The one where Cory and David talk about the state of the news media and what lies ahead. Can the new ‘creator economy’ and Web3 help journalism and the search for a single version of the truth? Plus the pros and cons of life as a digital nomad.
Show Notes & Bookmarks
00:40 – Water being sucked out of the wells is the subject of the movie Chinatown (1974) & and a series of Goliath (2019)
02:36 – The (Bad) State of the News
09:44 – What is the North Star Metric for a Newspaper that doesn’t want to be sensationalist?
11:25 – More than half of Americans get their news from Social Media
14:05 – Yes Minister Newspaper insight
15:46 – Could Web3 style technologies restore trust to the news? We will come back to that.
16:23 – Cruden Farm is the Murdock family estate
16:33 – Paparazzi dates back to the 1950s, but origins are in the Felini film, La Dolce Vita
17:45 – Online subscriptions seem to be working and changing the business model.
20:19 – How could the Blockchain change news?
21:10 – Shared identity and trust mechanisms could be developed…
21:44 – Section 230 of the communications decency act allows social media platforms to be classed as platforms rather then publishers, so they avoid accountability standards that newspapers have.
23:59 – Don’t forget to check out Full Episodes and bonus content on our YouTube Channel
24:10 – How do we add a consensus mechanism to fact-checking the news?
26:18 – There is a precedent for this… Wikipedia
27:08 -News IN the metaverse – MTV Awards: Best metaverse performance by a ‘virtual being‘
29:08 – The biggest problem with news is the lack of local accountability because of ‘News deserts’
32:57 – The Pros and Cons of being a Digital Nomad
39:27 – Nomadlist.com is a great resource for digital nomads. Melbourne is ranked 43. Top city is Warsaw, Poland. Atlanta ranked 40.
