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Broadband Politics » Media http://broadbandpolitics.com On the theory and practice of networking Wed, 18 Aug 2010 22:39:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 The coming bumper-crop of news http://broadbandpolitics.com/2007/03/the-coming-bumper-crop-of-news/ http://broadbandpolitics.com/2007/03/the-coming-bumper-crop-of-news/#comments Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:43:25 +0000 Richard Bennett http://bennett.com/blog/index.php/archives/2007/03/26/the-coming-bumper-crop-of-news/ inject a little optimism into the business:

Here's what I'd tell the children: The good news about the news is that there's no shortage of news. The best experts forecast a nearly boundless supply of news clear into the next century, so the news conservation efforts of the past (recycling, echo-chambering, and other forms of plagiarism) are no longer necessary and will phase out as soon as we have the means to harvest the coming bumper-crop of news. And things aren't just rosy on the supply side, they're looking real good on the demand side. Previous generations of news consumers had to get by on two newsfeeds a day, one before work in the morning and the other after work. Now we can graze and forage on news all day long without becoming over-educated. The challenge to news harvesters is in the construction of the apparatus that harvests raw news, processes it, and takes it to market. In previous generations, this process was most efficient when centralized in local news factories, but today and tomorrow the process will become more decentralized, sometimes even taking place on consumer premises under the control of news robots which sift, sort, organize, and filter according to consumer preferences. The process of moving these functions from central offices to consumer equipment is just beginning, although we've had working prototypes of the news robot for 25 years. The revenue picture has never been brighter, as each feed is easily supported by multiple sources of ad and subscriber fees. The key elements are understanding that decentralization is in fact multiple centralization, and that each center of news processing is a potential revenue generator. That's all I wish to say at the moment, but you can do the math. And Hook 'Em.]]> http://broadbandpolitics.com/2007/03/the-coming-bumper-crop-of-news/feed/ 0 In their own words http://broadbandpolitics.com/2006/10/in-their-own-words-2/ http://broadbandpolitics.com/2006/10/in-their-own-words-2/#comments Thu, 12 Oct 2006 22:06:22 +0000 Richard Bennett http://bennett.com/blog/index.php/archives/2006/10/12/in-their-own-words-2/ the Times acknowledges it:

It seems to me that this should clear up the confusion. ]]> http://broadbandpolitics.com/2006/10/in-their-own-words-2/feed/ 0 Clockwork quota system http://broadbandpolitics.com/2005/03/clockwork-quota-system/ http://broadbandpolitics.com/2005/03/clockwork-quota-system/#comments Tue, 15 Mar 2005 23:14:20 +0000 Richard Bennett http://mossback.org/index.php/archives/2005/03/15/clockwork-quota-system/ some dude named Steven Levy who writes for Newsweek. Jeff Jarvis and about half the known blogosphere take him to task. There are a couple of interesting variations on the meme this time around: Levy doesn't complain about a dearth of gay bloggers, presumably because Andrew Sullivan and the Denton empire make that charge a non-starter, nor does he mention non-American bloggers for similar reasons. Halley Suitt jumps aboard, acting surprised, but she's been pushing this female-bloggers-rule thing for a while, so it's pretty disingenuous, and Chris Nolan does some explaining. As I've said before, racial and gender quotas are a non-issue in the blogosphere because we generally don't care about such trivial attributes as race and gender. If you're smart, insightful, witty, or industrious you'll be read. You may even be read if you're none of these things but you can get people excited by appealing to their fears, their libidinous impulses, or their aspirations. But we're not going to read you just because you have some invisible biological characteristics that aren't germane to the quality of your thought. To those who'd rather see more diverse sources of a certain one-dimensional point of view (diversity in Newsweek terms means liberals of all colors and sexes), the blogosphere isn't for you. If you care about smart and interesting points of view, come on down. Levy, thanks for playing the Oliver Willis game, now go home. ]]> http://broadbandpolitics.com/2005/03/clockwork-quota-system/feed/ 1 Echo chamber strikes back http://broadbandpolitics.com/2005/01/echo-chamber-strikes-back/ http://broadbandpolitics.com/2005/01/echo-chamber-strikes-back/#comments Tue, 04 Jan 2005 16:43:29 +0000 Richard Bennett http://mossback.org/archives/2005/01/echo-chamber-strikes-back/ blogs commenting on a recent piece by John Schwartz of the NY Times ridiculing the echo chamber effect. Thing