Category: Ideas We Like

  • …there’s another tension, even as all this content is miraculously made freely available online. While the producers struggle to monetize their work, the content providers from the old media world are desperately trying to regain the lustre of the Golden Age of monopoly pricing — when this stuff was actually hard to create. In other…

  • Check out this Forbes interactive map Where Americans Are Moving (built with 2008 IRS data). Red indicates outgoing migration, black, incoming migration. Here’s Detroit: Now here’s Seattle:

  • Last week I hung out at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism as I saw some of the groundbreaking collaborations its students are engaged in: primarily between computer science and journalism. I get the sense that Medill is preparing for a reality of lean-and-mean newsrooms, with fewer paid staffers, allocating the grunt journalism to alternative…