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The End Of Hand Crafted Content
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Old media loves nothing quite so much as writing about their own impending death. And we always enjoy adding our own two cents – the AP not knowing what YouTube is, the NYTimes guys reading TechCrunch every day, etc.
Speaking broadly, I like what Reuters, Rupert Murdoch and Eric Schmidt are saying: the industry [...]
Author Sherman Alexie’s Rants On Colbert Against Ebooks, Piracy And ‘Open Source Culture’
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On last night’s Colbert Report, author Sherman Alexie spent most of the interview ranting against digital books and how “piracy” was destroying the book business. The whole thing was odd not just because of how uninformed it was, but also because he seemed to contradict himself multiple times. I haven’t read any of [...]
There Are Lots Of Ways To Fund Journalism
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As various folks in the news business (and outside of it) continue to fret about how it could be possible to ever fund the production of news, some are taking more positive looks at the space. Jay Rosen has listed out 18 different sources of subsidies for funding journalism (or journalism-like) work. Some [...]
Google Working On Micropayment Scheme To Help Newspapers Commit Suicide Faster
Is Google handing newspaper execs the rope with which to hang themselves?
Alarm sounded over game futures
A stark warning about the finances of the games industry has been aired at the Edinburgh Interactive conference.
The sector had suffered “significant disruption” to its business model










































