#Irene
It’ll be an interesting 24 hours coming up.
For those of you whose Tumblr dashboard isn’t already filled with hurricane news, our curated stream of all things Irene is here.
BRYCE DOT VC: Ten Years of Innovation Highlighted in One Night
On the morning of September 11, 2001 I walked into my living room, flipped on the TV and saw scenes playing out in NYC that I will never forget. Both local stations and cable outlets were a buzz with speculation, stories and facts as they became available. As I drove to my office that morning…
Incredible how much has changed in ten years.
CHART OF THE DAY: The New York Times’ Delusional Digital Pricing Scheme
Context for the insanity. The only comps available in news are financial news because people only pay for financial news. I thought everyone knew that by now.
Jeff Jarvis: How NOT To Save the News Business
If the FTC wants to reinvent journalism, perhaps it should align with news’ disruptors. But there’s none of that in this report. The word blog is used but once in 35 pages of text—and then only in a parenthetical mention of soccer blogs. Discussion of investing in technology comes on the last page in a suggestion about tools for “improved electronic note-taking.”
I testified before these untechnocrats and told them about my research at CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism into the emerging ecosystem of news. We found profitable hyperlocal bloggers selling $200,000 in ads per year. And we built new, less expensive business models for news (at newsinnovation.com). But that’s not mentioned, either.
Instead, the FTC staff declares defeat in the search for business models so it may explore many government interventions…
From Elian Gonzalez and the falling man to Usain Bolt and the Somali pirates, The Big Picture’s attempt to sum up the decade in 50 photographs. (I tried to pick one that wasn’t depressing.)
