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The Editorialiste: Tina Brown and the fight to save journalism
If you're a writer, get out of your comfort zone.
If you're an editor, surround yourself with writers.
And if you're starting an online publication, do so with conviction. It will work.
Eventually.
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If you're a writer, get out of your comfort zone.If you're an editor, surround yourself with writers.And if you're starting an online publication, do so with conviction. It will work.Eventually.
Nicholas Carr's Blog: The writing is on the paywall
Nicholas looks at the future of journalism and the news industry, and tries to figure out of micropayments is the answer. Cites anti-paper arguments from various thinkers, like Clay Shirky and Jeff Jarvis.
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In this environment, you're about as like to be able to charge for an online news story as you are to charge for air. And the overabundance of supply means, as well, an overabundance of advertising inventory. So not only can't you charge for your product, but you can't make decent ad revenues either. Bad times.
Printing The NYT Costs Twice As Much As Sending Every Subscriber A Free Kindle
What we're trying to say is that as a technology for delivering the news, newsprint isn't just expensive and inefficient; it's laughably so.
Kevin Kelly: Universal Access is better than Ownership
An essay by Kevin Kelly about how "all goods and services are candidates for rental, sharing, and the social commons."
Journalism in the Cloud | Placeblogger
Just as many tech outfits have figured out that it's too expensive to have too many fixed assets, many news outlets are faced with the fact that they can't support the same number of foreign correspondents or beat reporters. The fundamental experiment th
Will Work for Praise: The Web's Free-Labor Economy - BusinessWeek
This online business model has Americans happily toiling for attention on for-profit sites that don't pay them money
The Brian Lehrer Show: Working For Free (Jan 13, 2009)
Everyone has a reason that they might work for free, but what does it mean to work for no pay during an economic downturn? Are you an intern or volunteer? Are you working for free just to stay in the building? What job are you working for free and what do
In Silicon Valley, Venture Capitalists Turn Cautious - NYTimes.com
Oh well... Dot.Bomb 2.0. Least we're getting realistic again :)
The New Yorker: Naomi Klein
(via @DoshDosh) The central thesis of the book is that capitalism and democracy, free markets and free people, do not, as we’ve been told, go hand in hand. On the contrary, capitalism—at least fundamentalist capitalism, of the type promoted by the late ec
Higher Education May Soon Be Unaffordable for Most Americans, Report Says - NYTimes.com
The rising cost of college — even before the recession — threatens to put higher education out of reach for most Americans, according to the biennial report from the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education.
New tax law sends Valore Books packing: The Buffalo News
More businesses leaving Buffalo, this time due to Internet taxes. Internet company’s textbook distributors feared being forced to collect sales tax. Poor local economy + Internet tax = what's the point of operating in Buffalo?
Pirates take 'super tanker' towards Somalia - CNN.com
Same gang of Somali pirates who captured that Ukrainian ship with 33 tanks and military weapons. Interestingly, reports have shown that pirate "mother ships" travel far out to sea and launch smaller boats to attack passing vessels, sometimes using rocket-
Game Theory by Prof. Ben Polak — Open Yale Courses
Taught by Prof. Ben Polak, this course is an introduction to game theory and strategic thinking. Ideas such as dominance, backward induction, Nash equilibrium, evolutionary stability, commitment, credibility, asymmetric information, adverse selection, and
Death and Taxes 2009: A Visual Guide to Where Your Federal Tax Dollars Go - WallStats
"Death and Taxes:2009" is a representational poster of the federal discretionary budget; the amount of money that is spent at the discretion of your elected representatives in Congress. Basically, your federal income taxes.
The Trouble with "Free Riding" | Freedom to Tinker
Timothy explains why the "free rider" issue doesn't apply to online creations. There's the fame bit, and more.
Kevin Kelly -- Maxims for the Network Economy
Selected Quotes from New Rules for the New Economy by Kevin Kelly
E-commerce: eBay demolishes "level playing field" for Buy.com
eBay just destroyed itself, short term greed, long term loss.
Little Fuzzy as an award-winning audiobook
Little Fuzzy is a tight science fiction story that epitomizes the golden age of sf. Explores the nature of colonial economies, the deepest questions of consciousness and intelligence, paternalism and self-determination, and the nature of the rule of law.
2012: The Year The Internet Ends
Reminder of the loss of net neutrality. Video's ok, but their illustration is more compelling.
Kimbo Slice Gets His Prime - TIME
From Youtube to Primetime, CBS is now banking on Kevin Ferguson, a mixed martial arts fighter who goes by the stage name of Kimbo Slice, to draw younger viewers, especially men ages 18 to 34.
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