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Over Three Decades, Tech Obliterated Media
Over Three Decades, Tech Obliterated Media

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Over the past three decades, technology companies have steadily eroded the business models of traditional media organizations by digitizing content and advertising. The author witnessed this firsthand as a reporter in the 1990s, predicting that sites like Craigslist would destroy newspapers' classified ad revenue. Pioneering companies like Yahoo, Google and Facebook then came to dominate the digital landscape and became the new gatekeepers of information. However, these tech giants have also threatened media companies by scraping their content and repackaging it. The author argues that media organizations should fight back legally and continue innovating, rather than accepting their inevitable decline at the hands of large tech platforms.

An interesting point highlighted is that some of the earliest internet companies like Yahoo had human "web crawlers" who manually listed websites in the company's directory, showing just how nascent the digital landscape was in the early days chronicled by the author. This provides useful historical context for understanding the author's perspective.

·nymag.com·
Over Three Decades, Tech Obliterated Media
Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber — Susan Fowler
Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber — Susan Fowler
As most of you know, I left Uber in December and joined Stripe in January. I've gotten a lot of questions over the past couple of months about why I left and what my time at Uber was like. It's a strange, fascinating, and slightly horrifying story that deserves to be told while it is still fresh in
·susanjfowler.com·
Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber — Susan Fowler
Mark Zuckerberg on Threads, the future of AI, and Quest 3
Mark Zuckerberg on Threads, the future of AI, and Quest 3
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg discusses Threads, his feud with Elon Musk, the Quest 3 headset, and the future of AI in a special episode of Decoder.
·theverge.com·
Mark Zuckerberg on Threads, the future of AI, and Quest 3