Always on our mind: Where media is going.
Exhibit A: Ted posts on a discussion with Michael Arrington of TechCrunch, who posits that the rapidly advancing abilities of Web 2.0 entities like Memeorandum (and perhaps even The Personal Bee) will doom old media companies stuck in their top-down relationship to audiences and markets. Ted begs to differ, arguing that some of the established companies will get the new paradigm and benefit from it.
Exhibit B: Dan posts on a valuable insight from David Carr of The New York Times on the bedrock value that old media brings to the table in this discussion of the future: "I think people assume that, "Oh, we'll be able to use the web to assemble a portrait of the world beyond our town," and the fact is that Google News or whatever RSS feeder you've got, most of it is just annotating coverage. Somebody has to make phone calls somewhere in order for news to function. ..."
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