今天继续说“Free: The Future of a Radical Price”这本书相关的事情哈！
互联网时代到来，尤其是近日twitter在伊朗选举、新疆7·5暴力事件中的表现（可参见路透、Beatblogging的分析报道），让很多人重新开始思考未来新闻发展的问题。
今天，克里斯·布朗（Chris Brown）去听了克里斯·安德森（Chris Anderson）在英国Bristol的一场演讲，并写下这一篇Nobody “owns” news – we were never meant to。他写到，
News was never meant to be owned in a democracy. It is about what happens to us and the people around us. And we are free to share it as far and wide as we can.
这位Chris Brown还提到一个让人莞尔的流氓点子，如果媒体不愿意在网上免费公开其内容——
I would in future take their own stories on myself, adding new angles and better balance of the issues, but would have no obligation to credit them as the original source. The fact is though that I will continue to do that anyway, because I feel it is more honest and gives readers the chance to decide for themselves on the validity of what they are being presented.
传播技术成本下降，让更多人能参与到信息传播中来，以往新闻媒体的垄断地位不断遭遇挑战，相应地发行、广告收入也开始缩水，Inland Press最新报告显示，美国报纸的收入近五年来在持续下降。
新闻没可能被垄断，更不能被占有，当然，具体选择从哪里获取新闻，最后的选择权还是在民众——千万不要低估了“免费”的力量！
传统传媒业若没能抓住技术发展带来的转型机会而就此凋敝，也并非不可能的事情，唱片业已经是前车之鉴。
似乎，而今更多的人还在忐忑犹疑和观望之中。
不知安德森啥时候来中国推销他的新书。