I believe that blogs will replace newspapers in the same way that Britney Spears-type music replaces jazz or classical, or Jack in the Box replaces home cooked meals.
Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
· 1 year ago
I didn't say blogs will replace newspapers.
I did say that online news organizations and blogs have a much more efficient business model, and heritage media would do well to emulate that or be phased out.
blink4blog
· 1 year ago
1. I agrees the newspaper printed copy will be slowly phased out anytime or perhaps news agency prefer to make online news subscription become their main stream of income instead. But eventually in this world, there are still places and people who prefer to carry a stack of paper rather than a lappy for morning breakfast news reading unless the lappy is coffee or waterproofed.
2. Music will never be phased out by Britney's conquer as the internet does not leverage on music but information. The fundamental of the Net still very much emphasis on information sharing (duplication of bits and bytes) as music is just part of the media (not the industry itself). Who knows I might be wrong that there is no more Tower Records on the street and artist/singers would never been seen on the street either, their home have to accommodate a recording studio.
3. There are something that the Net will never able to replace, IMHO: money, food, transportation of goods and church.
My 2 cents.
P/S: The picture above speaks the article. Well posted!
Anonymous
· 1 year ago
What I mean is that blogs cater to the lowest common denominator with their decreased standards for language, facts, decency and original content (the investigative activities of bloggers compared to print journalists are superficial at best) and their tendencies towards sensationalism and egoism.
Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
· 1 year ago
The failure points you mention there are not monopolized by the blogosphere.
Fox News.
Need I say more?
If you need more proof, check out the stellar accuracy records of the LA Times, NY Post, and Air America (just to pick some random organizations out of a hat).
Anonymous
· 1 year ago
Newspapers have been around for centuries and 24 hour news has been around for what, a decade? What do you mean by new and old media?
Tom Foremski
· 1 year ago
Wow! Thank you for taking the time, and ten times my original piece in length to prove me wrong and failing so spectacularly. I guess Mashable doesn't care about the quality of its content.
-I quoted Valleywag because that's where I saw it first, nothing wrong with that.
-People still think of GOOG as a technology company, just because you found a reference to someone talking about blogger means nothing. Google continues to be thought of as a tech company by most people.And it thinks of itself as a tech company.
- Google profits from Google news by sending traffic to sites that use AdSense.
-Not profiting from a service doesn't mean they don't hurt the profits of other companies. It''s like saying Craigslist only makes money from job ads and therefore has no effect on the classified advertising business of newspapers.
- Yes, "heritage" media has a lot to blame for missing the boat in many ways but even if it hadn't missed the boat, even if it had been blogging etc,years before, it wouldn't help. That's because the online business model is much poorer than the "heritage" business model. "They can't get there from here" is the way I like to explain it because online advertising and other online revenue opportunities can't support the "heritage" costs of media. Google and others have helped to create very low cost online advertising and thus set the price of advertising online. Google and its ilk doesn't want editors or journalists it uses software and servers. "Heritage" media can't compete against that model.
- Yes, millions of bloggers, a veritable citizen journalist army will replace the old media! Wow, you really believe all this "emerging" media stuff don't you! Good luck.
Laura M
· 1 year ago
"Heritage" media will continue to thrive, especially those who are moving to a content distribution model through APIs. Look who has announced this move and gets it - and its not too late - NPR, NYT, Guardian, The Telegraph....all have announced an API strategy. The new model on the web is really about finding ways to leverage the content whether you are a blogger or otherwise - destination sites are dead. New media, old media, you need to distribute content to people and partners at the point and time they want to consume it and how they want to consume it. The story was told well by Brad Stone in his post yesterday "API Bug Hits Old Retail and Old Media".
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I did say that online news organizations and blogs have a much more efficient business model, and heritage media would do well to emulate that or be phased out.
2. Music will never be phased out by Britney's conquer as the internet does not leverage on music but information. The fundamental of the Net still very much emphasis on information sharing (duplication of bits and bytes) as music is just part of the media (not the industry itself). Who knows I might be wrong that there is no more Tower Records on the street and artist/singers would never been seen on the street either, their home have to accommodate a recording studio.
3. There are something that the Net will never able to replace, IMHO: money, food, transportation of goods and church.
My 2 cents.
P/S: The picture above speaks the article. Well posted!
Fox News.
Need I say more?
If you need more proof, check out the stellar accuracy records of the LA Times, NY Post, and Air America (just to pick some random organizations out of a hat).
-I quoted Valleywag because that's where I saw it first, nothing wrong with that.
-People still think of GOOG as a technology company, just because you found a reference to someone talking about blogger means nothing. Google continues to be thought of as a tech company by most people.And it thinks of itself as a tech company.
- Google profits from Google news by sending traffic to sites that use AdSense.
-Not profiting from a service doesn't mean they don't hurt the profits of other companies. It''s like saying Craigslist only makes money from job ads and therefore has no effect on the classified advertising business of newspapers.
- Yes, "heritage" media has a lot to blame for missing the boat in many ways but even if it hadn't missed the boat, even if it had been blogging etc,years before, it wouldn't help. That's because the online business model is much poorer than the "heritage" business model. "They can't get there from here" is the way I like to explain it because online advertising and other online revenue opportunities can't support the "heritage" costs of media. Google and others have helped to create very low cost online advertising and thus set the price of advertising online. Google and its ilk doesn't want editors or journalists it uses software and servers. "Heritage" media can't compete against that model.
- Yes, millions of bloggers, a veritable citizen journalist army will replace the old media! Wow, you really believe all this "emerging" media stuff don't you! Good luck.