The New Sleekness

Dave Winer is, well, Dave Winer. And he gets it:

There are a bunch of smart, mostly young, people who work either in tech startups or inside big publishing companies who will, in a few years, form the companies that are hybrids of technology and publishing that will lead us into the future. They won’t be like Google, Facebook, Twitter or Apple. And they won’t be the NY Times, Time-Warner or even the Huffington Post or Gawker. But they will learn from all of them.

This is exactly why Ami and I started this blog. For all my railing and kettledrum-beating for legacy publishers to move, move, move and get with it, changing things from inside the big companies will only get us so far. And the fact that someone with Winer’s insight gets that feels very gratifying. There’s hope yet—we’re only getting started here.

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