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Nick Denton Predicts 'The Good Internet' Will Rise Again (pcworld.com)
Gawker founder Nick Denton argued today that the future will be rooted in sites like Reddit which involve their reader community -- even if there's only a handful of subtopics each user is interested in. "There's a vitality to it and there's a model for what [media] could be," he told an audience at the South by Southwest festival.
But when it comes to other social media sites, "Facebook makes me despise many of my friends and Twitter makes me hate the rest of the world," Denton said. And he attempted to address America's politically-charged atmosphere where professional news organizations struggled to pay their bills while still producing quality journalism. An anonymous reader quotes PCWorld: The internet played a huge role in this crisis, but despite it all, Denton thinks the web can be the solution to the problems it created. "On Google Hangouts chats or iMessage you can exchange quotes, links, stories, media," he said. "That's a delightful, engaging media experience. The next phase of media is going to come out of the idea of authentic, chill conversation about things that matter. Even if we're full of despair over what the internet has become, it's good to remind yourself when you're falling down some Wikipedia hole or having a great conversation with somebody online -- it's an amazing thing. In the habits that we enjoy, there are the seeds for the future. That's where the good internet will rise up again."
To show his support for news institutions, Denton has also purchased a paid subscription to the New York Times' site.
But when it comes to other social media sites, "Facebook makes me despise many of my friends and Twitter makes me hate the rest of the world," Denton said. And he attempted to address America's politically-charged atmosphere where professional news organizations struggled to pay their bills while still producing quality journalism. An anonymous reader quotes PCWorld: The internet played a huge role in this crisis, but despite it all, Denton thinks the web can be the solution to the problems it created. "On Google Hangouts chats or iMessage you can exchange quotes, links, stories, media," he said. "That's a delightful, engaging media experience. The next phase of media is going to come out of the idea of authentic, chill conversation about things that matter. Even if we're full of despair over what the internet has become, it's good to remind yourself when you're falling down some Wikipedia hole or having a great conversation with somebody online -- it's an amazing thing. In the habits that we enjoy, there are the seeds for the future. That's where the good internet will rise up again."
To show his support for news institutions, Denton has also purchased a paid subscription to the New York Times' site.
And idiots like you need to realise that 96% of the worlds population are NOT US citizens and are perfectly entitled to put USA LAST.
We too can state that "no deal is better than a bad deal"
We already see this with tourist numbers to the USA plummeting.
Also at risk is $2Trillion in exports.
There is very little if anything that is made in the USA that can not be sourced elsewhere. Worse, US companies who manufacture and export will be quick to leave the USA and set up shop elsewhere to keep access to that 96%. So if anything you are looking at loosing MORE jobs.
Asia is the biggest growing market, the USA essentially a saturated one, so it far more important for firms that want customer growth to have access to Asia (60% of the world population) than the USA 4%.
There is no "rule" that says the USA must or will win. We the 96% are NOT beholden to the USA, we are not subject to US law, we can not be forced to buy US goods and products. So go for it, start a trade war, the long term looser will be the USA.
In the 1960s the USA accounted for about 60% of the entire worlds GDP, now it is 20% and falling. So keep pissing people off, keep pissing your friends off its only going to hasten the fall. Every other empire in history has fallen, the USA is not immune.
Sure loss of trade with the USA will hurt, but heres the thing, people adapt and technology allows them to adapt faster than before, so it will only be years, maybe a decade before the world is back to where it was, without the USA, mean while the USA is much much worse off.
Oh, and here is the great thing about capitalism, labour is simply another item that can be bought from multiple vendors. China has not stolen any US jobs, it just used capitalism where by it did a better job cheaper. So why you cheered on Amazon for putting bookstores out of business, the same principle applied to US jobs, manufacturers has to produce more, better, cheaper because americans voted with their wallets and demanded it. Well now you have it, those jobs left the USA and will not come back.
Demand away that stuff must be made in the USA, we the 96% will demand it is not. And we the 96% who also have 80% of the worlds GDP have more say than you do.