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Update, 9 Nov: Is personalised news the future? (see esp related links) took things further on 8 Nov, an event organised by DONA (online comms network, who ironically at best broadcast on Twitter). Some livetweeting on the unadvertised #donadk, with pre and post event blogging from speaker Søren Storm Hansen on dSeneste. Anyway, they take their media seriously in these parts, what with state subsidies and all (the FT gets a fair few kroner out of it). As a Guardianista the impression I have is of a fairly conservative industry lacking in innovation and experimentation.
Further update, 15 Nov: a Pinterest board have now popped up.
On 21 September Berlingske (think The Times) offered an event on on who decides (manages) your news. The event website on Berlingske’s online shop has now gone, but coverage was pretty thorough with ~300 tweets and a fair number of good live tweeters, including Twitter newbie @GeorgAsk, and videos turned round PDQ too. Speakers were Eli Pariser on the filter bubble (most tweeted if only to say there’s nothing different from the book and/or TED talk), plus Paul Lewis on the Guardian’s open journalism shtick and Peter Barron defending Google.
A report in Saturday’s paper concentrated on the filter bubble element, and editor in chief Lisbeth Knudsen’s blog was another big-up-the-newspapers job. A further post looked at the issue of better apps combining the network and editorial.
For me the filter bubble mallarkey is not really big news and little different from my own adherence to the Guardian for news. But the easy clicks issue is a good point worth pondering in relation to Twitter backchannels (good news for Martyn Lewis):
Filter Bubble problem: Information junk food is more likely clicked @elipariser at #jfilter twitpic.com/awt7ed
— Anders Stougaard (@andersstougaard) september 21, 2012
De positive nyheder fylder – specielt på sociale medier. Med hvad med de vigtige nyheder – dem der ikke trender? #Jfilter
— Nathalie C. Larsen (@NathalieCLarsen) september 21, 2012
Pariser: Easy to click like on positive news. Harder to do on genocide in Darfur. Some information just falls away – the hard news #jfilter
— Georg Ask Jensen (@GeorgAsk) september 21, 2012
Pariser: People have diverse interests, but will use and click on more of the “light stuff” like popular movies etc. #jfilter
— Georg Ask Jensen (@GeorgAsk) september 21, 2012
Postscript: on 17 October a book was launched on constructive/positive news, edited by the director of DR News. Here’s a report. There’s also a constructive journalism mini-site – they like their good news in Denmark, or is it no news?