ReadWriteWeb: Journalism 2.0: Don’t Throw Out the Baby
Saturday, 2 May 2009, 09:47
"To a techie, 'content' is just something to throw in a software system. Content creators don't talk about 'content.' They talk about their art or craft. Journalism is a form of art, albeit closer to craft than art. To a techie, art is just content. Which is more important, code or art? If you had to choose between a world without computers or a world without art, which would you choose?"
Thursday, 10 January 2008, 10:57
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Charles Arthur: "I know that we keep hearing that "content is king". But … t it won’t be the content creators who’ll have the chokehold; it’ll be the controllers of the distribution channels. In other words, distribution, not content, is king."
Thursday, 16 August 2007, 23:40
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Interesting roundup of the debate stirred up by Henry Blodge’s post "Why Newspapers Are Screwed".
Monday, 6 August 2007, 15:05
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Seamus McCauley yawns at Newer: "Vin Crosbie’s most recent manifesto… once more points out that the issue with online news is not at the presentation level but the content level. Lumping that content together in yet another new way".
Wednesday, 2 May 2007, 17:24
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Seamus McCauley reiterates that content creation is not the source of value in newspapers: "Think about it this way – if content creation the source of value why … are newspaper owners so rich and journalists not?"
