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, July 21, 2010
In honour of the iPad finally going on sale in New Zealand soon, and in anticipation of the NZ news apps we expect to see soon after, here’s a link to Josh Benton’s review of a few news iPad apps, which is worth a look. Here’s an excerpt: Just about every news website created in [...]
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
This gave me a little kick of happiness. It’s a list of cloud-based services Telegraph Media Group in London is using, and it appears to be a longer list than when I was there (three+ years ago). I remember a time when external hosting was rather out of favour. The following is from the GigaOm [...]
Saturday, May 29, 2010
A conversation this week got my brain fizzing again about news. (Nice to fizz rather than funk). The conversation ranged through what is perceived to be wrong with the news business, what’s right about it, what impact it’s having on society, what journalism graduates need to know, who journalists need to be. The usual stuff. [...]
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Lance Wiggs went to the US, bought an iPad and posted some screen shots of New Zealand news websites as they appear on it. A nice little preview, thanks Lance. Here’s stuff.co.nz, herald.co.nz and nbr.co.nz: Lance looks at a bunch of other sites too and checks out how well ads and various functions work. Worth [...]
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
The Times and Sunday Times announced they will start charging for online content from June at a price of one pound a day or two pounds a week. Good news for those of us sitting comfortably on the sidelines waiting to see how Murdoch’s paywalls are going to work. Great news I imagine for competitors [...]
Sunday, March 28, 2010
This is a bit of a lazyweb post because it’s Sunday and this is in my brain right now and I know I won’t have time to research it. I have a couple of questions about ads at the beginning of video clips on news websites, and price points for DVDs and online TV. It’s [...]
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. [...]
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
I was at the National Digital Forum conference in Wellington earlier this week mingling with people involved in digitising and curating New Zealand’s cultural heritage material – people from museums, galleries, archives, libraries. I was struck by a few commonalities between the cultural heritage sector (known as GLAM – Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) and the [...]
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 [...]
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010
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