There is a great summary at Business Week of the remarkable rise and pending potential fall of Silicon Valley’s newspaper - the San Jose Mercury News. BW notes that in many ways the Mercury News saw it all coming, but still failed to position itself to profit from the migration of offline info to online info.
Although the article does not make this point, I’d suggest that the failure supports the idea that paradigm shifts do not come from old systems evolving into new ones even when the old systems “get it”, rather More»

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