NYT: The Death of the Open Web

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/23/magazine/23FOB-medium-t.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

by derekc • 16 years ago

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pjscott• 16 years ago

They write an article about how iProducts are killing the open web, and don't think to mention Android?

aristus• 16 years ago

Oh, the irony runs much deeper than that.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/business/media/21times.htm...

My theory is that the Old Grey Lady is going senile. Their public editor wrote a piece in 2004 rejecting the idea of the paper of record. Oddly, he went on to become a decent historian. At the same time the paper was pressuring Archive.org to remove nytimes.com from the Archive.

Yes, you heard that right: the New York Times has an explicit policy of removing itself from history in order to close down access to what it publishes. The final giggle is that Archive.org is run by Brewster Khale, the guy who got them onto the web in the first place.

I've been watching them for years and, frankly, I think they have no idea what they are doing.

AgileCyborg• 16 years ago

I moved into a beautiful Ohio wood miles from the shrieking metropolis and its gruesomely boring suburbanites, who oddly resemble the plodding conventionalists who inhabit the hills and vales of Appleland.

The planet is home to a diversity of mind spaces, most of which seem readily content to exchange the excitement and unpredictability of independence for a sliver of security.

You could never pile enough shackles on your willing and compliant users, Jobs.

NYT: The Death of the Open Web

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