[LINK] Independent Commentary

[Richard Chirgwin]

The blog model, which people still believe to be some kind of citizen 
journalism, increasingly resembles the business model of the local rag: 
get people to pay for editorial.

For some reason, that business model isn't imagined by the visionaries 
so-called who keep telling us the shape of things to come...

RC

On 10/11/11 7:47 AM, Roger Clarke wrote:
> Apropos of previous discussions about such things as the quality of
> contemporary journalism, and how crowd-reporting will make up for the
> reduction in professional reporting ...
>
> The article below is superficially about the small-mindedness of
> Microsoft Sweden, which got upset because someone wrote to them from
> an iPhone.
>
> The more relevant element in the story is that a blogger claims to be
> independent from the supplier of the product that he writes about,
> yet sought and was about to receive funding from them to 'upgrade'
> his site.
>
> What part of 'independent' does this person not understand?
>
>
> Microsoft cuts off WP7 blogger 'over iPhone use'
> Liam Tung
> Nov 9, 2011 9:05 AM (22 hours ago)
> http://www.itnews.com.au/News/279488,microsoft-cuts-off-wp7-blogger-over-iphone-use.aspx
>
> Microsoft has ditched a funding deal with an independent Swedish
> Windows mobile blogger ...
>
>