Internet most important invention in 30 years

A panel of eight judges from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania voted that the Internet was the biggest innovation of the last three decades, followed by computers, mobile phones and e-mail.

Source: New York Times

Where newspaper websites went wrong

Another great post from Scott Karp:

Newspapers were once THE most important filters for news. But they gave up this role on the web, because they didn’t see that the web analogue to what they did on the front page in print was NOT taking the same content and putting it on a website front page. In fact, you could argue that this is the single biggest mistake that newspapers have made on the web.

What they failed to see is that the web analogue to the newspaper front page is LINKS to where the news IS. That’s Drudge.

The web is about CONNECTIONS, and newspaper website front pages don’t connect anything to anything. That’s why they have so little influence.

State of the Web 2008

Great illustration by Matthew Inman depicting the state of the Web in Summer 08. Click here for the full thing.