Comments on: The Day Idealism Died http://jaxn.org/article/2007/06/06/the-day-idealism-died/ the philosophy of technology Fri, 05 Dec 2008 06:50:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-beta2-9582 hourly 1 By: mike http://jaxn.org/article/2007/06/06/the-day-idealism-died/comment-page-1/#comment-12384 mike Fri, 08 Jun 2007 14:16:59 +0000 http://jaxn.org/article/2007/06/06/the-day-idealism-died/#comment-12384 Jackson: I stand corrected. Jackson: I stand corrected.

]]> By: Jackson http://jaxn.org/article/2007/06/06/the-day-idealism-died/comment-page-1/#comment-12347 Jackson Thu, 07 Jun 2007 21:37:46 +0000 http://jaxn.org/article/2007/06/06/the-day-idealism-died/#comment-12347 I don't think I ever said the experiment failed. I said the experiment ended. (short reply b/c I am on my phone) I don’t think I ever said the experiment failed. I said the experiment ended. (short reply b/c I am on my phone)

]]> By: Lynnster http://jaxn.org/article/2007/06/06/the-day-idealism-died/comment-page-1/#comment-12341 Lynnster Thu, 07 Jun 2007 19:10:55 +0000 http://jaxn.org/article/2007/06/06/the-day-idealism-died/#comment-12341 <i>I don’t believe the local bloggers will let the idea die. It will be reborn in some form.</i> I believe you are 100% right about that, Mike. Not only because the majority of the bloggers just won't give up, but there's also a fairly good-sized cache of bloggers in the mix with, as they say, "mad web skillz" (myself included). Nobody wants to lose NIT, but were the ax to ever fall on it, I have little doubt that something else (possibly along the same lines of how the KnoxViews site & aggregator operates) will rise up in its wake. I don’t believe the local bloggers will let the idea die. It will be reborn in some form.

I believe you are 100% right about that, Mike.

Not only because the majority of the bloggers just won’t give up, but there’s also a fairly good-sized cache of bloggers in the mix with, as they say, “mad web skillz” (myself included). Nobody wants to lose NIT, but were the ax to ever fall on it, I have little doubt that something else (possibly along the same lines of how the KnoxViews site & aggregator operates) will rise up in its wake.

]]> By: mike http://jaxn.org/article/2007/06/06/the-day-idealism-died/comment-page-1/#comment-12324 mike Thu, 07 Jun 2007 14:20:03 +0000 http://jaxn.org/article/2007/06/06/the-day-idealism-died/#comment-12324 Jackson: NiT as an "experiment" never failed. The fact that it wasn't fully exploited financially was a decision I made. I didn't want the local bloggers thinking we were making these moves only to profit off their posts. To me NiT was a public service to the community. I watched with great satisfaction the growth of NiT and Brittney for the past two years. It got the station's toes into the waters of blogging and led to what once was 23 separate station blogs. I was just as stunned as anyone yesterday when Brittney resigned. We had ridden out many a controversy at NiT which wasn't unexpected. We jumped feet first into unexplored waters and along with the accolades came just as many if not more arrows. Broadcasters are used to and expect to control anything and everything leaving their station in any form. NiT and the blogs that followed where completely counter- intuitive to that. As Terry Heaston constantly pointed out we were a Media 1.0 company now playing in a Media 2.0 world. That's too much of a leap for some people on both sides. I hope NiT survives but even if it does not I'll still count it as a success and I don’t believe the local bloggers will let the idea die. It will be reborn in some form. Jackson: NiT as an “experiment” never failed. The fact that it wasn’t fully exploited financially was a decision I made. I didn’t want the local bloggers thinking we were making these moves only to profit off their posts. To me NiT was a public service to the community. I watched with great satisfaction the growth of NiT and Brittney for the past two years. It got the station’s toes into the waters of blogging and led to what once was 23 separate station blogs. I was just as stunned as anyone yesterday when Brittney resigned. We had ridden out many a controversy at NiT which wasn’t unexpected. We jumped feet first into unexplored waters and along with the accolades came just as many if not more arrows. Broadcasters are used to and expect to control anything and everything leaving their station in any form. NiT and the blogs that followed where completely counter- intuitive to that.
As Terry Heaston constantly pointed out we were a Media 1.0 company now playing in a Media 2.0 world. That’s too much of a leap for some people on both sides. I hope NiT survives but even if it does not I’ll still count it as a success and I don’t believe the local bloggers will let the idea die. It will be reborn in some form.

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