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Great roundup of the most significant web technologies — links to lots of top-10 lists, and pulling out the geospatially significant ones. Very useful. Download and listen to the podcast for commentary, but all the links are in the show notes here.
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"Here’s my concern. If I’m right and print advertising costs are fundamentally irrational, then it’s possible that the way we’ve built media in the United States can’t survive a transition to a more rational market. That would be bad. Newspapers aren’t just businesses – they serve a critical function in a democratic society.
"What if advertising worked pretty well as a way of subsidizing public interest journalism only so long as advertisers didn’t understand the effectiveness of their ads? What if ad supported journalism is only viable in a world where we radically overvalue the worth of ads?
"What if the model that brought us Upton Sinclair and Woodward and Bernstein – impression advertising – can’t bring us into the future because it’s based on uneven distribution of information and bad math?"