business models
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
advertising
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
iPad
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
business models
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
business models
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
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
Clay Shirky
[](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
alan patrick
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
advertising
Has the journalism industry been the architect of its own problems by persistently concealing the true cost of its products from consumers by deriving most of its revenue from advertising? Discuss…
new york times
The New York Times has seen traffic go up on certain sections of its site since it dropped the paywall [http://www.jackiedanicki.com/index.php/2007/10/16/listen-up-fact-fans/]. Which is good. However, this only matters if those pageviews are translating into revenue somehow…
magazines
New Fast Car website to pay readership for its videos [http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/story1955.shtml]: > Future Publishing [http://www.futurenet.com/futureonline/] is planning to re-launch its Fast Car website [http://www.fastcar.co.uk/] making user-generated content the core element. The new site, which will
