Doc Searls has a wise post on the economic challenges facing the business of journalism that's worth your time. Here's a tease:
Jeff Jarvis is looking for better stewards of journalism's future. ...
... I'm beginning to think that fixing big-J journalism (that is, fixing newspapers) with Yet Another Business is like fixing Catholicism with Protestantism, or fixing Windows with MacOS. ¶ Computing gets better all the time because the operating systems business is being steadily replaced by building materials (mostly Linux) and practices (FOSS) that grow wild in human nature — and are hardly businesses at all. Yet they're extraordinarily good for business, because they create a solid infrastructure on top of which all kinds of "solutions" can be built. ¶ The same thing needs to happen in journalism. ...
Link: Linux Journal. --Dennis
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