TITLE: The Internet Era in One Sentence
AUTHOR: Eugene Wallingford
DATE: November 11, 2014  7:53 AM
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I just love this:

<BLOCKQUOTE><EM>
 When a 14-year-old kid can blow up your business in his
 spare time, not because he hates you but because he loves
 you, then you have a problem.
</EM></BLOCKQUOTE>

Clay Shirky
<A HREF="http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking-the-unthinkable/">
   attributes it</A>
to Gordy Thompson, who managed internet services at the New
York Times in the early 1990s.  Back then, it was insightful
prognostication; today, it serves as an epitaph for many an
old business model.

Are 14-year-old kids making YouTube videos to replace me yet?
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