This is a fascinating talk (given at the IIEA) and well worth sticking with for the full duration. Mark's basic points are that:
-- people won't pay for news sources, but will pay for news packages
-- newspapers, as currently set-up, are screwed (mainly because they "undermine themselves" by giving away their product free online)
The only point I'd take issue with in all of this is that it's essentially futurology and guesswork. In other words, Mark doesn't point to any one example or organisation that has gotten it right. This is a common problem experienced by those who passionately believe that the current model of news is outdated: they struggle to articulate exactly how an alternative would work, or who is providing the best model at present. Still, this is excellent stuff.
Are your seriously suggesting that somebody in RTE who is hooked on twitter and then registers an Irish company and .com domain name called "crowdflash" doesn't know what he's doing?
Posted by: A D Splice | January 02, 2010 at 12:45 PM