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Ballmer on Newspapers: Wrong Again [view article]
Newspapers will not disappear as long as the cable companies keep includig them in their subscriptions 'free' and keep throwing them in your dirveway, no matter how many times you ask them to stop. I have tried several times but its no use. They lay in my driveway, it rains, and they turn into turds that I have to shovel up. I wish Ballmer was right though. ReplyBallmer on Newspapers: Wrong Again [view article]
Ballmer is the dumbest CEO in the country. He has not been right on anyting of importance in his entire tenure as CEO. He is wrong about newspapers. ReplyMicrosoft's Ballmer Kills Print [view article]
If he only half right there is merit in delivery and connectivity...Thus a Yahoo purchase is required to help get there. Content is everywhere! ReplyMicrosoft's Ballmer Kills Print [view article]
Ballmer's vision of the printed word only reflects the mindset of someone deluded enough to want to buy Yahoo.....(Yahoo is a backwards-thinking corporate mess only concerned with bonuses and corporat peck order squabbling, as anyone knowing anyone who has worked there is totally aware)...sure there will be a fallout in the printed world.....and I suspect there will be a lot more pictures and fewer words as digital cameras make pictures cheaper and decline in education and demand for anything more than sound bite makes serious journalism scarcer....even now, photography has been (with few exceptions)turning into the sorting of stochastic images as opposed to the clarity and thoughtful selectivity demanded by the slower and far more expensive constraints imposed by the halide image as practiced by Eisenstadt, Cartier-Bresson, David Douglas Duncan, Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and their generation and forbears..although the net is a truly wonderful development in the advancement of communication and information distribution, it has not really found a replacement for the photojournalism lost with LIFE magazine, and is not inherently capable of doing so...fundamentally the intrinsic characteristics of what might be termed spirit and soul of the net is not of the same cloth as of the printed word.....
It is a tragic loss to print that newspapers no longer can (or have not yet learned to) generate the resources absolutely necessary to support the extensive research staff needed to produce thought provoking reflective journalism..at some point, hopefully as soon as possible, there be a backlash to mass shallowness, (don't hold your breath quite yet) and there will be a stable niche for thoughtful printed word....
The same phemomenon as newspapers are experiencing has already happened in the world of science--two generations ago primary scientific literature consisted of books by a single author (possibly with one or two close collaborators) who really understood, and could explain with absolute command and clarity, the overall broad aspects of his field .....the scientific "book" has now devolved almost exclusively into sound bite compilations of proliferating publish-or-perish symposia...meaningfuln... has largely fallen prey to "news"..it is bit hard to envision a Newton writing "Principia", or Laplace writing "la Mecanique Celeste" in this day and age......
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Print Is Toast - Ballmer [view article]
Look at the issues in their distinct parts:Ballmer was addressing the DELIVERY modalities.
Internet content delivery will still be supported by printers, which are likely to become more sophisticated.
Oral transmissions (unless captured on other media) are of transient value or impact on cognition, but function well with the objectives of commercial advertising; whilst the latter is often disruptive in the other formats.
Demand for news and information content will continue, but the BUSINESS MODELS for its production (like that for visual media elsewhere) will have to change and adapt.
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Ballmer on Newspapers: Wrong Again [view article]
I am hardcopy subscriber to 2 papers, I am 50, see very few people under 35 buying newspapers regularly which is sad as need support for local coverage or all we will get is national news. Lets face it, many 20 somethings spend more time of Facebook than reading any news from any sources. ReplyBallmer on Newspapers: Wrong Again [view article]
my son is a producer for AP online and HE has several magazine subscriptions and reads actual books. since he's in a newsroom all the time, he doesn't get newspapers delivered, but he does read them all online (we both read the Washington Post online).if you go into a large bookstore, you'll see people loading up on magazines to read and you'll see the kids reading those 'adult comics' and magazines AND books. they ALL have computers, often with them, but they still read the word printed on paper.
i design special zoo exhibits and i always include books the kids can look through...and they go straight to them, holding them close when they leave, not wanting to let go of them. This bodes well for the printed word at least through the next 2 generations!
and have you noticed that there are a lot more magazines these days?
there's a reason. Reply
Ballmer on Newspapers: Wrong Again [view article]
No need to bash the writer because he is a print journalist. Msft's past prophesies were mostly off base. ReplyMcSweeney
Ballmer on Newspapers: Wrong Again [view article]
If i enjoy reading a 'magazine' online, I will order an old fashioned subscription so I can also enjoy reading it offline. I cannot read a PC screen leaning back in my recliner as easy as I can a magazine.Print vs Screen is not as valid as PC vs Typewriter Reply
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Ballmer on Newspapers: Wrong Again [view article]
Totally agree with the article. Radio didn't kill newspapers, TV didn't, Internet won't either.Reply
Ballmer on Newspapers: Wrong Again [view article]
The above commentor is totally correct.The author used to be a respected tech writer but this is some of the worst Micro-bashing I've ever read.
Is there anyone involved in technology a little that doesn't believe that print will end up in niche markets at best?
The author clearly has decided that his integrity and professionalism as a writer is worth throwing away to jump in with the crowd and write a bunch of bias crap. Reply
Microsoft's Ballmer Kills Print [view article]
As an aside comment, I remember all the talk about the "paperless" office back in 1984. Are they paperless today, nearly a quarter century later? I thought not. ReplyMicrosoft's Ballmer Kills Print [view article]
Steve Ballmer is self-serving in saying what he does, but Jeff Jarvis and the other media hacks are simply gullible in re-iterating the received wisdom that newspapers and magazines will simply disappear in X years. I would pay three times the current cost of a newspaper so that I can carry on reading it in bed on a Saturday morning. I am sorry, but perching a laptop in bed with the battery pack scorching my abdomen just does not cut it. There must be millions of people like me. Maybe newspapers and magazines will become niche products, but to say they will disappear is utter bunk. Now if only we could make computers, cellphones and PDAs disappear and go back to the way we were in less stressful times... ReplyPseudonym
Print Is Toast - Ballmer [view article]
The death of paper is tied to it's customers.My 70 year old mom will never trade the "paper" for a computer.
I sometimes read a paper, but rarely pay for it.
Will my 8 year old pay for printed news in 20 years? I doubt it...
So as the "paper" generation dies so will printed news.
News won't die though, just how it's delivered... Reply
Ballmer on Newspapers: Wrong Again [view article]
yet another in a long series of MSFT bashing posts. So many little stories about how MSFT did not get this or that. Or how doomed they are. And yet decades after these stories started MSFT is bigger stronger richer.The real reason most of the fluff bits are written is to get more click through to blogs and sites.
Why not just write a please click here to boost me thanks ... Reply