Xark!: The “Lack of Vision” thing? Well, here’s a hopeful vision for you

Posted on May 21, 2009 by Chris

Xark!: The "Lack of Vision" thing? Well, here’s a hopeful vision for you – Adrian's written before about the need to capture more and more structured data — instead of or in addition to writing a traditional story. But I think this author takes it a bit too far — that alone will not be the savior of the industry. Nothing can really save the industry as we know it, it's going to be transformed — it can come out stronger, weaker or not all. I think the "more structured data" approach coupled with smart local consulting work, based on that data, would go a long way toward nudging the needle closer to stronger. But there's not one single thing news outlets can do to survive — there are lot of disparate and sometimes conflicting things they can do. It'll take real leadership making real hard choices to get any one company through it…