Journalism
Sometimes, a good graphic says all that needs to be said: [https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2009/09/pcuk-harris-poll-paid-content-reader-intentions-o.png] Loads more data on PaidContent UK [http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-pcukharris-poll-only-five-percent-of-readers-would-pay-for-online-news/] , plenty of good analysis on PDA [http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2009/
events
The Guardianās published a superbly-written piece by Simon Jenkins [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/aug/10/newpaper-internet-paywall-murdoch-live] today, that catches exactly what I think about paywalls, the state of the publishing business and our route out of this quagmire: > At present the newspaper industry is like
Journalism
A few reactions to the News International news [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2009/08/the_second_paid_content_experiment_begin.html] from earlier: * Shane Richmond of The Telegraph thinks that it will be a gift to the competition [http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/shanerichmond/100002791/murdochs-paywall-is-a-gift-to-the-competition/] * Jeff Jarvis
monetisation
So, itās happened, as we all knew it would. Rupert Murdoch is taking his online sites paid-for. From the BBC story on the announcement [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8186701.stm]: > In order to stop readers from moving to the huge number of free news
comments
Good stuff Iāve read recently, havenāt linked to yet, but donāt have much to add to right now: * The Nichepaper Manifesto [http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/haque/2009/07/the_nichepaper_manifesto.html] ā an articulate and well argued guide to how niche publishing might looks going forwards. * Media
I have a confession: the news paywall debate irritates me. It irritates me, because this discussion was had years ago, and discussed with a great deal of depth and intelligence across the emergent publishing and journalism blogosphere. And then it was promptly ignored by the majority of the publishing industry
monetisation
Thereās an interesting paragraph in Cory Doctorowās review [http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/jul/28/cory-doctorow-free-chris-anderson] of Chris Andersonās new book Free [http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1905211473?ie=UTF8&tag=fishnefedora-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=19450&
business models
Oh, dearie me. I have a feeling that the issue of paywalls and charging for content is going to dominate the online journalism discussion for the rest of the summer, isnāt it? The Guardian has run a piece onFinancial Times editor Lionel Barber [http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/
Kindle: the problem is not technological but business. 70:30 split between Amazon and publishers. Nobody can afford to do that right now. Ā Kevin sees the iPhone, with its new ability for in-app charging more interesting. The Kindle isnāt social, as someone in the crowd pointed out.Some discussion
business models
Today, in Birmingham, a whole group of journalists is meeting, discussing new journalism models. You can follow proceedings [live on the Online Journalism Blog](http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2009/05/08/jeecamp09-live-coverage/). Other coverage is being aggregated on [the JeeCamp site](http://journalismenterprise.com/jeecamp/).
Blogging
To add to the gathering clouds, Brian [http://www.brianmicklethwait.com/index.php/weblog/comments/clay_shirky_on_newspaper_doom/] linked to this neatly-argued augury of DOOM [http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking-the-unthinkable/] (as did everybody else, as half an hour in my feed reader proved): > The
content
I just stumbled across this, and have planted it firmly in my āthings I didnāt know, but find really interestingā pile ā the WSJās old free content model [http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2009/03/my-two-cents-on-charging-for-content.html] : > But what WSJ.com used to do was to
