"Assange is not trying to produce a journalistic scandal which will then provoke red-faced government reforms or something, precisely because no one is all that scandalized by such things any more. Instead, he is trying to strangle the links that make the conspiracy possible, to expose the necessary porousness of the American state’s conspiratorial network in hopes that the security state will then try to shrink its computational network in response, thereby making itself dumber and slower and smaller."

"[A] new report from PricewaterhouseCoopers on the future of the entertainment and media industries forecasts even greater turmoil over the next five years." Continued growth in mobile use and social media will drive changes.

"This flourishing ecosystem of startups is just one sign that scientific publishing is moving from being a production industry to a technology industry. A second sign of this move is that the nature of information is changing."

"If news orgs like the NYT, Washington Post, and hundreds of newspaper sites start linking to news and other content around the web in a big way ... they can completely disrupt the balance of power." Read in conjunction with Nick Carr's post on the centripetal web (http://is.gd/4pFV), points way of web publishing future, just as dominated by big media as so-called old media.