henry copeland:
Are today's publishers the larvae of tomorrow's platform parasites, asks @jwherrman pllqt.it/qaMMSr #mustread
The website is dead, long live the platform
If in five years I’m just watching NFL-endorsed ESPN clips through a syndication deal with a messaging app, and Vice is just an age-skewed Viacom with better audience data, and I’m looking up the same trivia on Genius instead of Wikipedia, and “publications” are just content agencies that solve temporary optimization issues for much larger platforms, what will have been point of the last twenty years of creating things for the web?- www.theawl.com