The Future Of News
Another news item on the Huffington Post asking for you to help them make news.
I'm sorry--I'm working right now. Perhaps you could have an unpaid intern read through them?
posted by Matt Bors at
3:51 PM
8 Comments:
Well, TPM has had a lot of luck crowdsourcing stuff like this. I'd rather have a bored lawyer on a coffee break surf a few pages than an unpaid intern. More likely to find and properly contextualize juice.
That said, I'd also be more likely to trust TPM's crowdsourcing efforts than HuffPo's, but I'm a prejudiced sonofabitch like that sometimes.
I agree with Kip. Sure HuffPo's a whore, but there's nothing inherently wrong with crowdsourcing. At the very least you have to admit it's more efficient than having one or even a dozen people reading through thousands of pages of legal documents.
I think you're off the hook anyways, Matt, since I doubt HuffPo had cartoonists in mind when they decided to post an open solicitation for legal analysis.
:)
They have asked cartoonists to run their work for free which is even worse.
Now THAT is a fish in a different kettle indeed.
Do you use Facebook? You're posting content, your content, so others can make money off it.
My big concern is that all this 'closed Internet' is going to kill the medium in the same way the FCC killed free/public-access radio and big industry killed the independent printing press.
In the 1800s, the cost of setting up a printing press was about $12k in today's money. By the 1920's/30's, it was $1.2M in today's money. Industry leaders who got lucky and made it big want to control the medium.
"They have asked cartoonists to run their work for free which is even worse."
You post your work here for free. Am I missing something?
yeah, you missed a lot. This is my site. I own it. If a publication, in print or in web, would like to run a cartoonist's work to generate themselves revenue, they should pay for the content that makes up their publication. It's a simple thing to grasp.
Sumit, you're right. Facebook, Myspace and YouTube make money from people providing content for free.
It's a completely different dynamic, however, from news sites wanting free content. If a newspapers printed an article asking readers to help it read through things it would be absurd.
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