Comments on: Ownership rundown: who owns who in tech pubs http://ryanblock.com/2008/05/ownership-rundown-who-owns-who-in-tech-pubs/ Editor and technology critic in the midst of founding a new web startup: gdgt. Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:44:30 -0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tequila http://ryanblock.com/2008/05/ownership-rundown-who-owns-who-in-tech-pubs/#comment-103637 Tequila Tue, 20 May 2008 08:04:07 +0000 http://www.ryanblock.com/?p=839#comment-103637 Nice overview Ryan. It's funny to see how (tech)blogs are becoming the new TV-stations and newspapers on the media-ownership markets. Would you or Peter ever imagined working for AOL? The nice thing about the internet however is it's low threshold for new startups. So should something go very wrong in the future (like one or two corps owning all popular sites, Murdoch-wise) there will always be the possibility to visit (or start it yourself) an independent source. At least thats my own romantic vision. I'm writing my PhD thesis about user powered news selection on the internet through tagclouds (folksonomies), comparing them to printed newspapers. Very nice to see there's a difference in news selection. So news (tech news for sure) on the internets has a bright and shining future. Nice overview Ryan.
It’s funny to see how (tech)blogs are becoming the new TV-stations and newspapers on the media-ownership markets. Would you or Peter ever imagined working for AOL?

The nice thing about the internet however is it’s low threshold for new startups. So should something go very wrong in the future (like one or two corps owning all popular sites, Murdoch-wise) there will always be the possibility to visit (or start it yourself) an independent source. At least thats my own romantic vision.

I’m writing my PhD thesis about user powered news selection on the internet through tagclouds (folksonomies), comparing them to printed newspapers. Very nice to see there’s a difference in news selection. So news (tech news for sure) on the internets has a bright and shining future.

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