Broken business models old and new
Ice was a fantastic business, for two thousand years… they were probably having conferences like this, talking about ice ponds and straw and shipping routes…Then in 1873 a guy named Perkins invented refrigeration. And your ice business was dead.
Michael Rosenberg, quoted from Doc Searls’ shortterm memory, speaking at the IMA conference in Boston, where people are wondering - as Doc puts it - “What happens to public broadcasting now that the public can do it?” It seems to me that the fundamental problem with public broadcasting is that it doesn’t have a business model, insofar as the nature of its funding is concerned. Why on earth should money be taken from you, whether you like it or not, to pay for this stuff?
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