The New York Times doesn't know it yet, but an article published in the arts section is a prophesy for where their news business is heading. Ironically it's burried in the arts section.
"News Flows, Consciousness Streams: The Headwaters of a River of Words"
It's a post about the new art installation at the Time's headquarters. From the article:
As stated on this blog many times - the future of information consumption is not stocks, but flows.
As information workers and members of the social web, we need to change our pre-conceptions that information must be collected, sorted and marked as read.
Instead we need to realize that there is so much beauty in the world, we just need to let it flow through us, making us feel warm inside (to paraphrase the movie American Beauty).
"News Flows, Consciousness Streams: The Headwaters of a River of Words"
It's a post about the new art installation at the Time's headquarters. From the article:
Since The Times moved in June from its longtime home on West 43rd Street in Manhattan to its new, almost completed tower designed by Renzo Piano on Eighth Avenue between 40th and 41st Streets, two men - an artist, Ben Rubin, and a statistician, Mark Hansen - have all but taken up residence in the building's cavernous lobby, huddled most days around laptops and coffee cups on a folding table. Flanking them on two high walls are 560 small screens, 280 a wall, suspended in a grid pattern that looks at first glance like some kind of minimalist sculpture.
But then the screens, simple vacuum fluorescent displays of the kind used in alarm clocks and cash registers, come to life, spewing out along the walls streams of orphaned sentences and phrases that have appeared in The Times or, in many cases, that are appearing on the paper's Web site at that instant.
As stated on this blog many times - the future of information consumption is not stocks, but flows.
As information workers and members of the social web, we need to change our pre-conceptions that information must be collected, sorted and marked as read.
Instead we need to realize that there is so much beauty in the world, we just need to let it flow through us, making us feel warm inside (to paraphrase the movie American Beauty).