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Just got around to watching this. It’s a good discussion of trying to build an online video experience that is best for both the user and the advertiser. For a little more information on the study check out the full article.
Just came across this older post from Kyle Neath:
Maybe it’s me, but the answer seems so clear in my head. We have thousands of unemployed journalists. Good journalists. We have VCs ready to hand out money for a shit sandwich. We have a proven business model. Why don’t I see a flurry of journalistic startups? Get rid of the cruft of the newsroom, give power to the reporters and content producers.
Stop trying trying to grasp onto idiotic ideas like “social news” or stabbing blindly at twitter in hopes of saving an archaic organizational structure. People aren’t buying printed newspapers? Stop printing them. People only want to read their news online? Let them read it online.
America needs to stop concentrating on how to save our dying industries and start concentrating on how to create the next booming industries. Isn’t that what the American dream is all about, anyways?
Sounds like a plan to me.
From Steve Woodward on the Nozzl Media blog:
We’ve gotten more than 60 responses to our survey on a next-generation “newspaper,” and I wanted to share the preliminary results, which are revealing. The feature that people crave most is a filter. People want less information, not more. But they want that information to be relevant, not noise.
This is just part of what I was trying to get at earlier with my post on minimalism. Good to see it’s supported by user feedback.
From the always good Seth Godin:
Isn’t it odd that were willing to spend $300,000 to buy an accredited but ultimately useless academic line on our resume, but we hesitate to do a month of hard work to create a chunk of experience thats priceless?
This is the whole reason why I got involved with CoPress. Even when I wasn’t an actual team member it was fun work that taught me invaluable lessons about the web, college media, and small companies. I wouldn’t trade it for a thing.
From the otherwise stellar Seed Magazine article on organic foods:
So here we have a nicely delimited study of available research with rigorous standards and a fairly worded conclusion, all publicly available to download and read on the FSA website.
Well if it’s so publicly available and downloadable then why can’t you take the time to link to it? The author (web editor?) took the time to go through and link to such blogs as Food Politics, Matthew Yglesias, and more but linking to the study that the article centers around? No, that’d be too much to ask.
Published in the New York Times yesterday:
In the rapidly evolving college textbook market, one of the nation’s largest textbook publishers, Cengage Learning, announced Thursday that it would start renting books to students this year, at 40 percent to 70 percent of the sale price.
Then, if you read a little further down the article you come across this:
Besides giving students a new option, rentals give both publishers and textbook authors a way to continue earning money from their books after the first sale, something they do not get from the sale of used textbooks.
Bingo, there’s the rationale behind why these book publishers are doing this: they’re hoping for a renewable revenue stream.
No, it doesn’t seem as though the publishers have suddenly found a soul and decided to stop gouging students on books, it’s just that they’re going to gouge them in a slightly different way and under the guise of providing a more economical option to the student.
Robert Wright brings up a great point on The Daily Dish:
In Palin’s fantasy, the death-panel “bureaucrats” were going to pick winners and losers based on a judgment about their “level of productivity in society.” Well, if you view income as a gauge of a person’s productivity in society—and God knows there are Republicans who do—then the quality of health care is already correlated with “productivity in society.” Obama’s plan, by making health care more affordable to lower income people, would make that less true.
And Google keeps pushing me further and further away from ever returning to using Google Reader for my feeds. For a company that keeps its search so minimal it’s amazing how bloated some of their other offerings get.
I’m not a MobileMe user but to me this sounds like a great idea:
It certainly suggests though that a community wiki of some sort is in order, some kind of centralized resource that can help us all cope with the very real — and very frustrating — disruptions that, for many of us, are part and parcel of dealing with MobileMe. Of course, the mere existence of such a thing would be a damning indictment of Apple’s efforts with this product, and perhaps it might spur the company to pay some real attention to these problems after all. But I’m less interested in that than I am in a support net for users like myself; like I said, at this point it’s folly to hope for any meaningful help from our friends in Cupertino. With MobileMe, Apple is the absentee landlord, so to speak, and we tenants only have each other.
I do think that it would take some serious guts from Apple to do this, but the existence of such a wiki would make me more inclined to foot the annual bill for the service.
