We're all dead

The death of broadcasting is a popular theme in web posts.  For example, Doc Searls asks, What happens after TV's mainframe era ends next February? in Linux Journal (you should read it, but that's not my purpose here).  Jeff Jarvis says in BuzzMachine they should Tear down the broadcast towers because Pandora is available on the iPhone.  Those are the A-list bloggers, but it's popular with us  Z to ZZZ-list bloggers as well.  So I decided to do phrase searches to see how the media stacked up in the death department.  Surprisingly, it wasn't old media:

Dead
"death of television", 13,000 results
"death of TV", 28,200 results
Deader
"death of radio", 227,000 results
"death of newspapers", 331,000 results
Deadest
"death of blogs", "death of the blogs", "death of the blog", 81,400 results
"death of the web", 215,000 results
"death of the net", 746,000 results
"death of the internet", 1,910,000 results

--Dennis

Comments

[Robert Paterson]

Neat point Dennis - I think there are also two POV's here. The dead web are mainly from those that hope it will die - all the evidence is that they are wrong. The Dead media folks use the evidence to make their point.

The numbers go the opposite way - the web has never been used more - more YouTube videos in a week than TV used to make shows in a year in the 70's. Blogs expanding. There are clouds on the web such as Net Neutrality but use is through the roof - the mobile world is also exploding.

Now on the media front - the numbers are truly scary - engagement down, content worse, ads down, net down stock prices down

Last point - Doc, Jeff and I are your friends. We want you to do well. We are not attacking you and trad media. We long to see the best of trad media do the right things.

Those who trash the web merely hope that it will go away and they will not have to change

Yours Rob