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Posted on April 8, 2009 | tags

 
 

Biz, Tech: Google CEO Eric Schmidt thinks newspapers need more innovation

  • innovate Schmidt spoke at the the Newspaper Assn. of America conference yesterday, where he told his audience, “You can architect a structure where innovation is welcome, and where it’s taken advantage of.” (In other words, don’t lay people off!)
  • aggregate Schmidt also told the audience that the AP’s crazy plan to piss off their customers wasn’t going to work. Information doesn’t flow that way, so putting it back into the bottle isn’t going to work. He suggests embracing the aggregation instead. source
 
  • Jon

    Silly newspapers. I love them. That’s why it’s so hard to see them try to fail. They need to wake up and focus on becoming vital not on making money doing the same thing papers have been doing for years. You should see the piece Charles Apple wrote http://www.visualeditors.com/apple/

  • Jon

    Silly newspapers. I love them. That’s why it’s so hard to see them try to fail. They need to wake up and focus on becoming vital not on making money doing the same thing papers have been doing for years. You should see the piece Charles Apple wrote http://www.visualeditors.com/apple/

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