How many feature stories about Facebook has the Globe done in the past five days?
By adamg - Sun, 11/30/2008 - 10:35am.
Dave Copeland keeps track so you don't have to.
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Speculating... I could
Speculating... I could imagine someone in a newsroom holding up a printout of the Facebook home page and saying "*This* is what we need to be doing today," and people reluctantly getting accounts and trying it out.
I sure hope not. :)
Editors I've known
I once worked for a Scottish editor named Bernie. We were in competition with a bigger paper based in the next town over.
Occasionally there'd be a massive eruption from his glass-walled office, the highlight of which was Bernie holding their competing paper's front page in the air, pointing at a front-page story we'd missed, screaming "Why don't we have this?!" in a dense Scottish accent.
I bet the Globe newsroom sounds like that a lot these days
So a reporter logs into Facebook and ...
Jeff Cutler doesn't think much of Neil Swidey's Globe piece on Facebook as a never ending reunion:
hold up
I think Cutler is dismissing Fogg's points too quickly.
I can guess what Fogg is getting at, and the soundbites can't really capture the arguments and background.
Basically, Facebook (sadly) is currently filling in for what we really should have now, Fogg uses the familiar example of Facebook to hint by contrast at what we should and could have, and Cutler sees this as criticism of Facebook by someone who simply misunderstands the limited immediate pragmatic uses of Facebook.