We had a small but important announcement in the paper today about our parent company—and by default the Journal—joining forces with Yahoo! to sell online classified advertising. Classified was for years the exclusive domain of newspapers, but that franchise has eroded in recent years, and it will likely continue to erode.
So this is in some sense an acknowledgement that we need partners to help us navigate the commercial world of the Web.
Yahoo! is also moving into the news business as well. It has some original content, but it still is mostly an aggregator of others content. That’s also likely to change in coming years. Ultimately, I think, the definition of news will adopt and adapt to Internet models that emphasize quick bites and multiple authors and opinions with very little in the middle that resembles the conventional, dispassionate stories in the newspaper.
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Ken,
I found your blog when a friend sent me the link for it. Your entries seem very elevated and interesting, and as a Journalism major at UNC I can’t help but appreciate them. However, I just can’t get past the fact that you look strikingly similar to Gary Cole (as seen in Office Space, etc.) Do you see the resemblance??
-Katherine
Ha: That’s a new one. Here’s what Cole looks like.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0170550/
From my memory of Office Space, he’s the guy who says all the time “That’ll be great.”
In previous and current lives, people have said I looked like
Harry Anderson of Night Court fame:
http://night_court.tripod.com/images/gallery/castphotos/harry02.jpg
and somebody the other day said I looked—at least from a good distance—like Robert Moody of the Winston-Salem symphony:
http://www.wssymphony.org/about_us/music_director.html
I see the Anderson, will take the Moody.
Thanks for making me chuckle.
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