Thanks to my mesh pal Mike Masnick from Techdirt for pointing me towards a recent column by Jeremy Wagstaff of Loose Wire (and the Wall Street Journal) that I had been meaning to post about. In the column, entitled "The Future of News," Jeremy writes about how it's difficult to talk about the future of news without admitting that the idea of what we call "news" has changed, and is continuing to change. As he puts its:
In the Net Neutrality debate, the last thing phone and cable companies want is a proof of concept. In fact, as one FCC commissioner has noted, avoiding these proofs is what has kept them on relatively good behavior recently. So, it was bad news when torrent users accused Comcast of degrading and blocking torrents over the weekend.
One word that causes a great deal of problems is Webmaster. Perhaps many will disagree with me, but hear me out. I acknowledge that it will be difficult to bury the word. After all even the mighty Google helps to support the word through its immensely useful Google Webmaster Central. However I believe this word and the function that it implies can create a great deal of organizational dysfunction, particularly in big companies.
It’s a well-known fact that most bloggers toil away in obscurity, and that a lucky few manage to obtain all sorts of fame, money, and material goods (or a talented few - I don’t mean to slight anyone). But, oh, what goods - Jalopnik’s Ray Wert recently got his hands on a Camaro convertible concept car.
Major search engines Ask, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo jointly announced at SES New York their support of a new feature that makes sitemaps more valuable to webmasters.
I honestly don't know *exactly* how they might have done things differently, but Google's ubiquity is causing a major workflow nightmare for me, and I'm sure many other users.
I've been writing about companies who are committed to making a difference. I think the issue boils down to a very simple question: "Who else can win?"
It's been a theme lately on various blogs to discuss what's coming next in web measurement, and my new work colleague Greg Yardley puts an interesting idea out there for a metric called page share.
So - in case folks are curious - I now have both a dishwasher and the Internet back at my house. I feel like I've returned to the modern world. (Yes, I'm spoiled.)
It's probably entirely appropriate that if a supercomputer is going to be set up to strive for creative answers to tough questions, that hardware will consist of Apple Xserve G5s.
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