A couple of things caught my eye this week.
The first, on the face of it, seems such an obvious way of doing things that in some ways it’s surprising to consider it revolutionary but then………..yes, any links to UK examples of same gratefully received!
As Josh Korr starts in his post A revolution begins quietly begins in Washington State.
“The discussion about journalism’s future so often focuses on Big Changes — Kill the print edition! Flips for everyone! Reinvent business models NOW! — that it’s easy to forget how simple innovation can be.”
He goes on to detail how journalists from four different newspaper organisations were able to pool talents to provide the best possible coverage of a flood in the locality.
He concludes:”Doing this isn’t complicated. In an email, Brianne (one of the journalists) described the extent of her planning: “I follow the others on Twitter, and they had started a hashtag, #waflood, and then mentioned using the same tag for publish2 links.”
Aha! Twitter to the rescue once more!
Which brings me onto the next posting. Paul Robinson (who also co-blogs with me on The Mancunian Way) fears for Twitter’s future and wonders whether those of us that love and rely on the service will dig into our pockets to help out.
At his Vageware blog post What on earth is Twitter playing at? he says “For those of us in the industry, it’s even worse: when Twitter goes to the ultimate fail whale, it will completely destroy any chance for us to open up liquidity in the VC or loan markets any time soon.
“It will be so high profile a failure due to its “success” there won’t be an investor on the planet who doesn’t hear about it and think ‘well, if they failed, what chance anybody else in the web industry?’. They are effectively playing Russian roulette on behalf of the entire industry.”
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