Clay Shirky on the recent resurgence of the micropayments fantasy
“Because small payment systems are always discussed in conversations by and for publishers, readers are assigned no independent role. In every micropayments fantasy, there is a sentence or section...
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With the old economics destroyed, organizational forms perfected for industrial production have to be replaced with structures optimized for digital data. It makes increasingly less sense even to talk...
View ArticleThe future of journalism as institutions erode
Interesting video interview by ReadWriteWeb’s Sarah Perez with David Cohn of Spot.us, a crowd funded local journalism project in the Bay Area. I’ve been thinking a bunch about what happens to the...
View ArticlePublishers continue whining about how Google “stole” distribution on the web
“Spanfeller: For some time there have been murmurings about the relative value generated by Google vs. the parasitical nature of its business model. In short, is Google being disproportionally...
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