Continuations

Two days ago I wrote a post explaining why I am bullish on crowdfunding and skeptical on micropayments as an alternative to funding content, especially journalism. The explanation was a bit dry and abstract, but in the comments I provided a more concrete example that seemed to resonate, so here it is:Would you pay $2 for a joke you haven’t heard yet? No because you don’t know if it will be funny. What is your incentive to pay after you have heard the joke? It is much diminished. What about 1 ...

Yesterday, the New York Times ran a story that described the paper’s strategy as trying to be the Last Man Standing. Nicholas Carr today picked up on that in his post on newspapers today and writes:Make sure you have enough cash to ride out the storm, trim your spending, defend your quality and your brand, expand into the new kinds of products and services that the web makes possible and that serve to expand your reader base. And then sit tight and wait for your weaker competitors to fail.He ...

“The revolution wil not be televised” is a line from a great Public Enemy song. I think it is safe to say that the revolution will be tweeted and flickrd and blogged. Yesterday’s miraculous “splash landing” demonstrated that some of the best early coverage, including photographs and links to information about bird strikes could all be found within minutes of the event on Twitter. I am also convinced that some of the best analyses of what actually happened and who did what to help avert a disa...