Comments on: Rearranging the lipstick on a sinking pig

By: Christopher

Christopher — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 01:35:02 +0000

I used to think the solution was “empower your tech-savviest staffers to incubate new ideas.”

But now I’m wondering: If the solution to this problem were easy enough for a few scrappy young’uns to implement at any given company, then why wouldn’t those same folks just up and launch the site themselves, given the ridiculously low barriers to entry cheap hosting and open-source solutions have brought about?

Maybe the real question is, “what do the resources available to traditional news organizations (money, staff, reputation) allow them to do that three people in a garage couldn’t?”

By: Tom Shelley

Tom Shelley — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:27:03 +0000

Getting out of bigcorpthink thinking is so hard. There’s a constant belief that ‘We can’t do it that way because we’re xxxxxx’, ‘We can’t make a mistake because we’re xxxxxx’.

Acting like a startup is tough unless you’re eating ramen.

By: Megan Taylor

Megan Taylor — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:57:59 +0000

I get strange looks when I say I want to start my career at a tiny daily or weekly. But how much freedom would I have to play at a bigger paper? The less red tape, the better.