business of the web

A flash constituency

• Politics, Technology • ,

Glenn Reynolds has a great new article up on TechCentralStation about the power of horiztonal knowledge and how it has changed the world in the past 10 years- With email, weblogs, bulletin boards, etc., I could, if the topic interested enough people, put together an overnight coalition – a flash constituency – without leaving the […]

Don’t be too sure of parity

• Clip File, Series, Technology •

With today’s news that the FCC would allow further deregulation of the media industry, effectively allowing fewer companies to own more media properties, it’s interesting to note a similar, if ironic trend, going on with the Web. It’s conventional wisdom (for whatever that’s worth) that in traditional media, the fewer the companies the worse the