Comments on: The News at Internet Speed http://www.blogherald.com/2008/06/23/the-news-at-internet-speed/ The leading source of news covering social media and the blogosphere. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:30:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Nancy Nally http://www.blogherald.com/2008/06/23/the-news-at-internet-speed/comment-page-1/#comment-498193 Nancy Nally Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:43:21 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2008/06/23/the-news-at-internet-speed/#comment-498193 This employee should have been terminated. What he or she did was certainly a violation of their terms of employment to maintain confidentiality about their work. NBC wasn't beaten on this story by an independent blogger who somehow found the information on their own. Someone who worked for them as a contractor and was presumably given the information in confidence because of their employment handed the story to the company's competition! That person demonstrated that they could not be trusted with confidential company information and should have lost their job. This employee should have been terminated. What he or she did was certainly a violation of their terms of employment to maintain confidentiality about their work.

NBC wasn’t beaten on this story by an independent blogger who somehow found the information on their own. Someone who worked for them as a contractor and was presumably given the information in confidence because of their employment handed the story to the company’s competition!

That person demonstrated that they could not be trusted with confidential company information and should have lost their job.

]]> By: Slevi http://www.blogherald.com/2008/06/23/the-news-at-internet-speed/comment-page-1/#comment-496935 Slevi Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:22:54 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2008/06/23/the-news-at-internet-speed/#comment-496935 With more and more of the newspapers going digital themselves the need for subscription to their papers drop even further. The only nice thing about the paper is that it's more portable, so I still enjoy my free edition of Metro when I travel. But even that will greatly change as the demand for portable computing with wireless internet increases. Already you can see cell phones and notebooks more and more adapted for this with certain limitations, but especially 5 years from now I won't be surprised to see a foldaway tablet pc which you can simply stuff into your pocked iPod sized and fold out into a 21x9cm display or so coming with all the demanded features for such a device. Both for on the road and at home digital news coverage nullifies the need for printed news completely. With more and more of the newspapers going digital themselves the need for subscription to their papers drop even further. The only nice thing about the paper is that it’s more portable, so I still enjoy my free edition of Metro when I travel.

But even that will greatly change as the demand for portable computing with wireless internet increases. Already you can see cell phones and notebooks more and more adapted for this with certain limitations, but especially 5 years from now I won’t be surprised to see a foldaway tablet pc which you can simply stuff into your pocked iPod sized and fold out into a 21x9cm display or so coming with all the demanded features for such a device.

Both for on the road and at home digital news coverage nullifies the need for printed news completely.

]]>