Comments on: The Power Struggle for the Future of Media http://danblank.com/blog/2009/07/14/the-power-struggle-for-the-future-of-media/ Mon, 26 Jul 2010 05:34:22 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: DanBlank http://danblank.com/blog/2009/07/14/the-power-struggle-for-the-future-of-media/comment-page-1/#comment-361 DanBlank Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:21:49 +0000 http://danblank.com/blog/?p=1111#comment-361 Guy - Thanks, you make some great points. I think what is most interesting to me is someone like Craig Newmark who seems to have a genuine interest in simply helping people through Craigslist. The Twitter folks seem to take the same position, but their service is still so new, that there is still a wait-and-see approach to where they take things.<br><br>To your point - there are really no sides, and the playing field is littered with folks advocating things that benefit themselves. And yet, it is all in transition, and even the new players need to create real value in order to find fans. <br><br>The transition in print media seems to have a huge amount of polarizing pundits - which is why I like looking at how things are shaping up in the music industry. Whenever I see an artist reach their fans in a small and direct way that supports the art - that supports their love of music and their ability to have the artist continue producing it - well, that's what makes me smile.<br><br>Have a nice day.<br>-Dan Guy – Thanks, you make some great points. I think what is most interesting to me is someone like Craig Newmark who seems to have a genuine interest in simply helping people through Craigslist. The Twitter folks seem to take the same position, but their service is still so new, that there is still a wait-and-see approach to where they take things.

To your point – there are really no sides, and the playing field is littered with folks advocating things that benefit themselves. And yet, it is all in transition, and even the new players need to create real value in order to find fans.

The transition in print media seems to have a huge amount of polarizing pundits – which is why I like looking at how things are shaping up in the music industry. Whenever I see an artist reach their fans in a small and direct way that supports the art – that supports their love of music and their ability to have the artist continue producing it – well, that's what makes me smile.

Have a nice day.
-Dan

]]> By: glecharles http://danblank.com/blog/2009/07/14/the-power-struggle-for-the-future-of-media/comment-page-1/#comment-360 glecharles Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:00:49 +0000 http://danblank.com/blog/?p=1111#comment-360 "Some men just want to watch the world burn." In The Dark Knight, the Joker is akin to the pundits who claim the "wisdom of the crowds" and FREE is the future; few of them really care about the end result as long as it keeps them in the spotlight and the speaking gigs rolling in.<br><br>I'm conflicted by the "us vs. them" frame this discussion is so often presented in, where traditional media companies are the bad guys and the "struggle" is a zero-sum game. As if new media players aren't simply exploiting a moment of transition, working an angle to maximize their own profits.<br><br>Does anyone believe that The Huffington Post is an altruistic enterprise dedicated to freeing us from the exploitative grip of... The New York Times? Or that we'll all be getting our news from Twitter by 2012? “Some men just want to watch the world burn.” In The Dark Knight, the Joker is akin to the pundits who claim the “wisdom of the crowds” and FREE is the future; few of them really care about the end result as long as it keeps them in the spotlight and the speaking gigs rolling in.

I'm conflicted by the “us vs. them” frame this discussion is so often presented in, where traditional media companies are the bad guys and the “struggle” is a zero-sum game. As if new media players aren't simply exploiting a moment of transition, working an angle to maximize their own profits.

Does anyone believe that The Huffington Post is an altruistic enterprise dedicated to freeing us from the exploitative grip of… The New York Times? Or that we'll all be getting our news from Twitter by 2012?

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