Way back in 2002 Dave Winer made a bet:
In a Google search of five keywords or phrases representing the top five news stories of 2007, weblogs will rank higher than the New York Times’ Web site.
It’s important to remember that in 2002 people still wrote “weblogs” in quotes, as though they weren’t sure how to [...]

Posted January 6, 2009 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches, Technology. Tags: bet, bets, blogs, longnow, new york times, prediction, predictions. Be the first one.

The New York Times has struggled with TimesSelect, now they’re killing it. But the news here isn’t that a media giant is giving up on a much hyped online venture. The news is that a media giant is endorsing what we now call web 2.0:
Since we launched TimesSelect in 2005, the online landscape has altered [...]

Posted September 18, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: linking, new york times, nyt, open access, timesselect, web 2.0, web20. Be the first one.

I’m going to violate my rule against linking to NYT (because) and give a shout out to this article. Not just because it quotes my friend Jessamyn, but for what it says: libraries are full of smart, hip people.
[tags]library 2.0, Jessamyn West, New York Times, libraries, hip, smart[/tags]

Posted July 12, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Blink, Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: hip, Jessamyn West, libraries, library 2.0, new york times, smart. 3 Comments.

The New York Times last week announced that it’s giving away TimesSelect to students and faculty that hold a .edu email address. TimesSelect, of course, is the paid access site that debuted in January 2006 to a confused and critical web. Editor and Publisher repeated the Times’ claim that they’re doing this for the good [...]

Posted March 19, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: google economy, new york times, nyt, timesselect. One Comment.

I’ve been talking about it a lot lately, most recently in a comment at LibDev.
In the old world, information companies could create value by limiting access to their content. Most of us have so internalized this scarcity = value theory that we do little more than grumble about the New York Times’ authwall or similar [...]

Posted July 15, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: accessibility, accessible resources, authoritative, electric forest, google, google economy, information, jenny levine, new york times, oclc, scarcity, search engines, the shifted librarian, value, value equation, value theory. 5 Comments.

George Weller won a Pulitzer Prize, a Polk Award, and was named a Neimann Fellow during his fifty-some-odd year career during which he covered much of Europe and Asia for the New York Times and Chicago Daily News. Weller died in 2002 at age 95, leaving behind a body of work that tells much of [...]

Posted June 17, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy. Tags: censorship, chicago daily news, george weller, governement censors, hiroshima and nagasaki, information campaign, nagasaki, new york times, nuclear, nuclear bomb, nuclear device, nuclear weapon, radiation, radiation poisoning, radiation sickness. 2 Comments.