Comments on: WWGD with newspapers?

By: Bloggasm » Vague truisms will save newspapers

Bloggasm » Vague truisms will save newspapers — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 03:13:41 +0000

[...] on these wannabe contestants for Poor Richard’s Almanac, so it’s not surprising that he linked to a blog post full of them: Old way of [...]

By: Pricing ideas « Science in the Triangle

Pricing ideas « Science in the Triangle — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:56:15 +0000

[...] Do?” and director of the interactive journalism program at the City University of New York, lists major differences between publishing information in print and publishing information on the [...]

By: What Google says newspapers should do | Save the Media

What Google says newspapers should do | Save the Media — Sat, 09 May 2009 02:04:07 +0000

[...] to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Over the past two weeks, I’ve blogged about Jeff Jarvis’ book, “What Would Google Do?” as has my guest blogger, friend and colleague, Amber Smith. Both of us distilled ideas from the [...]

By: ~M~

~M~ — Fri, 08 May 2009 04:43:30 +0000

Rats the blog link did not show up…

http://www.jessicamcdougall.com/jessica_mcdougall/2009/04/google-bunny-giveaway.html

By: ~M~

~M~ — Fri, 08 May 2009 04:43:06 +0000

I just had to come here and tell you how I am loving WWGD the audiobook! And how I came to have it is a total WWGD story….. So I was reading this blog

And just because, I answered the question — and I won the audiobook! On a blog! She FedEx’d it to me and since I am not a business person, I didn’t think it would interest me much. But after the 3rd time I heard Lady Gaga on the 3rd radio station in a row (love her but enough already), I popped it in — and wow! I am still listening. It is amazing and eye opening.

Here’s the funny thing — just had my finals in library school last week. Wrote a whole entire paper on library futures where I flailed around trying to articulate what is in this book, when I had never read it. Just pretty much railing against The Library-As-Brand for being cumbersome, old fashioned, becoming irrelevant, and needing to change in some very specific ways. I think I did say The Library needs to have a web network that combines the best of Google, Facebook, Amazon, and more. This is the 2nd paper I have written focusing on this topic. Let’s jet propel The Library-As-Brand into the new millenium already — it’s only been 9 years now. So glad I have the book bc it is articulating what I have been saying since I started grad school.

So why am I here — well of course I had to go and blog about the book and link back to Jessica’s post, right? And leave a comment here? Bc that’s what the Googliers do. Lot’s of luck with it!

By: Robert Levine

Robert Levine — Thu, 07 May 2009 16:06:56 +0000

What Would Google Do With Newspapers?

They would use their market share and cash reserves to squeeze the competition!

For all your talk about newspapers as monopolies, it’s not them the DOJ is looking into:
money.cnn.com/2009/05/07/technology/yang_google.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2009050710

By: What Would Google Do?

What Would Google Do? — Thu, 07 May 2009 11:15:34 +0000

[...] Right now people are fainting over the “death of newspapers.” Danadug summarizes the issue in “Newspapers in a State of Flux.” Senator Kerry is holding hearings as some wonder if newspapers should be “bailed out.” But (unsentimentally) I agree with Jarvis: “Don’t bail. Build.” In this blog-post one of Jeff’s readers outlines old thinking vs. new>>>. [...]

By: John H

John H — Wed, 06 May 2009 13:42:33 +0000

Reading your WWGD book now. I don’t think I can read too many news articles about companies going under without thinking about some of the points made in your book. Just saw an article on the Boston Globe http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,519079,00.html and thought “Are theses guys in trouble because of the way they think?” I’m trying to figure out WWGD with staffing companies?

By: Kataweb.it - Blog - Cablogrammi di Massimo Russo » Blog Archive » I giornali da prodotto a servizio per superare la crisi

Wed, 06 May 2009 09:33:08 +0000

[...] via Jeff Jarvis (ultimamente insopportabile nei toni autopromozionali e agiografici nei confronti di Google, ma [...]

By: Scott B

Scott B — Wed, 06 May 2009 05:43:42 +0000

Ellen’s right: while Amber raises good points, they’re all academic until newspapers, er, news organizations, can properly monetize online. Tribune’s upcoming “Chicago Now” site will present a good opportunity to see some new-ish (for a newspaper co.) online money-making strategies in effect. It would be nice to see something work before the Great Walls of Pay are erected en masse (which WILL happen if Hearst is remotely successful at it or if local online advertising continues to be stagnant).

By: Ellen

Ellen — Wed, 06 May 2009 01:59:50 +0000

I agree with what’s been said, but there’s an issue that I think is being overlooked. The newspaper industry jumped the gun in the way they provided web content for free. They miscalculated the fact that eyeballs alone would not be enough to cover their costs. They overvalued the paper, undervalued the service of providing the content, and missed the chance to change the value proposition when expectations were still fluid.

The newspaper industry has successfully conditioned the market to perceive that journalism should be free. I think the biggest hurdle will be in convincing the market to mentally decouple the journalism business from the newspaper business. I don’t think this has happened yet in the general market, and until it does, none of Amber’s great list can be adopted.

By: Kevin Anderson

Kevin Anderson — Tue, 05 May 2009 11:24:36 +0000

Unfortunatley the entrenched nature of ‘old way thinkers’ still remains. The concept of ‘keeping’ people at your domain, rather than directing them to other sites that contain related and relevant content prevails.

Great post!

By: Oliver Fritsch

Oliver Fritsch — Mon, 04 May 2009 20:31:49 +0000

Great post. In Germany it will take a few more years to get that.