“Newspapers could save a lot of money if the primary access to news was via the Internet.”
Google chief economist Hal Varian, on how print media can shrink itself into some kind of dystopic media future, TechCrunch, 9 March 2010
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WITH FURROWED BROWSERS
“It is a battle not just of mind but of heart as well. We are wanting to make an emotional connection – we are ploughing a different furrow here.”
Unbearably British Microsoft executive Ashley Highfield, on his company’s plans to lose even more money with a marketing campaign for its Bing search engine, Guardian.co.uk, 8 March 2010
AND SOME OF IT WAS ACTUALLY NOT PORN
“February was a month of big milestones for us, possibly the most exciting of which was that you guys viewed Tumblr more than a BILLION times. That’s 36 million times a day, 25,000 times a minute, and more than 400 times a second!”
Tumblr CEO and professional adorablogger David Karp, on the amazing discovery that reinventing GeoCities and LiveJournal with a slightly more emo design can pay off, Tumblr Staff Blog, 8 March 2010
WE READ YOUR PINK SLIP SO YOU DON’T HAVE TO
“What do news organizations need to do to survive? Will books become extinct? When will an audience pay for content? Can video bring television and the internet together? Will the iPad save us all? Keeping up with these changes is time-consuming, as essential media coverage is scattered across numerous web sites at any given moment.”
Mediagazer editrix Megan McCarthy, on how her Techmeme-powered industry-news site might save journalism by allowing reporters to spend less time tracking their employers’ fortunes and more time actually doing their jobs, Mediagazer News, 8 March 2010
YOU CAN’T STOP THE MUSIC
“We were in a pretty deep dark hole for a long time. But now it’s a pretty out-of-body experience.”
Pandora founder Tim Westergren, doing his best to scare away the investment bankers who might be interested in his Internet-music startup, New York Times, 8 March 2010
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