geoffgo
2009-03-19 12:09:19
Left-leaning bias is not being helpful. However, the new digital media is instantaneous, real-time and ubiquitous. Really, really hard to find any model that can profitably compete, if dependent on ink-on-paper. “Bits are infinitely faster, cheaper, more modifiable and trackable than “atoms” and produce liitle waste.
Two of the bullets we used in our overhead slide presentations to newspaper publishers (ca. 1985-88) to alert them to the approaching information tsunami were:
186,000 miles per second. Not just a good idea, it’s the law. Let’s talk about business velocity…
Gutenberg never envisioned the chainsaw(TM). Let’s talk about information distribution vs. the publishing process…
Lots of blank stares observed at many meetings.
