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The New York Times will triumph financially, dramatically so, and utterly fail as an intellectual institution, at least by its former standards. The editorial branding will be august pronouncements about ‘the paper of record’, but the business model is pure Netflix: All The News Fit To Binge.
Antonio Garcia Martinez • Twilight of the Media Elites
was the guardian of the Facebook Ads team, sussing out obscene
Antonio Garcia Martinez • Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
Yahoo and AOL are already has-beens. They operate under the old rules. They control content and distribution and think they can own customers, relationships, and attention. They create destinations and have the hubris to think customers should come to them. They spend a huge portion of their revenue on marketing to get those people there and work... See more
Jeff Jarvis • WHAT WOULD GOOGLE DO
There was no fate worse to him than losing control of what he had built.
Nick Bilton • American Kingpin: Catching the Billion-Dollar Baron of the Dark Web
That’s why Simonson and Rosen have named their theory “absolute value.” The Internet, they say, will be a brand-assassinating technology, flooding the world with information and drowning out the signal of advertising for many products.
Derek Thompson • Hit Makers
As the author and journalist Linda Kinstler put it, “Before Tripadvisor, the customer was only nominally king. After, he became a veritable tyrant, with the power to make or break lives.”[46] The same loss of privacy is felt today by millions of taxi drivers, barbers, beauticians, and other service providers. In the past, stepping into a taxi or
... See moreYuval Noah Harari • Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
The new public square is not centred on a stable set of shared sources; instead it is structured by a small number of competing, for-profit platform companies bundling a bewildering array of stuff for different people in different ways through various ranking and recommendation algorithms.
Audiences and advertisers seem to prefer this new reality,... See more
Audiences and advertisers seem to prefer this new reality,... See more