Media
No matter how far it pulls back the camera is still occupying a position. We can’t actually take the “view from nowhere,” but this doesn’t mean that objectivity is a lie or an illusion. Jay Rosen in his Questions and Answers, on objective v/s good journalism
Content
The problem isn’t that magazines and newspapers are greedy or badly run, but that the demand for their content and the economics that fund it have shifted so far away from what they do. Marco Arment, visionairy software developer, concluding his blogpost The New-World Economy of a Modern Magazine
Open
The question about pay walls is whether they are the *best* way to make the *most* money. Jeff Jarvis, with a great list of Hard economic lessons for news
Media
They’re bloated, user-unfriendly and map to a tired pattern of mass media brands trying vainly to establish beachheads on new platforms without really understanding the platforms at all. Khoi Vinh, on iPad Magazine Apps
Media
People like to consume. They also like to produce. And they like to share. ... Media that’s targeted at you, but does not include you, may not be worth sitting still for. Clay Shirky telling about the cognitive surplus and why television helped masking it
Media
a confused view of the web, [is] that you never want to send people to another site, because (incorrectly) that means fewer page views on your own site Techdirt: Why Do Newspapers So Rarely Link Out?