Get Google

Ivan Fallon, chief executive of Independent News and Media, takes
a couple of pages of the Independent on Sunday to make the case that Google is going the way of GM and IBM: “every company contains the seeds of its own destruction and it may be that even Google, the miracle of the new media age, has reached the tipping point in the past week” he writes. Given the challenges that Google is presenting to “big media” there may be more than a little wishful thinking here…

The magazine as process

Interesting quote from Jeff Jarvis on The Buzz Machine: “Perhaps it is better to make magazines less of a product and more of a process, less of a subscription to a thing and more of a membership to a community.” He was discussing the practice of holding back stories for publication rather than talking about the developing story as it is being researched. Worth reading…