This is years old, and I think was way ahead of its time. But now, with Google and China, or Facebook’s privacy settings, it’s coming true in an incredibly powerful way. I’m reading this story again for the first time in years, and it feels like it was written this morning.
LOTS of good stuff here.
A fantastic resource, full of interviews of brilliant people. Lots of inspiration, lots of advice. Occasional douchebaggery. My personal favorite, so far, is the interview with Leo LaPorte, increasingly a hero of mine.
Hey, Old Media: you know I love you. And really, I’m hopeful for the new paywall the New York Times is trying, because the job they do is a valuable one, and they not only deserve to be compensated but really have to be: too many of us rely on what they do for them to disappear. But it didn’t have to come to this, because advertising isn’t broken—it’s just your advertising that’s broken.
Just look at yourselves. You’re a mess.
No one’s more sure than the Journal that the tablet’s really coming. And that Apple’s got big plans for it. But how do they know something no one else on the planet knows, or at least no one wants to scoop?
