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, 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 [...]
Thursday, April 23, 2009
For those who haven't caught up yet with Jeff Jarvis's uninvited testimony to Senator John Kerry's hearings on the state of newspapers in the US, here's a taste.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
If you're following the threads about business models for news, this post is too much fun to pass up.
Friday, January 2, 2009
A couple of interesting points in Jeff Jarvis's post about what gives reporters, bloggers etc authority. He was writing in reference to a conversation about how to filter for authoritative voices on Twitter - more specifically, whether number of followers is useful in determining someone's authority, or relevance.
Monday, November 10, 2008
I love websites that point me helpfully in the direction of more information on the topic I'm reading about - maps, documents, related posts, how-tos etc. News sites are often reluctant, however, to point people away from their websites, preferring to link to previous stories on their own site. Scott Karp at Publishing 2.0 has been having a blitz on the value he sees for news organisations in linking out.
Saturday, October 4, 2008
I do sometimes find it tiresome hearing the same old refrains about the internet: 'oh, but it's full of rubbish', 'but there's some terrible misinformation online', 'yes but who has time for all this?' Clearly I'm not alone. Jeff Jarvis does a good job collating some of his standard rebuttals: There’s junk on the internet. True. There’s junk everywhere (even on bookshop shelves). The mistake is to think that the internet should be packaged and perfected, like media. It’s not media. Blogger Doc Searls, co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto, says the web is instead a place where we talk and connect.
Sunday, March 9, 2008
The folks who told us 67% of Americans are unhappy with the quality of journalism these days may not have come up with any concrete suggestions for how to make them happy again, but Jeff Jarvis has one: invite your readers to collaborate with you.
Monday, February 11, 2008
One more from Mr Jarvis. He's set up a small survey asking which sections of a newspaper you would cut if you were the owner.
Monday, February 11, 2008
Jeff Jarvis has some thoughts on how well 'off the record' can work in our increasingly public world: "The argument for making things off-the-record is that participants will feel freer to talk and to be candid. And that seems to make sense. But at a place like Davos [World Economic Forum], you’re still talking among people who can affect policy, business, brand, media, and careers. And they talk. Just because it’s not in the press or on blogs doesn’t mean such a lapse won’t have an impact.
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Tuesday, March 30, 2010
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