News publishers are again the pawns in a chess game among the big technology platforms, mainly Google, Facebook, and Apple.
And
while publishers are losing control of their future, users are gaining a
better experience with pages that load faster on mobile devices.
This is the scenario that is emerging with the expanded rollout of Facebook's Instant Articles, Google's Accelerated Mobile Pages, and Apple's iOS9 and News products.
I
have spent a weekend reading over expert commentaries on the business
and technical aspects of the latest innovations in Internet technology.
What all three of these innovations have in common is that they
are aimed at serving mobile users better and that they claim to help
publishers gain revenue, audience, and data about users. Many of the commentators are worried that publishers are losing out to the platforms.
Nilay Patel, editor-in-chief of the Verge, was warning back
in November that the battle among Google, Facebook, and Apple to corral
mobile users and advertisers would cause the most damage to independent
digital publishers on the open Web.
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Sunday, February 28, 2016
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Crap Detector Part II: Mr. Daisey's Apple Factory
Crap detector Part I: Credibility as business model
A few weeks ago I listened to a podcast of "This American Life" called "Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory," which was the story of a technology geek who goes to China to see where his iPhone was made.
In the course of the story, the narrator, Mike Daisey, makes assertions about Foxconn, the manufacturer, including that it hires underage workers, overworks employees and exposes them to hazardous chemicals. The story was excerpted from Daisey's one-man stage show.
Bold and intrepid
I was immediately suspicious of Daisey's account because he was so much the protagonist of the story. He depicted himself as bold and daring, as undertaking a task that newspaper reporters had warned him was too risky and dangerous. But he was going anyway to interview Foxconn employees, in defiance of the armed guards at the gates.
A few weeks ago I listened to a podcast of "This American Life" called "Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory," which was the story of a technology geek who goes to China to see where his iPhone was made.
In the course of the story, the narrator, Mike Daisey, makes assertions about Foxconn, the manufacturer, including that it hires underage workers, overworks employees and exposes them to hazardous chemicals. The story was excerpted from Daisey's one-man stage show.
Bold and intrepid
I was immediately suspicious of Daisey's account because he was so much the protagonist of the story. He depicted himself as bold and daring, as undertaking a task that newspaper reporters had warned him was too risky and dangerous. But he was going anyway to interview Foxconn employees, in defiance of the armed guards at the gates.
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