Author: Björn Jeffery

Illegal downloads and social media

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Don’t worry about the gratuitous use of the word “illegal” before the word “download”, that’s just a generation thing. Like saying “social” before “media”. – JP Rangaswami One short quote from an article that has about ten, equally quotable, paragraphs that should be read, and re-read.

On the payment of news

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Through Per-Åke I find a really interesting article written by Jeff Sonderman. You should definitely read all of it, but the key paragraph is this one: “Consumers couldn’t care less how much it costs to produce a product, be it news, clothing or cars. They don’t inspect your production facility and balance sheets to determine whether the price is fair.” Absolutely correct, and valid in every way. I could rant about journalism as non-profit, public […]