Comments on: The Death of the Middleman http://nadmaharg.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/the-death-of-the-middleman/ Custom printing, entrepreneurship, and industry disruption Mon, 21 May 2012 14:20:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Memoirs Of A Dying Newspaper Industry « Mahargdom http://nadmaharg.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/the-death-of-the-middleman/#comment-105 Thu, 19 Jun 2008 03:42:37 +0000 http://nadmaharg.wordpress.com/?p=20#comment-105 [...] I wrote about the dying newspaper industry a little over a month ago, but it’s always good to hear other people’s views. Here are a few tidbits from the linked article that hammer the point home: [...]

]]> By: Austin Sells Taxpayer’s Junk Online « Mahargdom http://nadmaharg.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/the-death-of-the-middleman/#comment-88 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:41:42 +0000 http://nadmaharg.wordpress.com/?p=20#comment-88 [...] 11, 2008 by Dan Graham The statesman just put out an article announcing the death of another middleman in the northwest Austin area in Williamson County; the county supply auctioneer. The county [...]

]]> By: Why Open MLS Means Big Bucks to E-Tailers « Mahargdom http://nadmaharg.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/the-death-of-the-middleman/#comment-56 Wed, 28 May 2008 03:00:17 +0000 http://nadmaharg.wordpress.com/?p=20#comment-56 [...] been pending for several years and has now concluded, putting another nail in the coffin for the real estate broker middleman. But what does this mean for [...]

]]> By: Filters are the Future « Mahargdom http://nadmaharg.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/the-death-of-the-middleman/#comment-39 Sun, 11 May 2008 19:09:22 +0000 http://nadmaharg.wordpress.com/?p=20#comment-39 [...] my previous article where I used the example of 9/11 and said that “Better and better filters will be producing [...]

]]> By: Dan Graham http://nadmaharg.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/the-death-of-the-middleman/#comment-33 Wed, 07 May 2008 15:53:26 +0000 http://nadmaharg.wordpress.com/?p=20#comment-33 Repositories of complicated information and knowledge will be transfered to the web and accessible through filters and search.

There will of course be legal experts, and financial experts, but I think they will make their money being sources of information on the internet — we will need attorneys to argue cases and write briefs, but that’s not middleman work and so is outside the scope of what I’m talking about.

Check out SueEasy.com and AllRise.com — two sites that are making legal work easier for the masses by combining knowledge bases.

]]> By: pooter http://nadmaharg.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/the-death-of-the-middleman/#comment-32 Wed, 07 May 2008 15:27:01 +0000 http://nadmaharg.wordpress.com/?p=20#comment-32 “real estate agents, financial advisors/planners, medical diagnosticians, tv cable providers, internet providers and anyone else who makes their living off being a conduit for information”

I think that you are largely correct. My only quibble is that some people (I’m thinking of financial advisers and attorneys in particular) are more than just a conduit for information—they are also a repository of complicated knowledge. It’s one thing to have the information available, but another to know what to do with it.

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