Comments on: Morning Links: January 9, 2009 http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/01/morning-links-january-9-2009/ A collaborative effort to figure out the future of journalism. A project of Harvard University. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:28:00 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dan http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/01/morning-links-january-9-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-1268 Dan Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:15:22 +0000 http://www.niemanlab.org/?p=768#comment-1268 The Google item is innerstin -- not clear Google gets news, per the recent comments about the company not buying newspapers. Vint Cerf of Google gave a talk at USATODAY a few months ago and relentlessly talked about news as a "commodity". Someone in the audience mentioned to him that almost every news story was a non-commodity (stock ticker updates aside) and a difference existed between an investigation and a city council update, thus thinking of them as commodities might not be the smartest approach. He didn't seem to see the point. The Google item is innerstin — not clear Google gets news, per the recent comments about the company not buying newspapers. Vint Cerf of Google gave a talk at USATODAY a few months ago and relentlessly talked about news as a “commodity”.

Someone in the audience mentioned to him that almost every news story was a non-commodity (stock ticker updates aside) and a difference existed between an investigation and a city council update, thus thinking of them as commodities might not be the smartest approach. He didn’t seem to see the point.

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