Following Links in a post on elephantville I stumbled upon two blogposts by one Richard Posner, an appeal court justice in Chicago, a very intelligent man too and seemingly a well known conservative.
One can be found in the archives of the NY Times. It was written in 2005 and, all counted together, was heavily in favour of the new media and blogging especially. Small wonder, the man blogs a lot himself. The story is titled Bad News.
"So when all the pluses and minuses of the impact of technological and economic change on the news media are toted up and compared, maybe there isn't much to fret about."
The second one is found on the Becker-Posner Blog and titled The Future of News. It is a rather cautious argument for exacerbating US Copyright Law.
"Expanding copyright law to bar online access to copyrighted materials without the copyright holder's consent, or to bar linking to or paraphrasing copyrighted materials without the copyright holder's consent, might be necessary to keep free riding on content financed by online newspapers from so impairing the incentive to create costly news-gathering operations that news services like Reuters and the Associated Press would become the only professional, nongovernmental sources of news and opinion."
How a crisis can change opinions. This one did so with the left and the right. But naturally more so the right. The tides are turning now. Nevertheless I recommend reading both posts because of their intelligent writing and good insight into the development of American thinking.
If anyone can tell me in a comment, what the flaws in his arguments are, the better. I have one critique in the drawer but definitely do not want to waste it here. It is not trivial and hard to explain because it makes a lot of assumptions that start to be thought about but are hardly wholly agreed upon even among my best friends.
"Why he doesn’t get it Because his idea is against the very nature of the Internet and nobody would support him. Plus, his article has a trackback function enabled to encourage linking!"
This is valid but not good enough an argument.
Reading about the top 10 critical comments on the postings brought me to the opinion that Posner's readers are far from being able to correctly or efficiently counter his arguments.
Dan Kennedy of the Guardian - by which I came upon all this - asks: "Should Linking Be Illegal?" and denies it. Kennedy's central argument is derived from the mp3-wars (free content drives traffic to commericial content) and not good enough either, I think.
"Posner comes across as willfully blind to the ways in which bloggers and aggregators actually drive traffic to news sites, resulting in more readers seeing their content and, thus, their advertising."
The rest of that story is playing on liberal prejudices on conservative judges and as such manipulative and of little value. It is a pity. Come on, defenders of the net, we can do better, unless ...
But then again, it's only the internetz, have no fears. It is neither salvation and bliss eternal nor the balance of the schwartz that is in danger.
Mein kleiner Bericht über Durchschnittsgehälter bei Goldman-Sachs aus dem im Titel erwähnten Jahr wird immer mal wieder über verschiedene Suchmaschinen wegen mit eben dem Suchwort gefunden und "angeklickt", wie man in der heutigen Grammatik sagt.
Ich habe ihn jetzt mal selbst wieder gelesen und entsetzt 2 Rechtschreibfehler korrigiert. Er wirkt aus heutiger Sicht auf mich ganz anders als damals.
Google handles roughly two-thirds of all Internet searches. It owns the largest online video site, YouTube, which is more than 10 times more popular than its nearest competitor. And last year, Google sold nearly $22 billion in advertising, more than any media company in the world.
With all those riches and more, how is Google a relatively small company, one that is vulnerable to competition and whose luck could turn any day?
Dana Wagner is happy to explain.
Mr. Wagner is Google's competition counsel.
Wie sich die Gebildeten und die sogenannte Intelligenzia sich und die geringsten ihrer Äußerungen stets überschätzen, kann man sehr gut daran ablesen, wie sehr die Journalisten auf Twitter stehen und wie oft Twitter in den traditionellen Medien vorkommt. Von all den "neuen (bösen) Medien" am öftesten und positivsten.
Da steht sie drauf, die kommunikative Elite, aktiv und passiv. Eine Bonmotschkerl-Maschine, wo man seine eigenen und die anderen schlamperten Durchblicker-Äußerungen anstrengungs- und reflektionsfrei und vor allem noch kürzer als im heutzutage allgegenwärtigen Kommunikationsmittel Management Summary herausspucken und bei einem Auge rein und beim anderen heraus komsumieren und produzieren kann.
Dabei hat Twitter ja den gleichen Sinn wie Facebook und die anderen, nur das die Selbst- und Freundesbeweihräucherungsmethoden noch weniger aufwändig sind.
Lange Rede, kurzer Sinn: Von allen superen riesigen Zielgruppendiskos im weltweiten Web ist Twitter der Ort, wo das Grundprogramm intellektuelles Rudelwixen heißt.
ANTCD and thoroughly more important, in markets larger than media:
Most of China's recent purchases have involved acquisitions outside of the U.S., perhaps amid greater conscientiousness over stirring up protectionist sentiment.
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what friends you have, yet i agree. ;) - couldn't resist.
by motzes (03.07.2009, 19:24)
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yes he's writing about a topic of interest of mine. but no, he is not of interest to me because everything suggested in that post....
by StefanL (03.07.2009, 17:51)
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from spaniards to africa: this guy might be for your interest. i am still digging his thoughts and pointers ...
by motzes (03.07.2009, 11:11)
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some might have learned their lessons by now, even i wouldn't call them "internet guys" in the first place.
apart from media/analysts craziness, you might....
by motzes (02.07.2009, 22:26)
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i know that i don't have to argue about that. anyhow, i found his paper, as i heard about it - well, two years ago....
by motzes (02.07.2009, 22:23)
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who might have learned their lessons by now. I am totally interested.
by StefanL (02.07.2009, 21:49)
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da stimmt ja vieles irgendwie, aber die andere Sache ist einerseit die, dass die traditionellen Medien diese Initiative europaweit sehr breit angelegt haben und mit....
by StefanL (02.07.2009, 21:43)
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looks like a very interesting paper. no one need argue with me about the fact that copyright has far exceeded any sensible limits and that....
by StefanL (02.07.2009, 21:36)
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very nice story, the Irish saving the civilization and a sympathetic myth too. copyright and protection of intellectual property was progress in its day, but,....
by StefanL (02.07.2009, 19:32)
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didn't we have this discussion already in the late 90s when commerce and marketing came in and classical media dreamed of making millions/billions with their....
Dana Wagner is 