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Books read in April 2012

by Cheryl Strayed — The story of someone hiking the Pacific Crest trail was the lure. She started this hike knowing nothing about long-distance hiking that I was surprised she stayed on the trail for more than one night. It’s a good book to read in the early spring — a great time to go hiking.

Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith — A mystery set in the time at the time of the end of Stalin in the Soviet Union. The oppression and fear of that time is the strong theme I took from the story.

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson — Finally. Long book that I enjoyed, but kept wondering if it couldn’t be at least 200 pages shorter.

 

Thinking, Fast and Slow  by Daniel Kahneman — It is an interesting book that challenges how questions are presented and data is interpreted. It is a dense book, best taken in small pieces.

 

The power of a passionate journalist

Hunting for Fashion’s Copycats, in Thursday’s Wall Street Journa is about how a part-time blogger on fashion led to the withdrawal by Channel of a bracelet that was a close copy of bracelet designed by Pamela Love in 2011.

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For me, the story was the power of a publishing platform, an egnaged audience, the reward of journalism and the challenge mainstream media will always face if it trys to compete, rather than cooperate against non-mainstream.

Call them fans, amateurs, part-timers, free-lancers, bloggers, whatever — it’s people who are extrememly passionate about topics.It’s a large and visible group in sports, tech, music, books, fashion. It’s a smaller, but no less passionate group in stamp collecting, woodworkng, antique cars, etc.

Mainstream news organizations need to embrace and cultivate the passionate as readers, sourcess, conributors, partners. It’s not a natural role for newsrooms and there will be many lessons learned along the way.

 

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