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Those Paywalls That Work...

37signals on the [http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2245-when-opening-the-wallet-becomes-a-no-brainer] Wall Street Journal [http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2245-when-opening-the-wallet-becomes-a-no-brainer] and the [http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2245-when-opening-the-wallet-becomes-a-no-brainer] Financial Times [http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2245-when-opening-the-wallet-becomes-a-no-brainer] : > The easiest way to get people to pay you money is when they think they’

monetisation

Paywalls: The Experiment Begins in June

So, The Times and Sunday Times will be behind a paywall from June [http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-times-new-pay-site-1-a-day-2-a-week-starting-june/] . The theoretical arguments between the “link economy and conversation brings value” and the “content is valuable and must be paid for” camps have been iterated and reiterated to death in recent

Facebook

Weekend Coffee Reading

When it’s too cold and wet to go out for the Sunday paper, just follow the links:- [The truth does not lie midway between right and wrong](http://charman-anderson.com/2010/02/23/the-truth-does-not-lie-midway-between-right-and-wrong/) – Suw deconstructs one of the persistent myths of ‘balanced’ journalism - [Second Life’s

aggregation

Afternoon Tea Reading 12th Jan 2010

The renaming just for Martin (blog [http://www.itsdevelopmental.com/], twitter [http://twitter.com/martincouzins]) who asked if I ever drank tea… - [News International starting to block paid-for aggregators from crawling its sites](http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-news-int.-will-also-block-sun-online-notw.co.uk-from-newsnow/). The paywall cometh… - [Which Flip should

Journalists

Time to Kick the Controversy Habit

At a meeting this morning, I told a prospective newbie blogger that intentional controversy was often a massively over-rated virtue. In the light of this, I couldn’t help but find myself nodding vigorously in agreement with this piece by Umair Haque [http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/haque/2009/12/why_

Google

Le Web: Marissa Mayer of Google

Marissa Mayer’s appearances at LeWeb have never been particularly noteworthy [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2008/12/le_web_08_marissa_mayer.html]. She’s very good at giving the corporate line persuasively, but rarely gives out anything really juicy. It’s good to see Mike Arrington doing the

Journalism

More Paywall Discussion

[http://twitpic.com/rv2gs]A few interesting follow-ups to my posts about the content Paywall debate: - Eric of Websnark explores the idea that [people adapt to what’s convenient for them](http://www.websnark.com/archives/2009/11/one_of_the_most.html) – and if you make visiting news

content

The Murdoch/Google Phony War

In the end, a war on Google is a much more appealing spin on the newspapers’ current position than “we haven’t figured out how to make money online in a decade of trying”. They’ll blame Google, they’ll blame the shadowy cabal of infomation-must-be-free proponents [http://www.buzzmachine.

Journalism

The Content Paywall Ostriches

To dismiss the whole of the free-to-air reporting, analysis and news-gathering being done on blogs and the myriad forms of social media that exist in that one paragraph is to duck the crucial question of “what do you offer that’s so much more compelling than the work done on

aggregation

Correcting the Associated Press via Time Travel

I love the internet. Sometimes when you’re too busy to do things, it just goes ahead and sorts it out for you. For example, some colleagues and I were looking at this story [http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j-QHPkd1wPcAZL8SOqSTACDn33TgD9B7G7TG0] in some disbelief. As one of them remarked,

Journalism

Proportion of Readers That Will Pay For News: 5%

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/

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Those Paywalls That Work...

Paywalls: The Experiment Begins in June

Weekend Coffee Reading

Afternoon Tea Reading 12th Jan 2010

Morning Coffee Reading - 6th Jan 2010

Time to Kick the Controversy Habit

Le Web: Marissa Mayer of Google

More Paywall Discussion

The Murdoch/Google Phony War

The Content Paywall Ostriches

Correcting the Associated Press via Time Travel

Proportion of Readers That Will Pay For News: 5%