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As the media industry consolidates and more and more people are simply linking to news – you might start to wonder where all the news is going to come from. There’s a great quote that was passed along to me by Jordan that goes:
what no one seems to understand is [...]
I reread this morning Clay Shirky’s great SXSW piece about the media business and i wanted to share some of his thoughts here. Let me go through the end of the article a bit. He starts:
Elizabeth Eisenstein’s magisterial treatment of Gutenberg’s invention, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change, opens with a [...]
As everyone talks about the death of newspapers, i’d like to remark on one of the majors elements in this death spiral: Craigslist. To me the two major killers of the newspaper are:
Decrease of authority & differentiation
Lack of classified revenue
First, the decrease in authority and differentiation. Every web site and publication needs to be an [...]
I’ve heard a lot of talk about the decline of print media these days. There were great speeches by Clay Shirky and Steven Johnson at SXSW. Recently there was news of Conde Nast’s Portfolio magazine shutting down after plowing through $100 million in two years. Some people have used this as an indication of the [...]
As I’ve been talking about all over this blog, traditional media is on the decline (here and here). Papers are on their way out and everyone knows it. Ever since i was a kid, I’ve always loved the local sports pages but one thing I’ve been doing for the past few years is reading sports [...]
