Customers resist being controlled; but appreciate it when businesses lead and serve their needs.

All kidding aside, I am fascinated by the quiet and not-so-quiet tension between “Old” and “New” forms of media.

“Old” media critiques “New’ for not necessarily being professionally educated and credentialed. While “New” critiques “Old” for the post’s observations around control.

Here’s the best news…we have something to talk about.

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This would make a lot of applications really difficult to work with (mashups, video sharing, etc). Everything could be held up on getting consent from one person.

We need a lot of attitude readjustment from across the board. We’ll just have to see what happens.

That’s fine, so are a lot of folks, which is why I teach an entry-level social media workshop, but this is supposedly a bunch of high-level freelance journalists (with some snarky, holier-than-thou comments on the BBS to go with that ‘tude.)

Not a week on the BBS goes by that I don’t think to myself, my Gawd, he/she doesn’t know THAT? Then, I’ll try to politely teach the answer with a BBS reply, because how else are we going to get people up to speed?

Guys like Seamus Condron on the editorial staff are filling the mediabistro Web site with Web 2.0 video tutorials and good industry info (I’m reading your post because it’s on their front page news summary today) but they are way ahead of their audience, from what I can see.

The term is derived from, and inspired by a number of ground breaking research findings most notably from Yochai Benkler (professor of Law at Yale University). Benkler’s definitive paper, Coase’s Penguin, or Linux and the Nature of the Firm, on the implications of the Open Source movement concludes that peer to peer sharing as a means of production is inherently more efficient and resilient than hierarchical, command and control organisational models.

However, we have embraced new media tools and have experienced the howls of our peers. Our site is both a walled garden on our professional journalism side but our commenting and blog areas are totally open.

I don’t believe newspapers will disappear. We are branded sheets of paper with important news, gathered by individuals living and working in the communities they serve. What I predict is that daily newspapers will suffer more than the weekly newspapers for the reason that local content is king. News at the local level is the only news people will open their wallets to read and feel connected to.

There are thousands of digital citizens out there predicting the death of newspapers, but we will not go away, as we make active investments in content creation. This is an essential part of intellectual property law and it will be extended to the internet in time. The tools are being built. I am involved in that pursuit currently and it is an IP technology that will help all publishers of creative content in North America. Stay tuned…

Old media and new media alike have tried to do this. Apple is now having its day in the sun finally controlling our music platform. AOL had its day as a walled garden.

TV and cable had their day fed by government licenses.

New media outlets all struggle for the same but the barriers are too low and all media will now compete. Endlessly eating their young and beginning anew. Every generation throws a hero up the pop charts.