Comments on: A simple solution to online newspaper advertising

By: PickettBill

PickettBill — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:18:28 +0000

The issue is that the people who still care will cover the news. The White House in a desperate bid to stay relevant will send their news to those bloggers who seed stories ;) From there it is network effects. There are many reasons to not cry for the demise of traditional reporting methods, one of those reasons is the control implicit in the relationship. I’m not impressed with it, but that’s another topic! :D

By: James

James — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:47:43 +0000

Yes, but there will still be a need for full time journalists. Who else will sit around the White House or Capitol Hill. Who else will do the interviews and the investigations. We all have jobs and so there is fairly limited time for news gathering.

By: PickettBill

PickettBill — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:23:04 +0000

The Internet is a tsunami that is sweeping over many industries. What will be left when we have completed the transition will be seen but I personally don’t have a lot of faith that traditional client-server news reporting styles will remain. What I see emerging from network effects is decentralized news. Your blog for example. It is a datum and that datum is aggregated together with others to become a feed. Others can then filter those feeds to pull out noteworthy stories and further categorize them by interest. Even others can subscribe to these “meta” feeds of better refined information then categorize anew and the network can grow however deep as you like in that pattern. You as a consumer and simultaneously a producer of news point your feed reading software to the sources you trust and each of us together provide blocks to the whole. In this model, there is no need for mega-corporations to tell you what to think, instead it is neighbor to neighbor with lots and lots of invisible markup, and a big chunk of artificial intelligence for spam removal, in between.