[IP] more on The digital home - Science fiction?

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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Sent: 05/09/05 8:14:49 AM
To: "dave@farber.net"<dave@farber.net>
Subject: Re: [IP] more on The digital home - Science fiction?

Dave:

The enforced "rear-view mirror" journalism nowadays in technology is, well, 
predictable.  These guys just can't help but be wrong again.  And, again.

After having missed the Bubble as it inflated and then refusing to report on 
the simple reasons why these techno-economic resets have occured over and over 
(see Carlota Perez), publications like the Economist (and the Wall Street 
Journal and Forbes and the New York Times, etc.) have reverted to rearguard 
attempts to protect their own dwindling slice of the shrinking mass media pie.

Business magazine advertising is off big time.  Down 40% in some cases.  The 
"winners" are only down 20%.

The Economist has been particularly bad -- having missed nearly every 
significant event in technology for the past 10+ years -- and has been totally 
clueless about what is now going on.  Two years into the build-out of a new systems 
platform, the Economist hasn't reported on a single significant development.

Personal media has replaced mass media and publications like the Economist 
are hurting.  No wonder they have to run besides-the-point articles like this 
one.  

Sheesh,

Mark Stahlman
New York City







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