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Mobile Futures: rebooting everything

It’s not only newspapers and magazines that are wrestling with this – though, of course, the announcement by Newsweek that it’s going digital-only next year shows that they’re in the frontline. (“Is Heaven real? Newsweek intends to find out”, as one ironist put it on Twitter.)
Add superfast 4G connections – which we’ll have in the UK from next year – and you may wonder if the only safe business is dry-cleaning (though even that is prey to people buying cheap replacement clothes made in China).

Barry Schwartz: The paradox of choice | Video on TED.com

Psychologist Barry Schwartz takes aim at a central tenet of western societies: freedom of choice. In Schwartz’s estimation, choice has made us not freer but more paralyzed, not happier but more dissatisfied.

Wikipedia's Dark Side: Censorship, Revenge Editing & Bribes

“Ever wanted to thoroughly discredit someone who has wronged you? How about doing so under the banner of reputable (and hence, almost untouchable) publishing platform, through which you can alter all manner of facts concerning your enemies to fit your vengeful needs? Journalist and author Johann Hari did precisely that when making alterations to Wikipedia articles related to persons that had given him grief. Hari did all this while masquerading under the pseudonym – or sockpuppet – of David Rose”

Gerd adds: this is exactly what happened to my own “gerd Leonhard” entry. Deleted for some bizarre reason ! Only explanation I have is that I pissed someone off that has internal wiki juice

The Inevitable Disruption of Television - Maxwell Wessel - Harvard Business Review

Youtube, Hulu, and Amazon may not offer good enough content to satisfy the majority of Americans. But for millions of Americans fed up with outrageous fees provided to COX, Time Warner, and Comcast, these internet video portals are slowly becoming “good enough.” Hulu Plus and Netflix can be procured for just $17 per month, roughly 1/3rd the cost of basic cable according to the MACC. So, according to the theory, disruption is coming and there will be a new set of distributors leveraging fundamentally different cost structures to the old regime.