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Messiness of Real Change
« on: March 15, 2009, 08:10:42 AM »
There is too much to fully quote, but the following excerpts give a taste of what I found interesting about the article.

The context is the slow-mo cratering of the newspaper business.


http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking-the-unthinkable/

“When a 14 year old kid can blow up your business in his spare time, not because he hates you but because he loves you, then you got a problem.”


“If the old model is broken, what will work in its place?” To which the answer is: Nothing. Nothing will work.


During the wrenching transition to print, experiments were only revealed in retrospect to be turning points.


That is what real revolutions are like. The old stuff gets broken faster than the new stuff is put in its place. The importance of any given experiment isn’t apparent at the moment it appears; big changes stall, small changes spread.



Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism.



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Re: Messiness of Real Change
« Reply #1 on: March 15, 2009, 02:26:12 PM »
Quote from: jfruser on March 15, 2009, 08:10:42 AM
Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism.

True, that.
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Re: Messiness of Real Change
« Reply #2 on: March 15, 2009, 02:37:45 PM »
And on that note, here is a fascinating website from the Newseum...

Front pages, every day, for many of the world's newspapers.


Be sure to check out Pravda in Moscow. I don't think they got the message that the Soviet Union's bland, colorless montage style is dead.


http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/flash/

Huh. Pravda apparently doesn't publish on Sundays.
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Re: Messiness of Real Change
« Reply #3 on: March 15, 2009, 10:17:10 PM »
For those of you who haven't seen it yet:

http://epic.makingithappen.co.uk/
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Re: Messiness of Real Change
« Reply #4 on: March 16, 2009, 06:19:12 AM »
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Be sure to check out Pravda in Moscow. I don't think they got the message that the Soviet Union's bland, colorless montage style is dead.

A lot of readers in Russia think this sort of thing makes the newspaper look 'respectable'.
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