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...people who produce content," she says, "and we get a hundred requests a day from editors and reporters to link to them." Not everyone is so thrilled. "HuffPo regularly borrows a chunk of our stories and repays us with a tiny link at the bottom," says a prominent Web editor. "It's a practice that really annoys...
...magazines, newspapers, books, TV shows and movies - one step closer to fixing our badly broken business model. (The perfect media device also needs to be able to do video.) Once we've got the All-Media Device, we're back in business. In the meantime, the migration from the Web to the post-Web world - where content is easier to consume on new mobile devices, but no longer free - is fully underway. (Read about the new iPod Shuffle...
...love the Web, of course, and fully expect it to continue as the free repository of all information. As a Database of Everything, it is the crowning achievement of civilization. And I absolutely believe that it's possible for certain kinds of low-overhead content producers to eke out a living here, attracting enough audience to generate modest ad revenue. So far, this has worked best for curators, scavengers and commentators - the three pillars of the Temple of Blog - and others who purvey short-form stuff...
...Web, via computer, offers a lousy deep-reading experience. (That's why its signal application was called a "browser.") The Web has too many distractions in the form of links, e-mails, instant messages and now Twitters. Besides, if a device has a real keyboard, it's for "writing," not reading - the user is primed more for output than input. Amazon was the first to exploit that weakness and is building a billion-dollar business built around a gadget aimed at people who read offline. In fact, it has already supposedly sold more than...
...Kindle was the first baby step toward the post-Web world. The FLEPia, and its descendents, is another. The march is picking up speed: The iPhone is a terrific example of a post-Web device. Yes, you can use it to browse the Web, but it works so much better via the native iPhone applications that you download...