A new computer program that writes news stories may find itself dueling with a new computer program that detects fake stories. Or, they may learn from each other. Steve Lohr, writing in The New York Times, describes the new writing program developed by Narrative Science in conjunction with Northwestern University. Stories produced by the program… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Road Ahead
Creeping Towards Conformity
Aaron Barr reports in Media Daily, “According to research company Strategy Analytics, 13% of U.S. households will participate in bundled offerings that include fixed voice, Internet, television and mobile voice services by 2016.” That’s a fourfold increase over the current levels, says Ben Piper, director of Multiplay Market Dynamics for Strategy Analytics. . . …. Continue Reading
Is A Car A Mobile Device?
Waltzing in the clouds with our disembodied awareness is a likelihood with problematic results. On the one hand, it can expand our consciousness by making it easier to wirelessly store and retrieve data through any device that provides Internet access. On the other hand, it will hasten what Cori Ferman terms “the Mediapocalypse.” Not the… Continue Reading
Musings From An Automotive Dinosaur
Comparing the starting of a blog with the starting of a traditional career in print media, I say that the single most important difference is that the traditional guys had to earn their way into the business.
The Road Ahead: I Want It Now
The market forces re-shaping our media need not result in the fears James Fallows described in The Atlantic Monthly and quoted in last month’s Autowriters Newsletter. Paraphrased they are: An age of lies, idiocy and a complete Babel of “truthiness.” Failure to adequately cover much of what really matters. A society pulverized into granules and… Continue Reading