content strategy
Interesting look at paywalls this morning [http://www.mondaynote.com/2012/01/08/cracking-the-paywall/] from FrĆ©dĆ©ric Filloux on Monday Note. He analyses the reasons for the successes of the Financial Times and New York Times āprogressive paywallsā, and makes some good observations about what it takes to make these sorts
icis
[http://t.co/sgyYTFF](http://t.co/sgyYTFF) latest coal analysis from our new coal editor Manca Vitorino[less than a minute ago](https://twitter.com/#!/KatieICISHeren/status/106027833050140674 "Tue Aug 23 15:39:39 +0000 2011") via web [, because, well, it looks OK. Not a bad way to address the issues of monetising the commodity we call general news. But one thing has been bugging me about it, and it wasneatly
feeds
Talking of RSS [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2011/01/rumours_of_rsss_demise_are_greatly_exagg.html] , I note than some more changes have hit everyoneās favourite paywalled enterprise, The Times online. First up, the blogs now have a free-to-air front page [http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/
iPad
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2010/12/DD8813C0-9AF6-455E-8EE8-EDFFD42557511.jpg] Time for a little Times update, as it were. The last time we spoke about it [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2010/11/on_those_times_paywall_numbers.html] , I was considering dumping either my Times online
I couldnāt help but chuckle, as two stories came to my attention in a very short period of time: - [Telegraph Plans to Charge for Online Content [Ā£]](http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c1b70b9e-fc8b-11df-a9c5-00144feab49a.html) ā The *FT* reports that *The Telegraph* isĀ contemplatingĀ some sort of paywall, next
business models
Clay Shirky has brought forth another long piece on the economics of the paywall business [http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2010/11/the-times-paywall-and-newsletter-economics/] thatās worth a read. Iād just like to highlight a single sentence, though, as I think itās a point thatās missed far too
business models
George Brock [http://georgebrock.net/the-times-paywall-numbers-what-counts-for-what/]: > A prediction: in a year or two, paywall knowledge and software will have advanced so far that we will look back to this point and marvel that anything as crude as a fixed-price, 100% paywall was even thought of.Indeed.
iPad
I am surprised by the amount of positive reaction thatās going around to the news that The Times has around 105,000 paying online customers of various stripes. (Full break-down of the numbers.) Partially Iām surprised, because nobody seems to be comparingĀ acquisition cost to revenue, as well
business models
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