Tag Archives: David Carr

Why Twitter Will Endure

By Michael Becker | Published: January 2, 2010
At first, Twitter can be over­whelm­ing, but think of it as a river of data rush­ing past that I dip a cup into every once in a while. via nytimes.com David Carr writes that Twitter is more like Internet “plumb­ing” than a fad, a ser­vice with some­thing for every­body that only gets bet­ter the more peo­ple [...]
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What about the New York Times?

By Michael Becker | Published: May 17, 2009
David Carr has a col­umn in the New York Times in which he spec­u­lates about the future of the New York Times. He starts off with a dis­claimer, telling us that he’s not privy to the con­ver­sa­tions at the upper, busi­ness lev­els of the com­pany and then walks us through the gos­sip and spec­u­la­tion sur­round­ing [...]
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iTunes not a money maker and wouldn’t be for news

By Michael Becker | Published: January 19, 2009
The other day, I spent a good half an hour jot­ting down my idea as to what an “iTunes for news” would really look like. Now, after read­ing a post by Pat Thornton, I’m start­ing to think I wasted my time. Thornton points out that Apple has stated that iTunes doesn’t turn a huge profit. The [...]
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iTunes for news: A quickly thought-up model

By Michael Becker | Published: January 17, 2009
Admittedly, I haven’t read any­thing about David Carr’s iTunes for news idea since the days imme­di­ately fol­low­ing the column’s release in the New York Times on Jan. 11. I don’t know where the state of the con­ver­sa­tion is at this point, but I’m going to write this anyhow. A dis­claimer before we go on. The [...]
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More TriCityNews reaction

By Michael Becker | Published: December 26, 2008
Pat Thornton at The Journalism Iconoclast reacts to Anil Dash’s post about TriCityNews. Dash, you may recall, won­ders whether the alt weekly is really a “news“paper at all or just an adspace. Thornton agrees with Dash and chides the New York Times article’s author, David Carr, for “not prov­ing that the triC­i­tyNews serves its com­mu­nity [...]
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