Modern Voices

The Internet Success Formula for Magazine

"The Internet is a great contributor to TW's popularity and success. As the Internet helps to facilitate the voicing of thousands of diverse perspectives from all over the globe, TW's role as curator of these perspectives, in a concise package, becomes more and more vital to thought leaders."

--Jed Hartman, Publisher, The Week

(TW is a compilation of news from outside sources packaged and analyzed by founding U.S. editor-in-chief (2001) Bill Falk and his staff.)

Newspapers Were the Blogosphere of Their Day

"It’s a relatively recent phenomenon that people believe what’s written in a newspaper. One hundred years ago, newspapers were incredibly partisan: they were the blogosphere of their day."

--Dean Wright, managing editor of consumer media, Reuters

regarding recent poll by Reuters, BBC, The Media Center

Blogs and Media Can Dance

"I think the blogosphere and traditional media can be a very powerful couple if they can figure out how to dance together."

-- Tony Conrad, founder, Sphere

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The New Currency

"In this new world of conversation, the hyperlink is becoming a new form of social gesture between peopl.  It's something akin to a tap on the shoulder."

-- Dave Sifry, founder, Technorati

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A River of Conversations

"The Internet is moving from the 1990s metaphor of the world's biggest library to become an enormous river of conversations."

-- Dave Sifry, founder, Technorati

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Blogs are Single-Subject Magazines

"An increasing number of blogs are written by specialists in their fields who basically write single-subject magazines. These are a newspaper editor's biggest nightmare."

-- Ben Hammersley, The Guardian special projects developer

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Blogs Reconnecting Academics to Mainstream Discourse

"Self-publishing on the web, whether through blogs or by posting articles in web-journals, is rapidly eclipsing traditional academic venues in its ability to serve the public and popularize knowledge. For example, I have an impact on policy making in Washington and capitals across the globe through my blog, which has close to 2,000 readers a day. Many of my readers are from a blue-chip list of policy wonks who have email tags from the leading think tanks and government agencies. Moreover scores of journalists are reading my site every day. I speak to at least 10 journalists a week, who use me and my site for story ideas, background information, and contacts. I was quoted in over 1,000 articles last year while living in Damascus. Web-publishing and blogging is reconnecting academics to main-stream intellectual discourse."

--oshua Landis,assistant professor, University of Oklahoma

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Credibility is Individual

"The blogosphere by itself has no credibility. Individual bloggers build their own credibility." -- Stephen Baker, BusinessWeek.

For Newspapers, Video Online is Just Part of the Story

"For us, it's not just video -- it's podcasting and slide shows and multimedia and blogs. It's certainly our present, and it's going to be more and more our future." -- Vivian Schiller, senior vice president and general manager of NYTimes.com.

Trust Drives Everything

"The key to keep in mind is that trust drives everything. To build and maintain trust is a tremendously difficult thing, requiring patient attention to detail and discipline over long periods of time. Mistakes by bloggers will be forgiven, but not deception and certainly not stubborn attachment to falsehood."

--Hugh Hewitt, Blog Understanding the Information Reformation That is Changing Your Life