CES was big scary news for big old media, says NYT web-biz guru Saul Hansell. Three areas of threat:
- Business-model anxiety.
- Advertisers pay to create content, and viewers have to watch ads to get that content? Many startups are working to set viewers free from that model.
- Creative anxiety.
- Can any one big content producer hope to snare a correspondingly big chunk of attention?
- Control anxiety.
- What do gatekeepers do when the Internet just routes around the gates?
It’s a very interesting article–read the whole thing.
More bad news for big media–February’s Mashup Camp is already sold out. Time to get on the waiting list for the next one!
