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Defenestrating Denton
Like anyone in education, I never procrastinate today over what I can vacillate about tomorrow. And so it is with my estimation of Nick Denton, Gawker’s own Marquis de Sard. I admire Denton’s blog empire, and his hard-headed approach to posting ($7.50 per 1,000 views), and yet it’s obvious too that his own role in…
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Destruction. Creative, or just destructive?
Three things had me thinking, as I re-read Old Media Seek To Know Google Not Just Fear It: The genius of Google has been to couple search and advertising more effectively than anyone else. Its key word and contextual ad placements – mimicked by other Internet companies – have been nibbling away at the revenue…
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Lawyers: the necessary brake on media innovation?
Marc Andreessen remarked recently a propos the internet and the media, that most car companies didn’t emerge from horse carriage making. Admittedly that summary misrepresents the long period of development of a whole host of automobile-related technologies: fuel processing, engine development, machine tools. Reuters boss – and former lawyer – Tom Glocer has another take,…
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No Country for Old Newspapers
The Albuquerque Tribune shut down today. As its own report of its demise mournfully notes: The Trib’s daily circulation in January was about 9,600…In 1988, the newspaper sold about 42,000 copies a day. It was founded by a muckraker who came up with the motto for the Scripps newspaper chain: “Give Light and the People…