is, Schwartz is mainly right. Crazy rumors and conspiracy theories do run through the blogosphere like wildfire, and the blogosphere doesn't employ its fact-check-your-ass function against itself with the same relish that it does against the MSM, so it's a good thing for us to read blogs that we don't agree with all the better to correct their errors. There was an odd comparison of blogs to "new media" in the Schwartz piece that I found bewildering, but it was probably a typo or an editing error. (UPDATE:A source at the Times confirms this was an editing error, introduced at the copy desk.) In any event, having a blog doesn't mean that every criticism of the blogs is an attack on you, any more than voting Republican means you have to be a Creationist.]]> http://broadbandpolitics.com/2005/01/echo-chamber-strikes-back/feed/ 0 Lamest trick in years http://broadbandpolitics.com On the theory and practice of networking Wed, 18 Aug 2010 22:39:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Broadband Politics » Media http://broadbandpolitics.com On the theory and practice of networking Wed, 18 Aug 2010 22:39:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 The coming bumper-crop of news http://broadbandpolitics.com/2007/03/the-coming-bumper-crop-of-news/ http://broadbandpolitics.com/2007/03/the-coming-bumper-crop-of-news/#comments Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:43:25 +0000 Richard Bennett http://bennett.com/blog/index.php/archives/2007/03/26/the-coming-bumper-crop-of-news/ inject a little optimism into the business:

Here's what I'd tell the children: The good news about the news is that there's no shortage of news. The best experts forecast a nearly boundless supply of news clear into the next century, so the news conservation efforts of the past (recycling, echo-chambering, and other forms of plagiarism) are no longer necessary and will phase out as soon as we have the means to harvest the coming bumper-crop of news. And things aren't just rosy on the supply side, they're looking real good on the demand side. Previous generations of news consumers had to get by on two newsfeeds a day, one before work in the morning and the other after work. Now we can graze and forage on news all day long without becoming over-educated. The challenge to news harvesters is in the construction of the apparatus that harvests raw news, processes it, and takes it to market. In previous generations, this process was most efficient when centralized in local news factories, but today and tomorrow the process will become more decentralized, sometimes even taking place on consumer premises under the control of news robots which sift, sort, organize, and filter according to consumer preferences. The process of moving these functions from central offices to consumer equipment is just beginning, although we've had working prototypes of the news robot for 25 years. The revenue picture has never been brighter, as each feed is easily supported by multiple sources of ad and subscriber fees. The key elements are understanding that decentralization is in fact multiple centralization, and that each center of news processing is a potential revenue generator. That's all I wish to say at the moment, but you can do the math. And Hook 'Em.]]> http://broadbandpolitics.com/2007/03/the-coming-bumper-crop-of-news/feed/ 0 Broadband Politics » Media http://broadbandpolitics.com On the theory and practice of networking Wed, 18 Aug 2010 22:39:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 The coming bumper-crop of news http://broadbandpolitics.com/2007/03/the-coming-bumper-crop-of-news/ http://broadbandpolitics.com/2007/03/the-coming-bumper-crop-of-news/#comments Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:43:25 +0000 Richard Bennett http://bennett.com/blog/index.php/archives/2007/03/26/the-coming-bumper-crop-of-news/ inject a little optimism into the business:

It seems to me that this should clear up the confusion. ]]> http://broadbandpolitics.com/2006/10/in-their-own-words-2/feed/ 0 Broadband Politics » Media http://broadbandpolitics.com On the theory and practice of networking Wed, 18 Aug 2010 22:39:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 The coming bumper-crop of news http://broadbandpolitics.com/2007/03/the-coming-bumper-crop-of-news/ http://broadbandpolitics.com/2007/03/the-coming-bumper-crop-of-news/#comments Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:43:25 +0000 Richard Bennett http://bennett.com/blog/index.php/archives/2007/03/26/the-coming-bumper-crop-of-news/ inject a little optimism into the business:

