I recently came across this video again – and thought it was worth sharing. It is a great way of explaining some of the massive changes that are sweeping through the information economy. It finishes with a very pertinent question: are we ready? Enjoy!
Bill Keller, the Executive Editor of the New York Times, made a speech to his staff last week, in which he addressed issues of concern – such as paid content. During this, he outlined the 7 digital priorites for the NYT.
They are the following:
the future role of Times Topics and other “living articles”
openness [...]
We have been thinking and experimenting a lot recently with news delivery, and I’ve come to the conclusion that Wikipedia has already solved many of the issues of news delivery. Ok, it wouldn’t pass the criteria of the NYT’s design department, but it provides a working reference for how we should look at news interfaces.
Last [...]
Quick post on something I only found out about a few weeks ago:
Google has a program to allow publishers with paywalls to include their results in Google’s rankings, whilst allowing searchers to read the article they click off to for free.
I’m sure most publishers considering paid content have seen this, but for those who haven’t…
It’s [...]
A huge amount has been said about Google’s latest move in its love-hate relationship with content publishers. There is no need to repeat that all here, so if you haven’t already, see the following:
Paidcontent with a good overview of the product.
Techspheres with a somewhat overblown reaction about how it will kill the newspaper industry.
Read Write [...]
Its a sad story, but one we must learn from. Businessweek was founded in 1929, and by the 1990’s was seeing a circulation of more than 1 million people. It used to carry more advertising pages than any other US magazine (up to 6000 pages in 2000), and was a profitable, valuable, and well-regarded publishing [...]
After reading this fantastic post on the Future of Journalism blog, I’ve been inspired to collect together the best quotes about this emotive issue. With no further delay, here is The Future of News: In quotes.
The basics:
Clay Shirky explaining the desire of news audiences to share content:
When a 14 year old kid can blow up [...]
Communication over instant messenger tend to be continous and casual, with ebbs and flows, rather than discrete conversations. Wikipedia has changed encyclopedias from being static and authored, to dynamic and crowdsourced, with popular pages usually containing references that are correct up the very day of viewing. Facebook claims to be the biggest media company in [...]
Several people have asked me recently for suggestions on good sources of news and analysis regarding the future of the media industry. So I have bundled up my favourite feeds on this topic into an OPML file, which you can import into Google Reader, or any other feed reader (see below for details).
The OPML file [...]
Having been in startups for 5 years, and with lots of friends running small, disruptive tech businesses, I tend to find most interesting media developments to come from these companies. So I was very impressed when I was browsing the NYT today and saw on the sidebar a list of articles that had been chosen [...]
