Færslur fimmtudaginn 27. maí 1999

At 02:00: The Danger of Real-time News 

Ted Marks writes about the dangers of real-time news.

Methinks Ted is too cought up in the idea of the big and responsible news-company. Real-time news will happen. If they're not provided by CNN, then by someone else - someone from the general public even. The big news-companies will either have to move with the times and "dump" news out there in real-time, or change dramatically and become in-depth news journals, with more focus on the historical and sociological relevance of the (not so) current events.

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At 01:00: Big News sites vs. word-of-mouth 

(Rant that leads to nowhere)

According to writer Doulas Adams "bad news" is the only thing capable of travelling faster than light. There's some truth in that. And now that we have the Internet, all news can.

The Internet is an extremely powerful communication tool, and it makes word-of-mouth quite viable method of sharing information, again. I don't need CNN to tell me everything that's going on, much of what I know I've "heard" from someone else.

This makes me start to think that big newsites are becoming less and less important. We don't need them as much as we did once, and as the on-line community matures we'll need them even less. What we'll still need, however, is someone we trust to verify the truth of what we've heard. Some person or institution with the reputation of knowing certain stuff for sure and telling the truth. Size does not neccessarily mean trustworthiness.

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