Tag Archives: Jeff Jarvis
Notes on Nicholas Carr
Notes on a February 2009 Nicholas Carr article.
Posted in New Media Also tagged Clay Shirky, communication, journalism, Marc Glasberg, micropayments, Nicholas Carr, revolution Comments closed
Jarvis criticizes NYT’s Cohen for his dismissal of Twitter
Jeff Jarvis has a post worth reading over at BuzzMachine. In it, he compares columns about Twitter from two very different journalists: Mike DeArmond, a sports writer from Kansas City, and Roger Cohen, from the New York Times.
I’ll leave DeArmond aside, since he was clearly going for humor in his column. Cohen takes a more [...]
Newspapers need to capitalize on scarcity
Scarcity will drive the news organizations of the future and help them differentiate themselves from all the competition, says Nic Brisbourne, a partner at a European venture capital firm in a post on paidContent.org.
Newspapers, he says, have spent the last few decades enjoying a virtual monopoly on information and advertising distribution, but that monopoly has [...]
Posted in Miscellany Also tagged Chris Anderson, free, journalism, newspaper business models, newspapers, Nic Brisbourne, scarcity Comments closed
Top-down syndication is broken, says Jackie Hai
Jackie Hai:
[T]he AP has failed to grasp is that the evolution of the participatory web has blurred the line between content producers, distributors and consumers to the point where everybody can be any and all of the three. The news wire of the future will not be centralized and top-down, but rather distributed and bottom-up.
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Posted in New Media Also tagged Associated Press, bottom-up, Jackie Hai, syndication, top-down Comments closed
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