Some random thoughts that follow up my posts (and here) about Infoworld’s announcement tomorrow:
It’s not just the “paper and ink” and the “immediacy of news” that make it more likely the Infoworld cessation of its print-version will be repeated in the B2B media world. It’s the distribution costs. The decision by the USPS (a rather densely written press release is here) means that that some B2B magazines that are on the edge of a cliff will be pushed off around July 15.
I feel like my worlds are colliding. Not often do the magazine industry bloggers and tech bloggers I follow blog on the same topic. To my earlier list of Infoworld posts, here are more:
Paul Conley says that traditional B2B media will have “trail to follow, and vindication for the trailblazers.”
Dave Winer recalls Infoworld’s intersection with his career in tech.
Note to media that cover B2B media: What? Does news not happen on the weekend? Where have ya’ll been? For the record, PaidContent.org seemed to be the only industry-focused reporters actually being reporters yesterday.
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Scott Karp is thinking deep thoughts instead of reading the Sunday newspaper:
“What the news business and the entire media business are suffering from most right now is a failure of imagination. Nobody imagined that somebody would be so recklessly uncapitalistic as to create a website where people could post classified ads for free. Nobody imagined that an online software company specializing in information retrieval, but which produced no information of its own, could create the largest market for small business advertising that the world has ever seen.”
Scott’s idea:
“Instead of asking people to donate cash or pay for news to help keep journalism alive, neither of which will fly, why not ask people to donate classified advertising.”
Ironically (and one would have to be an avid reader of Scott’s to understand the irony), there’s a failed(?) experiment sitting on the shelf at Google, that sorta, kinda, tried to do this — without the “donation” part of the strategy considered.
Other smartness:
Doc Searls: “How to Save Newspapers”
Dave Winer
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