It seems to me that this should clear up the confusion. ]]> http://broadbandpolitics.com/2006/10/in-their-own-words-2/feed/ 0 Clockwork quota system http://broadbandpolitics.com/2005/03/clockwork-quota-system/ http://broadbandpolitics.com/2005/03/clockwork-quota-system/#comments Tue, 15 Mar 2005 23:14:20 +0000 Richard Bennett http://mossback.org/index.php/archives/2005/03/15/clockwork-quota-system/ some dude named Steven Levy who writes for Newsweek. Jeff Jarvis and about half the known blogosphere take him to task. There are a couple of interesting variations on the meme this time around: Levy doesn't complain about a dearth of gay bloggers, presumably because Andrew Sullivan and the Denton empire make that charge a non-starter, nor does he mention non-American bloggers for similar reasons. Halley Suitt jumps aboard, acting surprised, but she's been pushing this female-bloggers-rule thing for a while, so it's pretty disingenuous, and Chris Nolan does some explaining. As I've said before, racial and gender quotas are a non-issue in the blogosphere because we generally don't care about such trivial attributes as race and gender. If you're smart, insightful, witty, or industrious you'll be read. You may even be read if you're none of these things but you can get people excited by appealing to their fears, their libidinous impulses, or their aspirations. But we're not going to read you just because you have some invisible biological characteristics that aren't germane to the quality of your thought. To those who'd rather see more diverse sources of a certain one-dimensional point of view (diversity in Newsweek terms means liberals of all colors and sexes), the blogosphere isn't for you. If you care about smart and interesting points of view, come on down. Levy, thanks for playing the Oliver Willis game, now go home. ]]> http://broadbandpolitics.com/2005/03/clockwork-quota-system/feed/ 1 Echo chamber strikes back http://broadbandpolitics.com/2005/01/echo-chamber-strikes-back/ http://broadbandpolitics.com/2005/01/echo-chamber-strikes-back/#comments Tue, 04 Jan 2005 16:43:29 +0000 Richard Bennett http://mossback.org/archives/2005/01/echo-chamber-strikes-back/ blogs commenting on a recent piece by John Schwartz of the NY Times ridiculing the echo chamber effect. Thing is, Schwartz is mainly right. Crazy rumors and conspiracy theories do run through the blogosphere like wildfire, and the blogosphere doesn't employ its fact-check-your-ass function against itself with the same relish that it does against the MSM, so it's a good thing for us to read blogs that we don't agree with all the better to correct their errors. There was an odd comparison of blogs to "new media" in the Schwartz piece that I found bewildering, but it was probably a typo or an editing error. (UPDATE:A source at the Times confirms this was an editing error, introduced at the copy desk.) In any event, having a blog doesn't mean that every criticism of the blogs is an attack on you, any more than voting Republican means you have to be a Creationist.]]> http://broadbandpolitics.com/2005/01/echo-chamber-strikes-back/feed/ 0 Lamest trick in years http://broadbandpolitics.com/2005/03/clockwork-quota-system/ http://broadbandpolitics.com/2005/03/clockwork-quota-system/#comments Tue, 15 Mar 2005 23:14:20 +0000 Richard Bennett http://mossback.org/index.php/archives/2005/03/15/clockwork-quota-system/ some dude named Steven Levy who writes for Newsweek. Jeff Jarvis and about half the known blogosphere take him to task. There are a couple of interesting variations on the meme this time around: Levy doesn't complain about a dearth of gay bloggers, presumably because Andrew Sullivan and the Denton empire make that charge a non-starter, nor does he mention non-American bloggers for similar reasons. Halley Suitt jumps aboard, acting surprised, but she's been pushing this female-bloggers-rule thing for a while, so it's pretty disingenuous, and Chris Nolan does some explaining. As I've said before, racial and gender quotas are a non-issue in the blogosphere because we generally don't care about such trivial attributes as race and gender. If you're smart, insightful, witty, or industrious you'll be read. You may even be read if you're none of these things but you can get people excited by appealing to their fears, their libidinous impulses, or their aspirations. But we're not going to read you just because you have some invisible biological characteristics that aren't germane to the quality of your thought. To those who'd rather see more diverse sources of a certain one-dimensional point of view (diversity in Newsweek terms means liberals of all colors and sexes), the blogosphere isn't for you. If you care about smart and interesting points of view, come on down. Levy, thanks for playing the Oliver Willis game, now go home. ]]> http://broadbandpolitics.com/2005/03/clockwork-quota-system/feed/ 1 Broadband Politics » Media http://broadbandpolitics.com On the theory and practice of networking Wed, 18 Aug 2010 22:39:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 The coming bumper-crop of news http://broadbandpolitics.com/2007/03/the-coming-bumper-crop-of-news/ http://broadbandpolitics.com/2007/03/the-coming-bumper-crop-of-news/#comments Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:43:25 +0000 Richard Bennett http://bennett.com/blog/index.php/archives/2007/03/26/the-coming-bumper-crop-of-news/ inject a little optimism into the business:

