The Times paywall has been the subject of plenty of speculation and comment. I won’t weigh in on what, how, why and how well they’re doing but here’s a roundup of some of the commentary I’ve read recently: The Guardian said the Times website had lost almost 90% of its readers since the paywall kicked [...]
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
There are a few interesting numbers in this slide presentation on internet trends made at a marketing conference in New York by Morgan Stanley’s Mary Meeker. (Links to a pdf download.) She points to big growth in mobile and the iPad being one of the fastest growing ‘new consumer computing devices’ ever. This one caught [...]
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Axel Springer in Germany likes Google and wants to build a one-click option for readers to pay for news: Instead of separate pay walls around individual newspaper Web sites, Mr. [Christoph] Keese [Springer’s head of public affairs] wants publishers and Internet companies to work together to create a “one-click marketplace solution” for their online content. [...]
Friday, November 27, 2009
I like this post on Wired Journalists about three journalism graduates in Philadelphia who didn’t find work straightaway so set up a local tech news service called Technically Philly. We spent the next few months building connections, covering events and interviewing community leaders to serve a population that, until now, was lucky to receive a [...]
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Jay Rosen, journalism teacher at NYU and long-time blogger on new media, has collected a list of ways news production can be subsidised. He differentiates between business models and subsidies because he notes that news production has always been subsidised in one way or another, whether by a wealthy owner or advertisers. Here are the [...]
Sunday, November 22, 2009
A melange of links from the past week or so. News Corp says it will block Google Jonathan Miller, chief digital officer of News Corp, said the company was planning to block Google from indexing news stories from its multiple news outlets, the Telegraph reports. When asked how long it would be before Mr Murdoch [...]
Friday, November 20, 2009
I’m launching an online marketplace shortly where you can sell and buy news features, profiles, reviews and other stories. It’s called All About The Story and the idea is to use the web to make it easier for writers to sell their stories, test the market for new kinds of storytelling, and to make it [...]
Monday, November 9, 2009
Got a great idea for an open-source, digital, local news project? Need some money? It’s not too late to apply for this year’s Knight News Challenge in the US. The deadline for entries has been extended until December 15 and Knight does sometimes fund projects outside the US. They are looking for projects that: Use [...]
Sunday, November 8, 2009
John Temple, formerly editor and publisher of the now defunct Rocky Mountain News in Denver, the US, wrote a great post discussing the lessons he learned from the experience of the Rocky. (Thanks to Mirko for pointing me to it.) Temple talks a lot about missed opportunities and not understanding at first that the web [...]
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
More than 2 billion apps have been downloaded from Apple’s app store for iPhones and iTouch devices, Apple announced yesterday. There are now more than 85,000 apps available to the more than 50 million iPhone and iPod touch customers worldwide and over 125,000 developers in Apple’s iPhone Developer Program. Today, iPhone and iPod touch customers [...]
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010
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