Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Gladwell is closer to right than Anderson

Some thoughts on Gladwell's review of "Free: The Future of a Radical Price" and author Chris Anderson's response:

  • Amazon can refuse to pay newspapers for content all they want, but at some point it will drive newspapers out of business and there won't be any content.
  • Anderson's experience of shopping out his hiring of writers for GeekDad doesn't constitute a trend.
  • Chris, Gladwell is threatened because he perceives this thinking as influential.
  • Blogs love to laugh at newspapers and journalists as they freak out about the future of the industry, but take a look at a site such as Daily Kos: most of their frontpage content links to and criticizes newspaper journalism.

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