Last night, at 10:17 PM EDT, the AP made formal its previously stated public announcement: they are going to start monetizing content by into a subscription package. New Venture Aims to Introduce Fees for Online News, AP press release.
This morning, at 12:07 AM, News Corp announced that they are building a global content
Scott Karp, co-founder & CEO of Publish2, Inc, recently published a blog on How Google Stole Control Over Content Distribution By Stealing Links.
In the war between print and online content, he makes a valid point: Google’s role is to not steal content but to promote links.
Taking this point one step further,
I was listening to a podcast by some new Twitter friends’ podcast last night, called the Extraordinary Everyday Lives Show, in which they were discussing online advertising.
EEL, celebrating its third year online this month, is a regular podcast series run by Dave Wallace, Kent Newsome and Mike Seyfang, and covers all
According to a 2009 Use of Analytics in Email Marketing Campaigns Report by the online marketing company eROI, 20% of the 500 e-mail marketers they surveyed do not track the results of their e-mail campaigns.
I was struck by eROI’s analysis of their survey results because they are the only e-mail metrics company that
The AP announced yesterday that it was going to take “all actions necessary” to stop ISPs from pirating news content and streaming it across their sites, raising copyright concerns about the terms of “fair use”.
In an attempt to save their tumbling profits, hold off bankruptcies and defend their current business models, the newspapers are
Professor Benjamin Akande, Webster University Dean of Business and Technology, describes the latest generation as “internet-savvy, phone-addicted, opportunistic and digitally conscious.”
Calling them iPoders, Akande says they number over 115 million and are the first generation to be raised exclusively on computers.
They have never had to manually turn on a t.v. They have never
I spotted a James Carville article in the FT.com op/ed (Daddy, tell me, what exactly is a derivative?) this morning that reminded me of how difficult it is to write for the web.Carville was writing about Obama’s “supposed communication breakdown during the financial crisis.” Carville says the failure is not in Obama’s ability
@AngelaJames and I just had an epiphany.
A little bit of background. @AngelaJames just made friends on Twitter. She’s the executive editor at Samhain Publishing, specializing in digital books.
Anywhoo, she was twittering with some of her peers about a book I didn’t know–Blood and Chocolate–and I know a lot of books! So
Time Inc. has developed a 10-week experiment called Mine that will allow subscribers to pick their content and publish it in the requested format. The magazine is free, but limited to 200,000 online subscribers and 31,000 print subscribers.
Similar to your customized Google page, your pods of information are printed in one publication.
Couldn’t you
The NYTimes reports that Virginia Democrat Representative Rick Boucher, who now chairs the House Subcommittee on telecommunications, technology and the internet, wants to write a law to require web surfers to “opt-in” to share personal information with trafficked web sites.
I’m sorry, but I just don’t think that is necessary.
Think about it: less