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Future of Internet News?

Posted by Cliff on from the not-your-father's-style-of-journalism dept.

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?"

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  1. Nothing for you to see here. Please move along. by CypherXero · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.

    1. Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along. by northcat · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Parent post is insightful. Which moron modded it as offtopic?

  2. Three Slashdot Prophets by WormholeFiend · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    BLOOD & THUNDER SLASHDOTTER: ...And the bezan shall be huge and black, and the eyes thereof red with the blood of living creatures, and the whore of Babylon shall ride forth on a three-headed serpent, and throughout the lands, there'll be a great rubbing of parts. Yeeah...

    FALSE SLASHDOTTER: ...For the demon shall bear a nine-bladed sword. Nine-bladed! Not two or five or seven, but nine, which he will wield on all wretched sinners, sinners just like you, sir, there, and the horns shall be on the head, with which he will...

    BORING SLASHDOTTER: ...Obadiah, his servants. There shall, in that time, be rumours of things going astray, erm, and there shall be a great confusion as to where things really are, and nobody will really know where lieth those little things wi-- with the sort of raffia work base that has an attachment. At this time, a friend shall lose his friend's hammer and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before, about eight o'clock. Yea, it is written in the book of Cyril that, in that time, shall the third one...

    COMMANDER TACO: Don't you, eh, moderate other people, or you might get moderated yourself.

    MODERATOR: What?

    COMMANDER TACO: I said, 'Don't pass judgment on other people, or else you might get judged, too.'

    SLASHDOTTER: Who, me?

    COMMANDER TACO: Yes.

    MODERATOR: Oh. Ooh. Thank you very much.

    COMMANDER TACO: Well, not just you. All of you.