Umair Haque always talks intelligently about economics, and yesterday’s post ‘The Nichepaper Manifesto’ is well worth reading in full. Some choice quotes: “Journalists didn’t make 20th century newspapers profitable — readers did. 20th century newspapers were never supernormally profitable because of what they wrote: it was the natural monopoly dynamics of classifieds that fueled massive margins.” Note: those monopolies are
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I only recently came across this video of Umair Haque talking about some of the economic changes we’re living through and outlining 5 principles for businesses looking to adapt to those. Well worth watching. Umair Haque @ Daytona Sessions vol. 2 – Constructive Capitalism from Daytona Sessions on Vimeo.
‘UGC’ and journalism: the Giffords shooting and Facebook page moderation
The Obama London blog has a post looking at the moderation of comments on Sarah Palin’s Facebook page (following the Giffords shooting) which raises a couple of key points for journalists dealing with user generated content. Editorially selected, not UGC The first point is that it can be easy to assume user generated content is an unadulterated reflection of one
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regulation, law and ethics, UGC • Tags: Christina Taylor Green, comments, facebook, facebook pages, giffords, moderation, nadine dorries, sarah palin, umair haque • Comment feed RSS 2.0 - Read this post