The newspaper industry has staked its future on failed legacy newspaper editorial systems that require “tremendous effort and patience“. GateHouse Media could not implement this old desktop software masquerading in the “cloud” because it required too much bandwidth. Seriously! What is this, 1996? This legacy print CMS software is so ineffective, so destructive to digital [...]

In my contribution to the Nieman Journalism Lab’s 2011 Prediction series, I agree with Clay Shirky’s prediction about the disruption of the traditional news syndication model, but disagree (yes, I disagreed with Clay Shirky) about how the disruption will play out.  Here’s an excerpt: The desktop web has been a revolutionary platform in terms of [...]