What's killing the news business: A belief in corporations.(scripting.com)
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What's killing the news business: A belief in corporations.
http://www.scripting.com/stories/2010/05/11/lessonsFromTheDemiseOfNews.html
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I usually like Dave Winer's posts. They are sometimes outlandish, but there is usually some beef behind his point. This is a joke. Turning Newsweek into a bunch of blogs would be brand suicide.
Corporations rise and fall because that's the natural order of things. It's not because they have nothing to contribute: after all, startups do it too! Every single corporation he lists provided some valuable contribution to the marketplace, and some of them are continuing to innovate.
Corporations rise and fall because that's the natural order of things. It's not because they have nothing to contribute: after all, startups do it too! Every single corporation he lists provided some valuable contribution to the marketplace, and some of them are continuing to innovate.
I can think of quite a few problems that Google solved. Same for HP, Lotus, Sun, Apple, Oracle, IBM, DEC, and Netscape.
Take the example of Apple -- it revived itself from near-death after the original Mac desktop platform proved unprofitable.
Take the example of IBM -- kids these days might not remember it, but IBM used to make hardware. Now it makes practically none, but still has a massive and useful business.
Take Google -- it didn't always dominate advertising.
Etc.
I think Twitter is probably the only company on that list that hasn't undergone at least one fundamental transformation, and that's simply a matter of time.