December 2011
17 posts
The device manufacturers, mobile operators, OS providers, and end users operate...
– Windows Phone is Superior; Why Hasn’t it Taken Off? | cek.log
As the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer once observed, drama is as essential to...
– Op-Ed: News you can use - WWW.THEDAILY.COM
Appification opens to newspapers the powerful marketing and pricing strategy...
– A new landscape for online news
For years now, the line between the software business and the media business has...
– A new landscape for online news
He argues that the Guardian cannot hope to secure enough advertising revenue to...
– Andrew Rashbass: ‘The biggest reason we’re successful is that we are lucky’ | Media | The Guardian
The news brand, in the past — for all its exclusivity, for all its anonymity —...
– The personal(ized) brand: Yet another reason The Economist is trouncing competitors
some two-thirds of people reading magazines, newspapers and similar publications...
– Survey suggests iPad users want more magazines on tablet - iPhone app article - Phil Hornshaw | Appolicious ™ iPhone and iPad App Directory
Instead I won’t appeal to publishers at all. I’ll just say again that the future...
– The Readable Future
So, if you do the math, people were actually 6 times more likely to buy a jar of...
– Too Many Choices
$2.75: That’s the average ad CPM, or cost-per-thousand rate gotten, at one top...
– The newsonomics of the magic formula for 2012
5-15 percent: That’s the percentage of many news sites monthly unique visitors...
– The newsonomics of the magic formula for 2012
And that, to me, means that journalists should learn to separate the promotion...
– Is it just 8,000-word epics that make people hit “Read Later”?
The programmers of the commercial web have always seen their goal as the...
– About Facebook
How you go into the process and how you come out of it is destined to shape the...
– Jeff Israely: For a news startup, fundraising isn’t just paying the bills: It’s how strategy gets built » Nieman Journalism Lab
And thus I am keenly aware that implicit in this post is a sort of public...
– Jeff Israely: For a news startup, fundraising isn’t just paying the bills: It’s how strategy gets built » Nieman Journalism Lab
In many cases, content with low appeal to advertisers still adds revenue to the...
– http://on.mash.to/u3XGQB
Papiravisenes annonseinntekter og opplagsinntekter står hver for rundt 50...
– Avisenes nettinntekter over 1 milliard i 2010 - Medietilsynet
November 2011
7 posts
A fundamental tenet of my Neo-Institutional school is that it doesn’t care about...
– Confidence Game : CJR
The irony, though, is that in the second decade of the twenty-first...
– Confidence Game : CJR
While Shirky says “nothing will work,” the fact is that it’s peer production...
– Confidence Game : CJR
While hacks fight geeks over who gets to be called a “journalist,” Rosen has it...
– Confidence Game : CJR
But we can see now that the news-as-cheap-commodity argument was all along an...
– Confidence Game : CJR
FON thinkers put forward the idea of news as a commodity, describing it...
– Confidence Game : CJR
This is an interconnected world in which boundaries between storyteller and...
– Confidence Game : CJR
March 2011
2 posts
The common adversary is the telecom industry. It’s an industry being undermined...
– Google and Apple as mobile co-belligerents
As West put it, news organizations typically create a disconnect between the...
– A 5-minute framework for fostering better conversations in comments sections | Poynter.
February 2011
6 posts
According to the BBC, or an editor I talked to there, for people who go to the...
– Eight trends for journalism in 2011: A Nieman Lab talk in Toronto
Whereas I think a lot of news organizations this year are going to start seeing...
– Eight trends for journalism in 2011: A Nieman Lab talk in Toronto
That’s right. You’re no longer a “user”, a hateful term if ever one were...
– The Newsonomics of Overnight Digital Customers
And that’s logical, of course; the most common complaint against digital news...
– Following up on the need for follow-up
And yet we want perspective; we want to give the public a sense of the relative...
– Following up on the need for follow-up
A magazine app must swim to the top of several hundred thousand other...
– Apple, Google and the Publishers: Here’s How to Make Subscriptions Work | John Squires | Voices | AllThingsD
August 2010
16 posts
On top of that, you could create a system whereby the more you share, the less...
– - This is going to be BIG! - Product Friday: Monetizing Content is a Product Problem
According to Webster’s, serendipity is “the faculty or phenomenon of finding...
– Googling serendipity: How does journalism fare in a world where algorithms trump messy chance? » Nieman Journalism Lab
Journalism must be fed — but inky hands will be doing less and less of the...
– The Newsonomics of News in a Diversified World
The Times’ planned paid-content metering system, for instance, is a...
– The Newsonomics of News in a Diversified World
The non-news revenues may be a surprise, but here’s one further fact to ponder:...
– The Newsonomics of News in a Diversified World
Apps will be a good vector for complex writings (quantum mechanic vs. celebrity...
– A Toolkit for the Cognitive Container
Caution with Anderson’s theory aside, there is no doubt the app phenomenon will...
– A Toolkit for the Cognitive Container
The upshot of all of this is that the era of one-size-fits-all media is coming...
– Media Companies Must Divide To Conquer
People don’t just connect to each other, they connect through a shared object...
– The Reality » Blog Archive » facebook: disorienting
Finally, and not least of all, we have mobile. According to Morgan Stanley, in...
– Media Companies Must Divide To Conquer
More generally, WSJ users are OK with the idea of charging three-digit sums to...
– The huge obstacles facing Murdoch’s new tablet newspaper | Analysis & Opinion |
The results are really quite extraordinary, when you consider that this sample...
– iPad swiftly becomes the dominant medium for reading and entertainment - Trends in the Living Networks
If you decide not to bother, if you opt out of using Facebook, LinkedIn,...
– The price of privacy
“Privacy was once free. Publicity was once ridiculously expensive.
“Now the...
– The price of privacy
The reputation-based approach is of a piece with Slate’s broader strategy of...
– “Smart editorial, smart readers, and smart ad solutions”: Slate makes a case for long-form on the web
The Fresca pieces are community and commodity ratifiers — subtle indications, to...
– “Smart editorial, smart readers, and smart ad solutions”: Slate makes a case for long-form on the web
July 2010
20 posts
Secondly, anything that smacks of implying that you know better than the...
– Flipboard: The product is great, the hyperbole is grating
never, never confuse people who sign up after a Scobelizer post or TechCrunch...
– Flipboard: The product is great, the hyperbole is grating