Comments on: Finally, someone gets it

By: Gary Cook

Gary Cook — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:45:04 +0000

Never particularly been a Murdoch-hater myself. The guy has a lot of balls and is one of the few people in publishing who has the courage to put a ton of money where his mouth is, which is why he’s as successful as he is. Whatever your opinion of his newspapers, magazines and websites, he’s trying to do something different, totally against the flow. His ideas may well define the next decade in publishing. Actually, maybe he should take over from Steve Jobs.

By: PeterNBiddle

PeterNBiddle — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:37:41 +0000

@ianbetteridge well of course… And yet there are still albums

By: Ian Betteridge

Ian Betteridge — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:13:07 +0000

Kenny – totally. Tricky, but if they’re going to do it now is the best time.

By: Duncan Corps

Duncan Corps — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:22:09 +0000

(OT, @PeterNBiddle) Chalk and cheese: iTunes didn’t create the singles business, singles mostly stand alone without their album’s context. The singles business already existed and record labels tried to displace it with the albums business (for great profit?).

By: ianbetteridge

ianbetteridge — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:13:05 +0000

@mik3yb Those are very, very narrow “contexts”.

By: Kenny

Kenny — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:08:09 +0000

Rushkoff is right: there is a place for in-depth, properly edited, contextual paid-for content on the web. The problem for publishers is that they’ve spent years dragging their online news downmarket in search of traffic (the Telegraph’s @budget balls-up being a good example) so they can feed the stats to advertisers. Re-inventing online brands so that they are perceived as being worth paying for will be very, very tricky.

By: ianbetteridge

ianbetteridge — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:53:54 +0000

@mik3yb The question being “can an algorithm match the judgement of a human editor?”

By: ianbetteridge

ianbetteridge — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:53:09 +0000

@PeterNBiddle I think the record companies would beg to differ on that!

By: ianbetteridge

ianbetteridge — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:38:54 +0000

[New Post] Finally, someone gets it – http://www.technovia.co.uk/2009/11/murdo…

By: mik3yb

mik3yb — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:26:44 +0000

@ianbetteridge I really shouldn’t argue with a journo about this should I