Web as disruptor, doing it because you can
An analysis-free post here, with a link to a NYT article I found interesting
There is another breed of rival lurking online for traditional media, and it is perhaps the most vexing yet: call it purpose-driven media…
These are new-media ventures that leave the competition scratching their heads because they don’t really aim to compete in the first place; their creators are merely taking advantage of the economics of the online medium to do something that they feel good about.
There’s nothing earth shattering here for people who follow the things web 2.0, but an interesting read anyway to see how the corporate, bottom line obsessed world sees this stuff. The TorCamp/DemoCamp events tend to showcase up some great examples of these ‘just because I could’ projects Questionville and Favorville for example (what’s with all the *villes I wonder?).