News Vs Noise

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Why Google News has no noise:

Robert Scoble is happy with the Noise in Twitter and finds it better than Google News or Techmeme. This forces me to think.

• What is news, is it 140 character headline or the complete coverage.
• On one hand, we talk about degrading values of  media and journalism and on the other hand - anything and everything is now News
• Are we removing fact checking, reporting and analysis from News & making it a Arm Chair Journalism
• What qualifies News - would be harmful to our future, if we remove the validity of the source and authority from it.
• What impact will it have on a fresh talented journalist, who wants to report ‘real news’ - he will find himself totally defeated as nobody is interested in his analysis but just the buzz.

But whatever Scoble says - he is saying it from his own personal experience and the kind of ecosystem he is part of on Twitter. Top bloggers like him have covered and provided insights on many a things that traditional media would not be able to as these guys are the extreme examples of early adoptors and have a unique style and vision. Twitter suits perfectly in this environment - to track the buzz in real time as it is happening and not like other mediums - tracking the buzz when it has happened.

But News is not just picking the buzz, it’s about the semantics that it encloses within it. A take on it’s past, present and future and it’s relation with the society. Out society in general, is well updated but not well informed.

Technology has changed the production (traditional media vs social media) and the distribution (agents to social bookmarkers, bloggers, diggers, twitterers) but one thing it has not created any significant impact on - is the quality of the News and the quality of readership.

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