tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post7068652776282322233..comments2024-02-11T19:28:27.997+11:00Comments on Personal Reflections: Daniel Petre and the homogenisation of FairfaxJim Belshawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10075614280789984767noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-1211809094806802362013-07-25T18:53:57.910+10:002013-07-25T18:53:57.910+10:00Nor 2, Evan. Like most universals, the two rules a...Nor 2, Evan. Like most universals, the two rules are marked as much by exception. I think one thing that Fairfax lost sight of, I have their country newspapers especially in mind, was maximisation of value of content instead of attempted maximisation of revenue from access to content. Jim Belshawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10075614280789984767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-2115139924075936872013-07-25T16:22:45.320+10:002013-07-25T16:22:45.320+10:00The May AFR BOSS mag reprint from Harvard Business...The May AFR BOSS mag reprint from Harvard Business Review has two rules for great companies:<br />1. better before cheaper, and;<br />2. revenue before cost.<br /><br />I'm pretty sure the changes at Fairfax don't abide by rule 1.Evanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13355215688351759230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-36567472675066162282013-07-24T18:09:12.779+10:002013-07-24T18:09:12.779+10:00Thanks for the link, anon. Interesting. Might use ...Thanks for the link, anon. Interesting. Might use it as story lead on the New England blog, Jim Belshawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10075614280789984767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-44772748995525937762013-07-24T11:55:04.609+10:002013-07-24T11:55:04.609+10:00To continue the analogy, what we need is to publis...To continue the analogy, what we need is to publish something of this ilk.<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Complaynt_of_ScotlandAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-72227430324609758252013-07-24T07:11:37.641+10:002013-07-24T07:11:37.641+10:00In a way that's exactly what it is, anon, look...In a way that's exactly what it is, anon, looking at it from a local perspective. The Scottish example is an interesting one, because the resulting culture is now seen as so Scottish.Jim Belshawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10075614280789984767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-69783463280285384702013-07-23T23:29:12.353+10:002013-07-23T23:29:12.353+10:00It's colonization by another guise, this is th...It's colonization by another guise, this is the exact way the English destroyed the two Scottish cultures and replaced it with a trite, shallow caricature of the Highlander culture.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com