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Kevin: Umair says: “Facebook’s DNA was built for the massconomy. Unfortunately, Facebook is at the forefront of the edgeconomy. This fundamental strategic mismatch is why Facebook’s problems are growing – and will continue to accelerate.”
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Kevin: Steve Karp says that Facebook got it so wrong with Beacon, their ad network because “it’s acting like a traditional media company with monopoly control of its channel.” But how many other media companies behave this way? Almost all of them.
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Kevin: Jeff Jarvis sets the record straight. This isn’t about us versus them, professional journalists versus bloggers or citizen journalists. It’s collaborative, which is why the term networked journalism is not only more used these days but also more ap
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Kevin: How much data are we willing to put in the ‘clouds’? Interesting article about cloud computing. This is really an old extension of the client-server model, this time looking at distributed storage and services.
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Kevin: What a great edition for a real estate section, a blog written by a couple building their dream home. Brilliant idea and well done. Lots of quality comments and a good sense of community here.
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Kevin: FCC clearance of aspects of Sam Zell’s Tribune deal are the easy part. The heavily leveraged deal now looks more than optimistic. Zell is left looking for ways to extract more revenue from the sale of the Chicago Cubs.
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Kevin: Looking at whether e-Ink could swing newspapers back into the black. I’m sceptical. But in this article, cutting print costs could save a hypothetical newspaper 38% of its revenues. But that’s assuming similar reach and revenues.
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Kevin: Roy Greenslade, one of our best bloggers at the Guardian, is always a winner in my mind, but in this case, Roy is given kudos for great blog design and readability on the iPhone. An unforeseen benefit of our redesign earlier this year.
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Kevin: New York Times reports on how the Associated Press is reorganising for a 24-hours news cycle and multimedia working in a move called the “Digital Cooperative”.