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Buzzfeed and Vox Media: $1 billion businesses 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

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business models

Was Gigaom's revenue model really broken? 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

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advertising

Asking the right iPad questions 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

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iPad

Readability & Instapaper & ??? = Profit 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

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business models

Decluttering the web, Readability and new revenues 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

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business models

We Never Sold Journalism 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

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Google

Predicting the Hackopalypse Members Public

[![Clay Shirky](https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2008/12/202px-Clay_Shirky.jpg?resize=202%2C135)](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

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Clay Shirky

Why FreeConomics Doesn't Work* 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

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