Future of Internet News?

Matthew asks: "Now that the Internet has become an integral part of many people's lives, it has also become the place where many of us get our daily news reports (think Slashdot, New York Times, etc). The decentralization of the Internet offers many advantages over traditional media such as newspapers and television, as the user has more control over what to view and when to view it. But how does the future of this utopia look? With the uprise of ad blockers, are we going to be able to get our news for free? Will the Internet become a place for the "selected few" with money to spend? How do DRM and Trusted Computing play into the role? What does Darwin say will happen to newspapers, radio, television?"

Comments

Drudge

[Anonymous Coward]

All you need is Drudge...

Re:Bloggers

[BWJones]

I should also have included some relevant links to Internet based news sources bookmarked in Safari:

Slashdot of course.
CNN of course.
NYTimes for the writing and quality of reporting.
BBC for the big mainstream non American news perspective.
Kevin Sites for on the ground reporting in Iraq.
Dan Gillmor for news grassroots news.
CBS for financial info.
CNET for tech news.
Global Security for political defense news.
Google for a good news accumulator.
Cryptome because John manages to pull some pretty damned interesting articles out.
NPR of course. Don't forget to donate.
Reuters because they have the news.
Washington Post for beltway news.
Wall St. Journal for more financial news.
NPR Marketplace for more financial news.
CBS for mainstream US news.
Technocrat for real science oriented geek news, like Slashdot only with less noise.
Oh, yeah and
Macsurfer for a Macintosh community oriented news accumulator.

Free News?

[Sonicated]

With the uprise of ad blockers, are we going to be able to get our news for free?

Thanks to the beeb, I will get free news.

Re:Bloggers

[mjinks]

Interesting, as I was just reading about this very subject. These articles, by Jay Rosen of the NYU School of Journalism (one to be presented at a seminar at Harvard), are timely and very relevant to this discussion. It seems that The Greensboro News & Record is seen as the up and coming model of what an internet newspaper will be.

Top Ten Ideas of '04: "Content Will be More Important than its Container" http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthi nk/2005/01/01/tptn_cntr.html

Bloggers vs. Journalists is Over http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthi nk/2005/01/15/berk_pprd.html

More Undercurrent: Action in Greensboro on Open Source Journalism http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthi nk/2004/12/18/grns_nr.html

Greensboro Newspaper Goes Open Source: A Follow Up http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthi nk/2004/12/21/grnsbr_flw.html

Re:Darwin

[maxpublic]

Darwinism, for example, is based soundly upon empirical evidence that supports evolutionary theory. Social darwinism is nothing more than pseudoscience, a completely unscientific attempt to extend the principles of biological evolution to the social sciences. Usually favored by those attempting to justify their own privileged position in life, or to explain away social injustices which they themselves profit from.

Max