retos y estrategias.

En The Influencers se borran las fronteras entre disciplinas (porque el mensaje es el mensaje, el medio no es más que una táctica) y se descubren nexos entre proyectos aparentemente lejanos, además de trazar genealogías atrevidas entre diferentes paises y generaciones. Inevitablmente, se exploran también las ambigüedades y se discuten las contradicciones. El objetivo? Buscar en la manipulación de los símbolos quotidianos, en lo excesivo y en lo políticamente incorrecto unas possibles claves para transformar el presente e imaginar el futuro.

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Cette formation, intitulée “Faire évoluer une maquette de site avec Lodel. Le Lodelscript” était prévue à Marseille les 5, 6 et 7 mars 2008.

Par manque d’inscriptions, cette formation est reportée à une date ultérieure. Vous trouverez prochainement sur ce blog les nouvelles dates de cette formation.

L’objectif de cette formation est de permettre aux stagiaires de créer et de modifier des maquettes de sites sous Lodel.
Elle s’adresse à des personnes maitrisant le HTML et les CSS dans un éditeur texte et non wysiwyg.

Programme

• Explication du vocabulaire de Lodel et principes généraux du logiciel ;
• Principes de fonctionnement, création et modification d’un modèle éditorial ;
• Apprentissage du Lodelscript : variables, structures de contrôle, boucles, filtres et macros ;
• Organisation complexe du code, imbrication de macros, utilisation de bibliothèques de macros, boucles récursives ;
• Installation de Lodel, monosite et multisites.

Attention, aucune initiation aux CSS ne sera proposée. L’habillage graphique d’un site avec CSS sera proposé dans une autre formation.

Cette formation sera assurée par Bruno Cénou et Jean-François Rivière (CLEO).

Elle est organisée par l’Urfist-PacaC. Les inscriptions sont ouvertes sur le site de l’Urfist : http://urfist.unice.fr.

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WRT over the past three years has always maintained a sense of blogging responsibility. We made some of this policy explicit in our post in the Reconstruction “Why I blog” article. One goal was not to blog just to announce our various achievements. In fact, when you do see this, it is usually because two of us have goaded the other into posting. Or, in other cases, an announcement is wrapped in a meditation on some related topic. But let me take a moment to promote two particular successes of my WRT peers.

Christy Dena in Convergence

As she continues her dissertation writing, Christy has recently appeared in a special issue of Convergence (February 2008), edited by Henry Jenkins and Mark Deuze, with her special article entitled, “Emerging Participatory Culture Practices: Player-Created Tiers in Alternate Reality Games.” Christy has also created a website to provide a locus for further discussion of the article.

Jeremy in CommentPress

As Jeremy continues his work in his Software Studies postdoc, he has also contributed significantly to the development of the CommentPress blog annotation system, news that has been posted by a number of blogs in our blog roll, but shamefully not ours. Jeremy was working in collaboration with the talented folks over at the Institute for the Future of the Book.

You can see the fruits of Jeremy’s work over at Grand Text Auto where the plugin is serving as the venue for feedback on Noah Wardrip Fruin’s book manuscript, which is, of course, neither a printed book (as of yet) nor handwritten. (Serialized bloguscript?)
Further details:

Christy’s Abstract:

This paper introduces an emerging form of participatory culture, one that is not a modification or elaboration of a primary producer’s content. Instead, this paper details how the artifacts created to ‘play’ a primary producer’s content has become the primary work for massive global audiences. This phenomenon is observed in the genre of alternate reality games (ARGs) and is illustrated through a theory of ‘tiering’. Tiers provide separate content to different audiences. ARG designers tier their projects, targeting different players with different content. ARG player-production then creates another tier for non-playing audiences. To explicate this point, the features that provoke player-production — producer-tiering, ARG aesthetics and transmedia fragmentation — are interrogated, alongside the character of the subsequent player-production. Finally, I explore the aspects of the player-created tiers that attract massive audiences, and then posit what these observations may indicate about contemporary artforms and society in general.

More on CommentPress:

CommentPress is an open source theme for the WordPress blogging engine that allows readers to comment paragraph by paragraph in the margins of a text. Annotate, gloss, workshop, debate: with CommentPress you can do all of these things on a finer-grained level, turning a document into a conversation. It can be applied to a fixed document (paper/essay/book etc.) or to a running blog. This site is presented in “document” mode.

CommentPress was developed by the Institute for the Future of the Book. This is Version 1.4.1. Over time, we (and hopefully the community) will make improvements and add new features and extensions, all of which will be documented here on this site.

Certainly these are fine accomplishments and well within the purview of the greater WRT interests. We Recognize Them (and I post).

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