{"id":2431,"date":"2010-05-11T22:58:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T05:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/?p=2431"},"modified":"2010-05-11T23:05:58","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T06:05:58","slug":"journal-bricolage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2010\/05\/11\/journal-bricolage\/","title":{"rendered":"Journal bricolage?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Off-topic preamble, part 1: Lately, when I have a &#8220;must-write&#8221; on my agenda, I find myself staring at a &#8220;can&#8217;t-write.&#8221; Take the topic of journalism (<em>please, take it!<\/em>)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Continuing off-topic preamble, part 2: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bricolage\">Bricolage<\/a> means putting something together from cobbled together pieces, or processes.<\/p>\n<p>Cut to the chase (not exactly part 3, but getting there): With that in mind, two pieces, which the reader may complete or associate in ways that she sees fit:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<div style=\"width: 515px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/daeaves\/status\/13794223848\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"Tweet by David Eaves\" src=\"http:\/\/img.skitch.com\/20100512-gupr6gswj35245yk9ufmjyss6b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"505\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">screenshot<\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">^ That&#8217;s one item (a screenshot of a tweet today by <a href=\"http:\/\/eaves.ca\/\">David Eaves<\/a>, apropos of transactions at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada30.ca\/\">Canada 3.0 Digital Media Forum<\/a> in Stratford, Ontario).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The second item is from today&#8217;s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><em>Toronto Star<\/em><\/span>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/business\/companies\/canwest\/article\/808033--canwest-sees-future-in-digital-content\"> CanWest sees future in digital content<\/a>, about the sale of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canwestglobal.com\/\">Canwest Global Communications<\/a>&#8216; newspapers for CDN$1.1 billion to a group headed by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_Godfrey\">Paul Godfrey<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Citizen journalists, reporters equipped with video cameras, news stories that are filed first to the latest mobile gadget before they appear in traditional print media.<\/p>\n<p>These are some of the concepts the man who will be advising the next owners of Canada\u2019s largest chain of newspapers will bring to the table. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/business\/companies\/canwest\/article\/808033--canwest-sees-future-in-digital-content\">source<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">I&#8217;m not so sure that anyone in the suits really cares about &#8220;intrinsic nature,&#8221; frankly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some thoughts on two disparate opinions\/ diverging business models in journalism\/ newspapers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1899,103,1898],"tags":[3732,58],"class_list":["post-2431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free_press","category-media","category-newspapers","tag-canwest","tag-journalism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2431"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2439,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431\/revisions\/2439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}