I think that also has something to do with The Yellow Pages being licensed or whatever to everyone and their cousin who wants to dump a phone book on your lawn.
One more thing that was destroyed along with the Bell System. But AT&T isn't a monopoly now, oh no. In fact, they should just merge with everyone else in the same businesses, that would be just peachy.
(In advance of the acquisition, DNAinfo laid off a slew of experienced editors and reporters.)
Kind of weird.
Reading The Gothamist announcement of the acquisition, for someone who "started this as a hobby", Chung is very good at corporate-speak, and these don't sound like a journalist's words at all.
But i am glad this local news thing i never heard of can leverage the synergies of some weird far-right news thing i never heard of. Sounds like a match made in heaven.
but lately we've been thinking about how to take our growth to the next level.
Don't do it organically based on what your market will actually bear, whatever you do. Oh wait, you are executives more than journalists now, you don't care if it all takes a dump down the road.
But now i see why they axed NY and Chi staff at DNAinfo. They are being replaced mostly by the existing Gothamist set.
I somehow think we already passed the stage of unbiased quality journalism stage. (Which is somehow magically accomplished by providing "opinions from both sides". How fractally wrong can you get?)
I didn't mean to suggest that our reptilian police overlords weren't an occupying force from a different planet. Just that they couldn't find an intimately connected state agency with both hands and a flashlight.
Just like the way they made it illegal in the first place, rather than a civil matter, in cases outside the mass sale of content to which one does not have the rights.
Which has a bit to do with a comment below about who rightsholders and their private government police forces choose to go after for infringement, and how ridiculously out of proportion punishments are for average individuals.
That's a sort of interesting choice, Kodak, in that i think much of the time it is good for such entities to simply die. Why should a business perpetuate itself when the products they provide are no longer necessary? Clinging to life only from the business end is one possible reason a lot of companies just suck. No one wants to be good at providing the thing they were built upon. They just want to keep existing and taking money. So they merge and acquire and sell off and "diversify", while the "core business" suffers.
Some things should die when their time has come. They shouldn't be destroying the product/service landscape (if it isn't already dying, like Kodak's was) because they want to turn into a different kind of company.
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One more thing that was destroyed along with the Bell System. But AT&T isn't a monopoly now, oh no. In fact, they should just merge with everyone else in the same businesses, that would be just peachy.
It's all a yuuge conspiramacy, i tells ya.
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(In advance of the acquisition, DNAinfo laid off a slew of experienced editors and reporters.)
Kind of weird.
Reading The Gothamist announcement of the acquisition, for someone who "started this as a hobby", Chung is very good at corporate-speak, and these don't sound like a journalist's words at all.
But i am glad this local news thing i never heard of can leverage the synergies of some weird far-right news thing i never heard of. Sounds like a match made in heaven.
but lately we've been thinking about how to take our growth to the next level.
Don't do it organically based on what your market will actually bear, whatever you do. Oh wait, you are executives more than journalists now, you don't care if it all takes a dump down the road.
But now i see why they axed NY and Chi staff at DNAinfo. They are being replaced mostly by the existing Gothamist set.
I somehow think we already passed the stage of unbiased quality journalism stage. (Which is somehow magically accomplished by providing "opinions from both sides". How fractally wrong can you get?)
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I didn't mean to suggest that our reptilian police overlords weren't an occupying force from a different planet. Just that they couldn't find an intimately connected state agency with both hands and a flashlight.
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Oh, wait...
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Which has a bit to do with a comment below about who rightsholders and their private government police forces choose to go after for infringement, and how ridiculously out of proportion punishments are for average individuals.
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Some things should die when their time has come. They shouldn't be destroying the product/service landscape (if it isn't already dying, like Kodak's was) because they want to turn into a different kind of company.
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Sure, anyone can file a lawsuit. Have fun with that.
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and associated goodwill,
(snort)
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Also, get off the lawn. That'll be twenty quid.
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I'm not really sure what "cavalcade of public relation bloviation" means...
I think he means that AT&T commercial with the fireflies from several years ago.
but I intend to add it to my daily vocabulary.
It seems like it would be more insanely useful a thing than ever in the current climate. I could even go for it on a t-shirt in some form.
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Higher price and bandwidth caps.
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