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THE ELECTRONIC BOOK BURNING by Alan Kaufman (Evergreen Review No. Hyperdistribution. The newspaper industry should be sobered by Martin Langeveld’s calculations, based on the Newspaper Association of America’s misplaced bragging about Nielsen internet data, that only about a half one one percent of time spent online is spent on newspaper sites.

Hyperdistribution

It is clear that if journalists want to be supported – let alone have impact and influence and find their days worthwhile – they need more people to spend more time with news. I believe they should be doing the opposite of what is being suggested in many quarters: clamping down controls to try to fight aggregators and search engines, threatening to build pay walls, consolidating content into destinations they’d have to work harder to get people to visit. Nonprofit journalism: The journey from anomaly to a new paradigm. Journalism nonprofits have been operating in the shadows of major metro dailies since the dawn of the newspaper age.

Nonprofit journalism: The journey from anomaly to a new paradigm

In 1846, a handful of New York newspapers created a cooperative to pay for dispatches from the front lines of the Mexican-American War. That effort became the Associated Press, and it remains a nonprofit. But what once was an anomaly is becoming a business model in its own right. This is an historic time, with new nonprofit newsrooms launching every month. The Ruins of the Unsustainable: Searching For Answ. The Ruins of the Unsustainable: Searching For Answers to the Suburbs "The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century's frontier.

The Ruins of the Unsustainable: Searching For Answ

" We've been pondering that statement by Worldchanging ally Bruce Sterling for nearly two years now. In North America, several decades of bad development (and the government policies that enabled and encouraged it) have resulted in unchecked sprawl and played no small part in our global financial meltdown. Far-flung exurban areas have swallowed up miles of greenfield, replacing farmland and woods with pavement and lawns, and costing taxpayers a fortune in what's possibly the least efficient form of infrastructure: providing utilities and public services to a small number of people spread out over an large area. The social impacts of sprawl are arguably just as harmful.