The future of the internet that most excites me is also, in many ways, a snapshot of its past. It’s a place where the Neil Gaimans of the world don’t need to feed their thoughts into an engagement engine, but can instead put out a virtual shingle on their own small patch of cyberspace and attract and build a more intimate community of like-minded... See more
Good points by Tim about the future of media.
It boils down to this:
Websites are dead, don't even look at page views.
Build niche brands. The messy middle is death. You either have to be as big as Bloomberg and NYT or niche. To scale niche, build a house of... See more
Ben Thompson is the king of subscription newsletters.
He makes millions of dollars per year by writing about the business of technology, and has become a whisperer to Fortune 500 CEOs.
Some lessons below:
1. This is the age of one-person media... See more