January, 2009 Archive

January 25th

Why local-news aggregation is useful information, not information overload

by Josh Korr  |   View Comments

My post on the Washington state linking project focused on the awesome innovation involved and on the benefits of collaborative linking in general. But the project also shows why this kind of news aggregation is so useful for a local audience.
The biggest danger with news aggregation is that instead of acting as a filter, it [...]

January 9th

Networked link journalism: A revolution quietly begins in Washington state

by Josh Korr  |   View Comments

The discussion about journalism’s future so often focuses on Big Changes — Kill the print edition! Flips for everyone! Reinvent business models NOW! — that it’s easy to forget how simple innovation can be.
Sometimes all you need is a few Tweets, a bunch of links, and some like-minded pioneers.
That’s how a quiet revolution began in [...]

January 7th

The Problem of Media Economics: Value Equations Have Radically Changed

by Scott Karp  |   View Comments

Entering 2009, the future of media is undoubtedly a quandary, with no end of head-scratching across the industry. As with everything these days, it seems that it all comes down to radically changing economics. There are way too many conversations about the future of media, news, journalism, etc. going on out there that don’t reference [...]

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