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Buzzfeed and Vox Media: $1 billion businesses Paid Members Public
Old media is buying its way into new media, again, with NBCUniversal throwing cash at Buzzfeed and Vox Media [http://recode.net/2015/08/12/nbcuniversal-buys-big-chunks-of-vox-media-and-buzzfeed/] : > BuzzFeed, meanwhile, is expected to be worth $1.5 billion after its NBCU investment, which multiple sources say is also $200 million — not
Was Gigaom's revenue model really broken? Paid Members Public
Should we be taking a harder look at the potential ad revenue of the (defunct) Gigaom [http://rickwaghorn.co.uk/2015/03/15/what-are-the-lessons-to-be-learned-from-the-fall-of-gigaom-what-does-it-tell-us-if-a-passionate-niche-audience-of-6-5m-cant-earn-people-a-web-living/] ? Rick Waghorn thinks so: > Maybe, just maybe, the fall of the Gigaom empire is the first tremor of a bigger earthquake; evidence that something is
Asking the right iPad questions Paid Members Public
George Brock: > Given the eye-popping sales of the iPad, people are inclined to wonder out loud if tablets will “save” journalism. Wrong question. No platform or technology will “save” anything which depends so completely on the content and how good or bad it is.Absolutely right. The questions people
Readability & Instapaper & ??? = Profit Paid Members Public
I may be guilty of burying the lead in my post this afternoon about Readability [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2011/02/decluttering_the_web_readability_and_new.html] . To be honest, I though the business model was interesting, but wouldn’t go very far. But Matthew Ingram has been
Decluttering the web, Readability and new revenues Paid Members Public
Page loading speed, readability and efficiency have all been topics of debate here in the last six months, driven by great work by some of our architects. This is, I think, A Good Thing. It’s both good site hygiene. Increasing broadband speeds have made many people complacent about how
We Never Sold Journalism Paid Members Public
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
Predicting the Hackopalypse Paid Members Public
[](https://i0.wp.com/commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Clay_Shirky.jpg)Image via [Wikipedia](http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Clay_Shirky.jpg)Boing Boing ran an excellent post by
Why FreeConomics Doesn't Work* Paid Members Public
One presentation I was genuinely sorry to miss today (along with Lee Bryant [http://www.headshift.com/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=1&id=20]‘s Niche Social Networks FTW [http://webexberlin2008.crowdvine.com/talks/show/2109]) was Alan Patrick’s presentation on the Limits of
