Forbes Gaffe: Prints Private Chat Between AP Reporters. How to Correct Online Publications.
The Forbes Gaffe Ok, now that I got your attention with the title, this is about more than Forbes’ Royal Gaffe. But first things first: Forbes mistakenly printed a “story”, (update: original deleted, see saved copy) which isn’t a story but private chat between two AP reporters, and should not have been published at all [...]
Google Can’t Save Your Local Newspaper – But This Business Model Can
Newspapers are Dead. Ok, not quite dead but on life support. According to Silicon Alley Insider so far this year: 105 newspapers have been shuttered. 10,000 newspaper jobs have been lost. Print ad sales fell 30% in Q1 ’09. 23 of the top 25 newspapers reported circulation declines between 7% and 20% Therefore when [...]
Zuora – Bringing Subscriptions to Media (Huh?)
Zuora, the provider of billing components for SaaS companies (review here), is about to lift the lid on it’s latest offering – providing billing and subscription services to media companies. Yes you heard it right, newspapers, those venerable and (if you believe the hype) mortally wounded organizations that have been selling their wares by subscription [...]
Newspapers Do Not Need a Tax Bailout
Over on “the hill” a blog news site comes news that there is a newspaper tax bailout bill being seriously proposed in Washington. Newspapers do not need a bailout bill; they need to restructure to meet the needs of the new way of doing things. Much like buggy whips, assembly before the assembly line, the [...]
Is Google the Next Media Company?
Think about this for a moment, Google mail, YouTube, Google book search, soon to come Google Wave, and a plethora of other stuff, the only thing that Google is missing is a distribution contract with RIAA and the MPAA. With Google Checkout that might be one way to get the lagging payment system by Google [...]
How to be a Media Darling…
At the recent New Zealand WordCamp, one of the sessions looked at building successful media relationships. In a session titled “How to be a Media Darling”, Doug Casement from Renaissance talked about building relationships and pitching for coverage with mainstream media. I covered the event for Idealog magazine but thought it was worth returning to [...]
News Corp Saber Rattling Threatens to Sue Google and Yahoo and Looks to Reevaluate the Kindle
I do not run News Corp, I do not make any decisions for them, I do not know what their balance sheets look like, but what is important is that according to reports on the Inquistr and on CNN, it looks like Rupert Murdoch is seriously thinking about how to squeeze the last amount of [...]
How to Read Subscriber-Only WSJ Content for Free
While the debate on the Wall Street Journal’s planned micro-payment scheme goes on, I thought I’d drop a reminder on how to read the Journal’s paid content for free. If you are a “traditional” reader, starting from the home page, you’ll see a lot of grey “key” icons, all indicating articles behind a pay-wall. Of [...]
Webstock – Russell Brown – Who’s Doin’ It Right?
Russell Brown is a blogger, a journalist and (according to traditional media) an “internet specialist”. So what are the trend that are at the forefront of publishing at the moment? Despite the title of his presentation, Brown couldn’t help but talk about current issues de jour on the interwebs and he returned to what Ze [...]
A Few More Thoughts on Embargoes
I started this as a comment to Ben’s post, than it grew post-sized. I have somewhat ambivalent feeling about embargoes, so here it goes: We do respect embargoes which we agree to, which is typically how you get pre-release information. I don’t like implied embargoes we never had the chance to agree to. You see, [...]
New York Times Extra: Who Cares About Clutter, It’s All Good
Isn’t it funny how a move by traditional media can divide the blogosphere? Today’s move is by none other than The New York Times: they opened up their front page to third party content. If you enable Times Extra, you get up to eight related stories beneath each NYT main story. These stories are picked [...]
