The concern, in short, is that the Internet will kill the goose that lays the golden egg. But this is unlikely. If online viewers want the level of news and opinion that print reporters generate, the Internet news services will hire reporters, defraying the cost out of their online advertising revenues, which will be greater for an Internet news service that attracts additional viewers by offering them richer, newspaper-type fare. Indeed, long after newspapers like the New York Times and the Washington Post have ceased print publication, their Web sites may be among the leading Internet news services.
Richard Posner on Newspapers
1 July 2008
25 May 2008
Let me ask you something in all confidence, when was the last time you felt you belonged to the community of print publications? The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, how about USAToday? All reputable and well written/researched publications. All in the business of delivering news. Yet, even as they have opened their blogs to comments, I would be hard pressed to call many of the commenters members of a community.
Conversation Agent on Communities
23 May 2008
The big news today is that Twitter was up for short period, before once again going down. So that was a little sarcastic, but news of Twitter being down simply isn’t news anymore. There has been another round (seemingly never ending now) of Twitter whinging but not enough discussion around the solution. Given that Twitter is so useless that even they don’t know what’s wrong with their own service, it’s time for someone to kill Twitter.
The Inquisitr on Twitter
29 April 2008
Geeks are by far more influential than any other online contingency, except the big media. Geeks pass the puck from Twitter to blogs back to Twitter. Eventually it hits Techmeme, Saul Hansell at the Times takes notice and then the whole world knows.
Micro Persuasion on Geeks