Nick Bergus Thoughts on what media do, and can do better, and other things

A too-quick-to-adapt Burger King John P. Garrett’s Newspapers and the Burger King mentality. How would you like your news? I believe the news business has been spinning mostly in circles not because the executives are slow to adapt to new technologies as many of the new media experts gripe. On the contrary, the news business [...]

A quarterback who just doesn’t get it Dave Winer to Jay Rosen, 33 minutes into Rebooting the News #43 It’s like in football. … When the quarterback gets the ball, the quarterback always turns back and runs a few yards back before even thinking about passing the ball. And you think, “Why is the quarterback [...]

William Durant and General Motors Tommy Thomason’s Pew Report is good news and bad news for community journalism William Durant didn’t like automobiles. Durant, who was in the carriage business in the 1890s, thought cars were smelly and noisy, not to mention downright dangerous.  But he realized that automobiles, as distasteful as he thought them to [...]

An arthritic geriatric complaining about being an arthritic Daniel Clowes in The New Yorker “Look at this — a front-page story about how bad things are in the newspaper business! Talk about solipsistic! My god, it’s like listening to an old lady complain about arthritis!” via John McQuaid

The most dominant, but least hip, operating system Scott Rosenberg, in Technologizer‘s “The Future of Windows” (It is actually comparing Microsoft Windows to newspapers, not the other way around, but I say it counts.) Like the newspaper industry, Microsoft simply cannot trade in today’s significant but ultimately dwindling profits for bets on the future. That’s [...]

Boats for buring Marc Andreessen, quoted by Erick Schonfeld in Andreessen’s Advice To Old Media: “Burn The Boats” Legend has it that when Cortes landed in Mexico in the 1500s, he ordered his men to burn the ships that had brought them there to remove the possibility of doing anything other than going forward into [...]