business models
Clay Shirky has brought forth another long piece on the economics of the paywall business [http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2010/11/the-times-paywall-and-newsletter-economics/] that’s worth a read. I’d just like to highlight a single sentence, though, as I think it’s a point that’s missed far too
Blogging
An interesting (and critical) analysis of the shortcomings of the anecdote-based argument style used by Clay Shirky [http://whimsley.typepad.com/whimsley/2010/04/wikibollocks-the-shirky-rules.html] and others: > But stories and analogies should be a starting point for thought, and not its terminus. They should be the spark that
alan patrick
Some heavyweight stuff that’s been sitting in my tabs over the holiday weekend: - [A last act of insanity by delusional content companies](http://charman-anderson.com/2010/04/02/ipad-app-pricing-a-last-act-of-insanity-by-delusional-content-companies/) – Kevin Anderson, who seems to have been liberated to write by taking voluntary redundancy from [The Guardian](http://www.
Clay Shirky
There’s a really nice series of posts from Liz Gannes [http://gigaom.com/author/lizg/] on social networking and privacy from South by Southwest [http://sxsw.com/], which echo my thoughts [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2010/02/the_forgotten_world_of_the_web_introvert.html] from a week
Clay Shirky
Well worth watching, for an insight into what the “end state” of journalism might look like as we get through this transformational process: [via [DigiDave’s Quickies](http://digidave.posterous.com/clay-shirky-on-journalisms-future-revolutions)]
Clay Shirky
Whenever Clay Shirky posts about journalism, journalism blogs must link it. It is the law. * *In this case, it’s worth it, too. He does a very straightforward piece of [analysis of a newspaper in the US](http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/10/rescuing-the-reporters/), figuring out what it’s
A couple of people have asked me what I think of the #cnnfail situation, with live Twittering from Iran exposing the conflict there, but the major news networks not starting to cover it until hours later. I haven’t really felt inclined to write anything because, well, I’m not
Blogging
To add to the gathering clouds, Brian [http://www.brianmicklethwait.com/index.php/weblog/comments/clay_shirky_on_newspaper_doom/] linked to this neatly-argued augury of DOOM [http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking-the-unthinkable/] (as did everybody else, as half an hour in my feed reader proved): > The
Clay Shirky
[](https://i0.wp.com/commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Clay_Shirky.jpg)Image via [Wikipedia](http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Clay_Shirky.jpg)Boing Boing ran an excellent post by
