The Economist: Newspapers and technology: Network effects |
Saturday, 19 December 2009, 13:10
"The internet is shaking up the news business, as the telegraph did; in the same way, mankind will be better informed about his fellow humans than before. If paper editions die, then Bennett’s prediction that communications technology would be the death of newspapers will be belatedly proved right. But that is not the same as the death of news."
Howard Owens: Newspapers started small, cheap and with different standards
Thursday, 25 June 2009, 09:16
"[If] it took newspapers more than 100 years to build the business and content models that we all now cherish, why do we expect a fully formed online model to emerge in just 10 years?"
Reflections of a Newsosaur: Don’t blame Google for newspaper woes
Saturday, 18 April 2009, 08:36
Alan Mutter: "Google isn’t responsible for saving the newspaper industry or journalism. Publishers and editors are. … For the record, newspapers actually had a head start over Google. But Google “got” the web. And newspapers didn’t. That’s not Google’s fault."
YouTube: 1981 primitive Internet report on KRON
Friday, 30 January 2009, 01:23
A TV news report about the (very) early experiments with online news delivery by the San Francisco Examiner and other US newspapers on Compuserve.
Wednesday, 16 July 2008, 23:05
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"[P]owerful economic forces, forces that are vastly more complicated than the simplistic drivel about newspaper curmudgeons and their resistance to change, are behind the news industry’s malaise today."
Saturday, 17 May 2008, 12:38
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Douglas Adams: "During [the twentieth] century we have for the first time been dominated by non-interactive forms of entertainment: cinema, radio, recorded music and television."
Saturday, 29 December 2007, 23:51
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WSJ managing ed Paul Steiger: "Next week I move over to a nonprofit called Pro Publica as president and editor-in-chief. When fully staffed, we will be a team of 24 journalists dedicated to reporting on abuses of power by anyone with power"
Monday, 16 July 2007, 12:25
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Scott Rosenberg: "The hunt for “the first blog” or “the day blogging started” will be in vain. Like many significant phenomena in our world, blogging does not have a single point of origin."
