Beat Blogging is an exciting project – but sometimes it feels like pulling teeth (or bone marrow) in an industry that just doesn’t get it. And the teeth (marrow) pulling happens one at a time. Sites like WiredJournalist help bring that transformation to a larger audience in the industry – but it’s still all about individual transformations.
Then I go through a slide show like this and think: Journalism will survive – but it won’t be done by "journalists."
Pretty sure it’s a slide show, not a slid show ;P
Although, the slides slid past me quite nicely with the embedded widget ^.^
Anyways, I don’t think I could agree with you more – as always. The entire journalistic business is caught in an “evolve or die” downward spiral right now. That’s not going to change.
Every new business model that crops up is going to face the same problems eventually. The only model that will survive the ever-quickening revolution through social media – is the one that IS social media.