Andreessen’s Advice To Old Media: “Burn The Boats” | Erick Schonfeld, TechCrunch, 6/3/10
Legend has it that when Cortes landed in Mexico in the 1500s, he ordered his men to burn the ships that had brought them there to remove the possibility of doing anything other than going forward into the unknown. Marc Andreessen has the same advice for old media companies: “Burn the boats.”
The Reconstruction of American Journalism | Leonard Downie y Michael Schudson, 20/10/09
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The Internet and the Recession | Lee Rainie / Aaron Smith, Pew Internet, 19/7/09
More than two-thirds of Americans – 69% – have used the internet to help them with personal economic issues that have arisen in the recession and to gather information about the origins and solutions to national economic problems. That amounts to 88% of the adult internet users in the country.
New media vs. old media: A portrait of the Drudge Report 2002-2008 | Kalev Leetaru, First Monday, 6/7/09
In 2006, Time Magazine named Matt Drudge one of its Time 100, the “100 men and women whose power, talent, or moral example is transforming our world” (Cox, 2006). Later that year, the Washington Post noted that its “largest driver of traffic is Matt Drudge,” (Hirshman, 2006) while a 2005 CNET article chronicled the rise of Breitbart.com after the Drudge Report chose it as its preferred wire service provider (Sandoval, 2005). ABC News’ political director called the site “a force in the political news cycle for both the press and the campaigns,” while the 2004 Republican National Committee’s communications director stated that “no single person is more relevant to shaping the media environment in a political campaign” (Rutenberg, 2007). The site is often called an agenda–setter for the mainstream media, with one CBS executive claiming “Drudge is like a megaphone in the cyber–world. Other news organizations and Web sites take their cue from him” (Sappell, 2007). Its presence is felt even across the ocean, with the British newspaper the Telegraph reporting over one million hits to its site after Drudge linked to one of its stories (Thurman, 2007).
Is scientific publishing about to be disrupted? (Michael Nielsen, 29/6/09)
Part I: How Industries Fail
Until three years ago, the oldest company in the world was the construction company Kongo Gumi, headquartered in Osaka, Japan. Kongo Gumi was founded in 578 CE when the then-regent of Japan, Prince Shotoku, brought a member of the Kongo family from Korea to Japan to help construct the first Buddhist temple in Japan, the Shitenno-ji. The Kongo Gumi continued in the construction trade for almost one and a half thousand years. In 2005, they were headed by Masakazu Kongo, the 40th of his family to head Kongo Gumi. The company had more than 100 employees, and 70 million dollars in revenue. But in 2006, Kongo Gumi went into liquidation, and its assets were purchased by Takamatsu Corporation. Kongo Gumi as an independent entity no longer exists.
The New York Times envisions version 2.0 of the newspaper (Zachary M Seward, Nieman Journalism Lab, 11/5/09)
The New York Times Co.’s research and development group has some of the best views in their midtown skyscraper — 24 floors above the newsrooms, higher even than the executives’ suites. Developers in the core R&D group — with titles like “lead creative technologist” and, my favorite, “futurist-in-residence” — are charged by the brass 14 floors below them with anticipating how news will next be consumed.
The Death & Birth of News (Superkiy, Current.com)
Student views on modernizing j-education (Associate Collegiate Press Conference, San Diego, California, 1/3/09)
Los 100 mejores blogs de la web en inglés y en castellano (Ángel Jiménez, El Mundo, 1/3/09)
Tal vez la crisis haya acabado con las ganas y la posibilidad de salir a comprar, pero no parece que haya tenido un efecto negativo sobre esa burbuja siempre en expansión que llamamos blogosfera. Cada día, casi un millón de voces gritan desde ella a los cuatro vientos de la Red. Ésa es la cifra media de posts que Technorati, el índice más extenso de blogs, ha calculado que se escriben en las 24 horas de un día.