“In any profession, … members have a tendency to equate provisional solutions to particular problems with deep truths about the world”
In any profession, particularly one that has existed long enough that no one can...
Category Archives: Internet
“The Web didn’t introduce a new competitor into the old ecosystem…. The Web created a new ecosystem”
The newspaper used to be a pretty good answer to that question, but like...
“Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention, more arrows pointing in than out”
The Web makes interactivity technologically possible, but what technology giveth, social factors taketh away....
“An individual with a camera or a keyboard is now a nonprofit of one, and self-publishing is now the normal case”
An individual with a camera or a keyboard is now a nonprofit of one,...
“The real significance of a new medium isn’t in how already-famous people use it or how businesses use it”
The real significance of a new medium isn’t in how already-famous people use it...
“Reading on-screen tempts us to see things only through the pinhole of our immediate curiosity”
Reading on-screen tempts us to see things only through the pinhole of our immediate...
“For people with a professional outlook, it’s hard to understand how something that isn’t professionally produced could affect them-not only is the internet not a newspaper, it isn’t a business, or even an institution”
Many people in the newspaper business, the same people who worried about the effects...
“The old bargain of the newspaper-world news lumped in with horoscopes and ads from the pizza parlor has now ended”
What holds a newspaper together is primarily the cost of paper, ink, and distribution;...
“Publishing used to require access to a printing press and, as a result, the act of publishing something was limited to a tiny fraction of the population…”
Publishing used to require access to a printing press and, as a result, the...
“Digital means of distributing words and images have robbed newspapers of the coherence they formerly had…”
Digital means of distributing words and images have robbed newspapers of the coherence they...