Yet another News Corporation executive is talking about Google, and yet again, I feel like they have no concept about how Google interacts with their web pages.
Since April 2007, New York magazine has posted online sex diaries.
Last week, Coventry University ran a video conference whose title asked, “Is World Journalism in Crisis?” Jeremy Paxman appeared, as did I. “Crisis is a journalistic word,” he said.
Google has seen its fair share of troubles in China, from having its flagship search engine blocked to being scolded for peddling pornography. Last week, the Chinese Written Works Copyright Society accused the company of infringing the rights of Chinese authors through its Google Books project.
It’s a clash of civilizations: the paywalls are rising again, Rupert’s on a rampage against the Internetz, and the subtext is none too subtle.
It’s a face-off between new and traditional media at the Web 2.0 Summit.
Representing new media, in a discussion over the future of journalism, are Federated Media’s John Battelle; Marissa Mayer, who leads Google’s search services and consumer products like Chrome; and Huffington Post CEO Eric Hippeau. Arthur Sulzberger Jr., publisher of the New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal’s top editor, Robert Thomson, stand in for the old guard.
There are a lot of new technologies which already affect news consumption and future business models.
You’d think selling subscriptions within iPhone applications would appeal to media companies: It’s a model that promises recurring revenue streams, and it matches up nicely with the way they’ve always done business in print.
Here’s a cautionary tale in how not to manage your message in a networked media age, or rather, further evidence of John Gilmore’s brilliant maxim, “The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.”
We’ve already covered how Rupert Murdoch has flip flopped his position on free online news, but his recent foray into blaming search engines and aggregators is really reaching the height of hypocrisy.
If the iPhone is the “Jesus phone,” it now appears as if the still-sheathed Apple tablet may become the “Jesus reader.”
The FTC is planning public hearings aimed at figuring out how to prop up dying newspapers.
By now, there’s no need to repeat the backstory of Breaking News Online to the news junkies among us, especially those of us on Twitter and iPhone.
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