Comments on Jed White's Blog: Why isn't there more investment in new media start...

There are some interesting comments on this story ...

2009-05-11T18:08:00.000-07:00

There are some interesting comments on this story too at YCombinator Hacker News:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=604421

I think people come up with ways of using new tech...

2009-05-11T17:58:00.000-07:00

I think people come up with ways of using new technologies that have been created to create new businesses in ways that are often completely unexpected too - certainly in ways that their inventors often didn't expect.

There are many media technologies that have ended up being popular for uses other than that for which they were intended.

I think you are exactly right in talking about med...

2009-05-11T17:35:00.000-07:00

I think you are exactly right in talking about media businesses rather than media products. Too many people talk about the "evolution of books" or the "evolution of magazines", but what will emerge is something that is likely to bear little resemblance to what you can buy today at Barnes & Noble. And it would take an exceptionally enlightened and open-minded legacy media business to come out a winner.