About a year ago, I and many others suggested making an iTunes for newspapers but we see now that that might not be such a great idea considering the music industry and a million other blog posts about paying for stories. iTunes also would prohibit the type of content possible and revenue potential considering Apple would ...
So instead, news needs to find a way to create something that doesn't only help the journalist, but helps thousands of other unpaid creative people. uNews must be for more than news. It must be for all creative endeavours. It must be for InnoCentive.com, it must be for people who want to make money off of ...
Google operates, at this point in time, as if the Web is the be-all-end-all of communication. If the Web disappeared Google would die. Consider this more carefully. Google's entire operation is Web based. News, however, is cross-platform: TV, radio, Web, paper. If the Web died, news would survive. That's an important distinction. Google is not inventing ...
As most of you know there’s an interesting debate about using an iNews/iTunes model of journalism to in fact save journalism. A lot of the main ideaists are talking about it as a business model while Shirky is the leader in why it’s a bad idea. I posit that iNews (or uNews as I’m calling ...
I’m responding to a fellow young blogger who listed the Top 10 reasons why publications should not charge readers in micropayments. The basic tenents are: Nothing beats free. This completely compromises the link economy. It’s very 2000. It’s uncreative. It’s failed in the past. Micropayments puts open-source journalism years behind. It’s never been done before. ...
David Carr of The New York Times is either an asshole or genius. He discusses the idea of making an iTunes for distributing news and information (click here for Michael Hogan's take). Wow, it's about time. [...] ...