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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…
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Newspapers – slow and in denial
I am a sucker for defunct browser maker Marc Andreessen’s hip-shooting style. Here he is giving both barrels to the New York Times. [HT: sans serif] Andreessen: Take the New York Times. They are slow and they are in denial. After 15 years of the Internet, their online division – though it has been very…
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A dot on the BBC map of the world
Enterprising young BBC journo Stuart Pinfold has produced a nice map showing how impressively broad is the BBC’s network of international coverage. Correspondents, reporters and stringers show up on the map as little dots and triangles. So what does it feel like to be a dot on the map: Funny that my name is on…