Jemima Kiss, who writes on web matters for the Guardian, picks up on the Dazed & Confused launch, and ponders personal ads on the London Review of Books.
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Tim O’Reilly, who has been a stalwart defender of the Google Book Search project, has picked up on some criticisms of the balkanised searching landscape which is where various Book Search projects are headed. It is the isolation of these privately scanned book-content ‘silos’ that is getting troublesome to web idealists. Tim O’Reilly has a particularly clever but obvious solution which should win acceptance with book and magazine publishers:
… Keep ReadingBook search engines ought to search publishers’ content repositories, rather
The weekly magazine on Quaker topics published by the Society of Friends since 1842.
The Notices and Classified Ads have immediate utility and added value in a web format. ABC should please take note.
Greenslade at the Guardian notes some off-hand remarks from Niklas Zennström:
“I don’t read as much paper as I used to and I think they will obviously be challenged. The thing that is a challenge is the daily press – you have free newspapers and quality newspapers and they each have to find their own markets, but I don’t think they’re dead…..There’s always going to be a need for in-depth journalism.”
Greenslade comments:
… Keep ReadingI agree with him about the