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		<outline created="Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:15:35 GMT" text="Math and the new journalism">
			<outline created="Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:15:40 GMT" text="Last week I wrote a piece called &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/stories/2010/01/14/yearZeroForJournalism.html&quot;&gt;Year Zero for Journalism&lt;/a&gt;."></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:15:57 GMT" text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/&quot;&gt;Doc Searls&lt;/a&gt;, ever the phrase-turner, called it Journalism 0.0."></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:16:21 GMT" text="Jay and I call our &lt;a href=&quot;http://rebootnews.com/&quot;&gt;podcast&lt;/a&gt; Rebooting The News."></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:28:34 GMT" text="Year Zero. 0.0. Rebooting."></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:16:36 GMT" text="Thinking of the new in terms of the old is not productive. "></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:28:59 GMT" text="Wondering how we will continue to do what-we-always-have-done is not going to get us closer to the future way of journalism."></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:17:43 GMT" text="So.. What does this new journalism look like?"></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:43:45 GMT" text="Let's figure it out!"></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:18:03 GMT" text="&lt;img src=&quot;http://images.scripting.com/archiveScriptingCom/2010/01/19/robot.jpg&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; hspace=&quot;15&quot; vspace=&quot;15&quot; alt=&quot;robot&quot;&gt;I was a math major, so I spent a few years in my early adulthood learning how to find true things about conceptual spaces. As you advance through math the world your thoughts occupy gets stranger and more and more unlike the space our bodies occupy. Turns out that was good training for a mind that has to grasp things like journalism with a completely different set of rules."></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:19:52 GMT" text="I remember taking a class in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.math.tulane.edu/courses/400_level.html&quot;&gt;summer school&lt;/a&gt; in a subject called Real Analysis, that's on the road to Topology. It was one of the hardest classes I took, and I got a good grade, at least for me (I was far from one of the best students in my class). The moment of truth was during an exam when I had to prove a theorem and I had no idea how to do it. So I just started out with something I thought was true, that seemed to be on the path, and proved that. Then I proved another thing, and another, and finally I could see how the pieces fit together and was able to prove the theorem. It was a shining moment for me, because I was the only student in the class who solved the problem. So of course I never forgot how I did it."></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:22:31 GMT" text="So let's try the same approach to figure out what the first instance of Journalism 0.0 looks like. Let's start with something we know to be true. "></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:23:45 GMT" text="1. There are fewer paid reporters in Journalism 0.0 than there were in the past."></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:24:09 GMT" text="I think any &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.guterman.com/2010/01/19/ive-been-laid-off/&quot;&gt;reporter&lt;/a&gt; who has been laid off in the last couple of years, and there are a lot of them, many of whom are very smart people, can see that, pretty clearly. Today there are a lot fewer people working in newsrooms than there were in the past."></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:24:39 GMT" text="Now does that mean there will be fewer people doing journalism?"></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:24:53 GMT" text="I hope not!"></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:24:59 GMT" text="Why? Because we have an ever-increasing appetite for new information, i.e. news."></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:25:28 GMT" text="Do you think that appetite will go un-filled? (I don't.)"></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:25:48 GMT" text="So if Postulate #1 is true, and there will be fewer paid reporters in the new journalism, where will the new reporters come from? "></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:26:25 GMT" text="That's the question that's been on my mind for the last decade, since I wrote &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/davenet/2000/02/04/howToMakeMoneyOnTheInterne.html&quot;&gt;How To Make Money On The Internet&lt;/a&gt;. That was almost exactly ten years ago. Where will they come from? Where?"></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:27:14 GMT" text="Stay tuned for the next installment. &quot;;-&gt;&quot;"></outline>
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