Peter Kafka

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David Karp Does Not Want to Compete With You

The last thing we want to do is compete with someone. That’s for bankers.

— Tumblr founder David Karp, profiled in the New York Times magazine this week. Topic: Tumblr’s semi-reluctant embrace of banker-friendly ideas like ads.

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The problem with the Billionaire Savior phase of the newspaper collapse has always been that billionaires don’t tend to like the kind of authority-questioning journalism that upsets the status quo.

— Ryan Chittum, writing in the Columbia Journalism Review about the promise of Pierre Omidyar’s new media venture with Glenn Greenwald