Comments on: Drudge, Rosenstiel, and the news media’s RIAA strategy http://www.wordyard.com/2007/08/06/drudge-rosenstiel/ Technology, politics, culture Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:02:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: MediaBlog » Om het nog even samen te vatten http://www.wordyard.com/2007/08/06/drudge-rosenstiel/#comment-910 MediaBlog » Om het nog even samen te vatten Sat, 11 Aug 2007 10:46:55 +0000 http://www.wordyard.com/?p=1356#comment-910 [...] gaan liever ten onder dan dat ze erkennen dat hun autoriteit taant”, schrijft Scott Rosenberg als hij zichzelf uitlegt waarom oude media niet meer experimenteren met wat ik maar [...] [...] gaan liever ten onder dan dat ze erkennen dat hun autoriteit taant”, schrijft Scott Rosenberg als hij zichzelf uitlegt waarom oude media niet meer experimenteren met wat ik maar [...]

]]> By: Nick http://www.wordyard.com/2007/08/06/drudge-rosenstiel/#comment-909 Nick Tue, 07 Aug 2007 13:53:46 +0000 http://www.wordyard.com/?p=1356#comment-909 "The resulting flood of visitors ..." More page views, more ad revenue. Tom Rosenstiel may be expending energy lamenting the (real or apparent) shift in power away from the MSM; I guarantee others will be thinking of that simple fact - more page views, more ad revenue - and wondering how to game it. I'm not an economist, but I can't help noticing that economics plays an important, if easily missed, part everywhere online. From one point of view, why even report the news when you can manipulate stock prices by making it up? -- http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q3.07/F521AA31-1E02-4DF1-86C3-AA022A105D18.html At bottom it's all built on speed of communication. A hundred years ago many people had scarcely travelled outside their own village. Nowadays an interesting story - or a fake planted one - is halfway around the world in the blinking of an eye. “The resulting flood of visitors …”

More page views, more ad revenue. Tom Rosenstiel may be expending energy lamenting the (real or apparent) shift in power away from the MSM; I guarantee others will be thinking of that simple fact - more page views, more ad revenue - and wondering how to game it.

I’m not an economist, but I can’t help noticing that economics plays an important, if easily missed, part everywhere online. From one point of view, why even report the news when you can manipulate stock prices by making it up? –

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q3.07/F521AA31-1E02-4DF1-86C3-AA022A105D18.html

At bottom it’s all built on speed of communication. A hundred years ago many people had scarcely travelled outside their own village. Nowadays an interesting story - or a fake planted one - is halfway around the world in the blinking of an eye.

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