http://ronamok.com/2008/09/10/the-iceman-cometh/ A storyteling analog engineer who studies the power of networks Wed, 16 May 2012 19:57:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://ronamok.com/2008/09/10/the-iceman-cometh/comment-page-1/#comment-14197 RonAmok! » Atoms and Bits Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:17:06 +0000 http://ronamok.com/?p=161#comment-14197 [...] new industries are being born. Nobody knows exactly how its gonna shake out, but anyone who has studied history knows that changes like these have always made the society richer as opposed to poorer. You just [...] [...] new industries are being born. Nobody knows exactly how its gonna shake out, but anyone who has studied history knows that changes like these have always made the society richer as opposed to poorer. You just [...]

]]> http://ronamok.com/2008/09/10/the-iceman-cometh/comment-page-1/#comment-12807 Kwam Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:04:21 +0000 http://ronamok.com/?p=161#comment-12807 Again, a point well made with a good story! Making this type of change is not easy, which is why the world needs people like you. Another example is Kodak trying to ride the change from film imaging to digital - Look at their stock from 1997 to date. Despite their deep pockets, they failed to reinvenet themselves fast enough. Again, a point well made with a good story! Making this type of change is not easy, which is why the world needs people like you. Another example is Kodak trying to ride the change from film imaging to digital – Look at their stock from 1997 to date. Despite their deep pockets, they failed to reinvenet themselves fast enough.

]]> http://ronamok.com/2008/09/10/the-iceman-cometh/comment-page-1/#comment-14519 Kwam Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:04:00 +0000 http://ronamok.com/?p=161#comment-14519 Again, a point well made with a good story! Making this type of change is not easy, which is why the world needs people like you. Another example is Kodak trying to ride the change from film imaging to digital - Look at their stock from 1997 to date. Despite their deep pockets, they failed to reinvenet themselves fast enough. Again, a point well made with a good story! Making this type of change is not easy, which is why the world needs people like you. Another example is Kodak trying to ride the change from film imaging to digital – Look at their stock from 1997 to date. Despite their deep pockets, they failed to reinvenet themselves fast enough.

]]> http://ronamok.com/2008/09/10/the-iceman-cometh/comment-page-1/#comment-12689 Lou Covey Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:37:03 +0000 http://ronamok.com/?p=161#comment-12689 That's an excellent point, Ron. Most journalists are stuck because they believe the mechanism for delivering information, the one that pays them for what they do, is the only way they can be compensated. Right now, they are right, because the value proposition for social media has not yet been established. But what is also keeping back the tide is the belief that they have to be kept "above" the financial issues in order to be objective. that's a posiotion that jsut doesn't hold water. Right now and for the past 50 years, journalists have been paid exactly for their objectivity. It doesn't really matter where the money comes from as long as they maintain their ethical standards. They are in the business of unemotional observation of what is happening now. What is also holding them back is the unnatural competition to be first and ony with certain information. In today's tay and age, whoever gets the news out first is generally going to be wrong. Journalists need to learn that now, it's their ability to dissect and connect information so it is digestible by the masses no matter how long it takes. That's what makes the Economist such a great publication. That’s an excellent point, Ron. Most journalists are stuck because they believe the mechanism for delivering information, the one that pays them for what they do, is the only way they can be compensated. Right now, they are right, because the value proposition for social media has not yet been established. But what is also keeping back the tide is the belief that they have to be kept “above” the financial issues in order to be objective. that’s a posiotion that jsut doesn’t hold water. Right now and for the past 50 years, journalists have been paid exactly for their objectivity. It doesn’t really matter where the money comes from as long as they maintain their ethical standards. They are in the business of unemotional observation of what is happening now.
What is also holding them back is the unnatural competition to be first and ony with certain information. In today’s tay and age, whoever gets the news out first is generally going to be wrong. Journalists need to learn that now, it’s their ability to dissect and connect information so it is digestible by the masses no matter how long it takes. That’s what makes the Economist such a great publication.

]]> http://ronamok.com/2008/09/10/the-iceman-cometh/comment-page-1/#comment-14518 Lou Covey Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:37:00 +0000 http://ronamok.com/?p=161#comment-14518 That's an excellent point, Ron. Most journalists are stuck because they believe the mechanism for delivering information, the one that pays them for what they do, is the only way they can be compensated. Right now, they are right, because the value proposition for social media has not yet been established. But what is also keeping back the tide is the belief that they have to be kept "above" the financial issues in order to be objective. that's a posiotion that jsut doesn't hold water. Right now and for the past 50 years, journalists have been paid exactly for their objectivity. It doesn't really matter where the money comes from as long as they maintain their ethical standards. They are in the business of unemotional observation of what is happening now. What is also holding them back is the unnatural competition to be first and ony with certain information. In today's tay and age, whoever gets the news out first is generally going to be wrong. Journalists need to learn that now, it's their ability to dissect and connect information so it is digestible by the masses no matter how long it takes. That's what makes the Economist such a great publication. That’s an excellent point, Ron. Most journalists are stuck because they believe the mechanism for delivering information, the one that pays them for what they do, is the only way they can be compensated. Right now, they are right, because the value proposition for social media has not yet been established. But what is also keeping back the tide is the belief that they have to be kept “above” the financial issues in order to be objective. that’s a posiotion that jsut doesn’t hold water. Right now and for the past 50 years, journalists have been paid exactly for their objectivity. It doesn’t really matter where the money comes from as long as they maintain their ethical standards. They are in the business of unemotional observation of what is happening now.
What is also holding them back is the unnatural competition to be first and ony with certain information. In today’s tay and age, whoever gets the news out first is generally going to be wrong. Journalists need to learn that now, it’s their ability to dissect and connect information so it is digestible by the masses no matter how long it takes. That’s what makes the Economist such a great publication.

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