It seems to me that this should clear up the confusion. ]]> http://broadbandpolitics.com/2006/10/in-their-own-words-2/feed/ 0 Clockwork quota system http://broadbandpolitics.com/2005/03/clockwork-quota-system/ http://broadbandpolitics.com/2005/03/clockwork-quota-system/#comments Tue, 15 Mar 2005 23:14:20 +0000 Richard Bennett http://mossback.org/index.php/archives/2005/03/15/clockwork-quota-system/ some dude named Steven Levy who writes for Newsweek. Jeff Jarvis and about half the known blogosphere take him to task. There are a couple of interesting variations on the meme this time around: Levy doesn't complain about a dearth of gay bloggers, presumably because Andrew Sullivan and the Denton empire make that charge a non-starter, nor does he mention non-American bloggers for similar reasons. Halley Suitt jumps aboard, acting surprised, but she's been pushing this female-bloggers-rule thing for a while, so it's pretty disingenuous, and Chris Nolan does some explaining. As I've said before, racial and gender quotas are a non-issue in the blogosphere because we generally don't care about such trivial attributes as race and gender. If you're smart, insightful, witty, or industrious you'll be read. You may even be read if you're none of these things but you can get people excited by appealing to their fears, their libidinous impulses, or their aspirations. But we're not going to read you just because you have some invisible biological characteristics that aren't germane to the quality of your thought. To those who'd rather see more diverse sources of a certain one-dimensional point of view (diversity in Newsweek terms means liberals of all colors and sexes), the blogosphere isn't for you. If you care about smart and interesting points of view, come on down. Levy, thanks for playing the Oliver Willis game, now go home. ]]> http://broadbandpolitics.com/2005/03/clockwork-quota-system/feed/ 1 Echo chamber strikes back http://broadbandpolitics.com/2005/01/echo-chamber-strikes-back/ http://broadbandpolitics.com/2005/01/echo-chamber-strikes-back/#comments Tue, 04 Jan 2005 16:43:29 +0000 Richard Bennett http://mossback.org/archives/2005/01/echo-chamber-strikes-back/ blogs commenting on a recent piece by John Schwartz of the NY Times ridiculing the echo chamber effect. Thing is, Schwartz is mainly right. Crazy rumors and conspiracy theories do run through the blogosphere like wildfire, and the blogosphere doesn't employ its fact-check-your-ass function against itself with the same relish that it does against the MSM, so it's a good thing for us to read blogs that we don't agree with all the better to correct their errors. There was an odd comparison of blogs to "new media" in the Schwartz piece that I found bewildering, but it was probably a typo or an editing error. (UPDATE:A source at the Times confirms this was an editing error, introduced at the copy desk.) In any event, having a blog doesn't mean that every criticism of the blogs is an attack on you, any more than voting Republican means you have to be a Creationist.]]> http://broadbandpolitics.com/2005/01/echo-chamber-strikes-back/feed/ 0 Lamest trick in years http://broadbandpolitics.com/2005/01/echo-chamber-strikes-back/ http://broadbandpolitics.com/2005/01/echo-chamber-strikes-back/#comments Tue, 04 Jan 2005 16:43:29 +0000 Richard Bennett http://mossback.org/archives/2005/01/echo-chamber-strikes-back/ blogs commenting on a recent piece by John Schwartz of the NY Times ridiculing the echo chamber effect. Thing is, Schwartz is mainly right. Crazy rumors and conspiracy theories do run through the blogosphere like wildfire, and the blogosphere doesn't employ its fact-check-your-ass function against itself with the same relish that it does against the MSM, so it's a good thing for us to read blogs that we don't agree with all the better to correct their errors. There was an odd comparison of blogs to "new media" in the Schwartz piece that I found bewildering, but it was probably a typo or an editing error. (UPDATE:A source at the Times confirms this was an editing error, introduced at the copy desk.) In any event, having a blog doesn't mean that every criticism of the blogs is an attack on you, any more than voting Republican means you have to be a Creationist.]]> http://broadbandpolitics.com/2005/01/echo-chamber-strikes-back/feed/ 0 Broadband Politics » Media http://broadbandpolitics.com On the theory and practice of networking Wed, 18 Aug 2010 22:39:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 The coming bumper-crop of news http://broadbandpolitics.com/2007/03/the-coming-bumper-crop-of-news/ http://broadbandpolitics.com/2007/03/the-coming-bumper-crop-of-news/#comments Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:43:25 +0000 Richard Bennett http://bennett.com/blog/index.php/archives/2007/03/26/the-coming-bumper-crop-of-news/ inject a little optimism into the business: