Quick post on something I only found out about a few weeks ago:
Google has a program to allow publishers with paywalls to include their results in Google’s rankings, whilst allowing searchers to read the article they click off to for free.
I’m sure most publishers considering paid content have seen this, but for those who haven’t…
It’s [...]
A huge amount has been said about Google’s latest move in its love-hate relationship with content publishers. There is no need to repeat that all here, so if you haven’t already, see the following:
Paidcontent with a good overview of the product.
Techspheres with a somewhat overblown reaction about how it will kill the newspaper industry.
Read Write [...]
Its a sad story, but one we must learn from. Businessweek was founded in 1929, and by the 1990’s was seeing a circulation of more than 1 million people. It used to carry more advertising pages than any other US magazine (up to 6000 pages in 2000), and was a profitable, valuable, and well-regarded publishing [...]
After reading this fantastic post on the Future of Journalism blog, I’ve been inspired to collect together the best quotes about this emotive issue. With no further delay, here is The Future of News: In quotes.
The basics:
Clay Shirky explaining the desire of news audiences to share content:
When a 14 year old kid can blow up [...]
Last week I posted an OPML file for those who wanted to follow the discussion around the changing business model of newspapers and magazines as distribution continues moving online. We’ve decided to go one better, and run the feed through a web page for those of you that don’t use a feedreader.
So – just click [...]
