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"Media tends to have a much shorter shelf life than informational content. The main defensible asset for last decade’s publishers was the repository of content they accumulated. The defensible asset for media publishers is the machine – the combination of people, technology, practices, financial and other assets – that produces a constant flow content."

If you want to complain about dumb memes or clickbait or other apparent instances of socially sanctioned vapidity, blame America: We started it, not the Internet.

"...as my friend Om has argued, they are competing with anything that captures a reader's attention. And I would argue that they are competing with any service that fills an information need."

A recap of an #ONA14 panel.

I had to skip out of this early to catch Tony Haile's presentation, but here's my limited recap of an #ONA14 session on mobile

A recap of an ONA14 presentation.

Here's a recap of a Chartbeat demo I attended today at #ONA14.

Unfortunately, I missed the panel titled "You'll never believe how this story went viral.' Here's a recap in Tweets.

A recap of a demo from USC Annenberg at ONA14.

A recap of an ONA14 panel on Twitter.