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Sunday, July 18, 2004
What better time to try? 
| | J.D.: On the Web, the New York Times is not the paper of record. |
| | Time to propose it again, to the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the L.A. Times and other Papers of Record that scroll their "content" behind a costwall after seven days or so, even though the street price of that content drops to zero the day after it's published, and its useful value only goes up as more and more other pages on the Web link to it. To borrow from Ronald Reagan's challenge to Mikhail Gorbachev, Take down your costwalls. |
| | At least though November. See what happens. Not just on Google, but on your newsstands and subscription rolls. Take the opportunity to sell advertising alongside editorial matter that Google and other search engines can find. See what happens with that, too. |
| | Craig Burton once explained to me how, for a large established company, "the smartest money is the money you leave on the table." That's how the papers can solve their innovator's dilemma in respect to the disruptive technologies of blogs, wikis and the Net itself. |
Even though the word is originally French
| | - Government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives.
- A political or social unit that has such a government.
- The common people, considered as the primary source of political power.
- Majority rule.
- The principles of social equality and respect for the individual within a community.
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| | [French démocratie, from Late Latin dmocratia, from Greek dmokrati : dmos, people; see d- in Indo-European Roots + -krati, -cracy.] |
| | It's a Soylent thing, democracy. As Abe Lincoln (and, in even fewer words, Charleton Heston) said, it's people. |
| | Now here's what Susan Mernit proposes we do to make it work. Read it, and note the AND logic. |
| | I remember how engaged and energized the war blogs were, between 9/11 and the launch of the second Gulf War. Same thing with the Dean and Clark blogs (by the campaigns as well as their supporters), during the primaries. |
| | Then things got kinda quiet, relatively speaking. |
| | This will change once the conventions start. We'll start to see connected democracy at work. Remember the Cluetrain corollary: Networked citizens get smarter faster than most campaigns. |
| | The networked revolution will be televised. But it won't be a revolution if it's not also blogged. |
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