I thought of Rachel and Anne-Marie’s Online NW presentation just now because I was playing with Media Cloud, which is trying to quantify the discussion about “traditional media” vs. “derivative media”.

Ethan Zuckerman (again with him today!) talks about the new project from Harvard’s Berkman Center in a 20+ minute video. Trying to watch the un-synced video is maddening, but it makes a good podcast.

In describing Media Cloud as “inexact measures of really big data sets”, Zuckerman says, “In a some ways, expensive measurements of small data sets is another form of anecdote”.

Zoinks!