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The New York Times site traffic, World View, June 25, 2009 on...

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:27:01 +0000

The New York Times site traffic, World View, June 25, 2009 on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

More Truth About Twitter | Information Is Beautiful

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:39:37 +0000

More Truth About Twitter | Information Is Beautiful

Everything I needed to know about journalism I learned from...

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:39:32 +0000

Everything I needed to know about journalism I learned from “Ghost Busters.” (via igniteboulder)

marco: What if copyright infringement were made completely impossible? What if we had perfect...

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:19:11 +0000

marco:

What if copyright infringement were made completely impossible? What if we had perfect enforcement at the technical level? (I know this isn’t possible, but bear with me. It’s a “thought experiment”.)

Music and video sites would instantly and perfectly detect any copyright infringement in uploaded files and refuse to host them. People would be forced to create (or find) content that’s licensed permissively enough, such as under the Creative Commons, to allow their usage. We’d give the big music and video publishers exactly what they think they want. But it would actually demolish them.

It would be the best thing that ever happened to those who speak so strongly against “all rights reserved”-style copyright enforcement.

Today’s demand for permissively licensed content is nearly zero because most people can get away with small-scale infringement. If that were no longer possible, all of these infringements would be replaced by much more demand for permissively licensed content. Any publishers unwilling to satisfy the demand would be left in the dust by those who would.

"Successful blog topics follow the classic innovation diffusion model (Rogers, 2003). A creative but..."

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:05:11 +0000

“Successful blog topics follow the classic innovation diffusion model (Rogers, 2003). A creative but perhaps unknown innovator introduces a link, highly connected “A-list” bloggers popularize it, and then it diffuses, over a period of weeks, through the rest of the population (Adar, Zhang, Adamic, & Lukose, 2004). Fashion in SNSs has not yet been formally analyzed, but it is likely to follow a similar pattern.”

- Signals in Social Supernets

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Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:43:33 +0000

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Hungry Beast: Gullible Australia? Gullible Media (via...

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:29:46 +0000

Hungry Beast: Gullible Australia? Gullible Media (via @tom_watson)

Newspapers online: The promiscuity problem | The Economist

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:41:23 +0000

Newspapers online: The promiscuity problem | The Economist

Flowchart Helps You Decide What Cereal to Eat | FlowingData

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:36:31 +0000

Flowchart Helps You Decide What Cereal to Eat | FlowingData

Typcut #0002: Are You Happy? | Blog.H34 : Music, Design,...

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:21:42 +0000

Typcut #0002: Are You Happy? | Blog.H34 : Music, Design, Culture

"Germany’s newspaper publishers are considering launching joint websites in which to sell articles –..."

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:27:21 +0000

“Germany’s newspaper publishers are considering launching joint websites in which to sell articles – a move to defend themselves against search engines such as Google that have put newspaper sales under pressure by offering free news online. Some of the nation’s largest print houses – such as Axel Springer, M. DuMont Schauberg, Verlagsgruppe Georg Von Holtzbrinck and WAZ Mediengruppe – are in initial talks about how to sell content on the web. EDITOR’S CHOICE
Analysis: Brought to book - Oct-15 China spreads the word at Frankfurt fair - Oct-14 The Economist to restrict free online access - Oct-07 Publishers rush into online payments - Oct-01 HMH taps into home schooling - Aug-16 EMPG refinancing will cut $7.6bn debt - Aug-14 “Some are considering joint projects,” said one person familiar with the situation. “Others are looking at creating their own platforms, with a view to maybe letting others join them later. But talks are still very informal.” After watching advertising revenues shrink by 4.3 per cent to €4.4bn ($6.5bn) last year, the publishers of daily newspapers are bracing for some poor year-end results, even after waves of cost-cutting in the country’s newsrooms. According to the BDZV, the German newspaper publishers association, newspaper sales in the second quarter were down 2.5 per cent at 25.3m copies daily – with only Springer’s mass-market Bild selling more than 3m copies. Central to publishers’ plans to turn the web into a source of subscription as well as advertising revenue is the belief that readers will pay for quality journalism – a view championed by Springer boss Mathias Döpfner. Secondly, advances in so-called micro-payment systems on the internet mean that publishers are increasingly confident they will be able to offer a simple one-click payment system for web users lured to a certain article. Konstantin Neven DuMont, board member of DuMont Schauberg, which owns titles in Cologne, Frankfurt and Berlin, recently wrote in the Frankfurter Rundschau that there are “deliberations about founding a distribution platform for paid content from German language publishers and authors” which are meant to stop “high-quality content being given away on the internet”. Springer, contintental Europe’s largest newspaper publisher, is focused on finding its own solutions, with the option of taking partners on later. Mr Döpfner has become an ever-more vocal cheerleader for paid content, famously clashing with Arianna Huffington, founder of the website Huffington Post, at a media event last month. Springer is rolling out an iPhone edition of Bild, which Apple users will be able to buy over their handsets, and plans to launch other fee-based services. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. You may share using our article tools. Please don’t cut articles from FT.com and redistribute by email or post to the web.”

- FT.com / Media - German news groups consider web fightback

The Tetris God - CollegeHumor video

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:58:14 +0000

The Tetris God - CollegeHumor video

From the-50-best-protest-signs-of-2009

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:02:50 +0000

From the-50-best-protest-signs-of-2009

How to start a magazine VOLUME 1: Businessy bits

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:49:34 +0000

myownworstnme:

If you want to start a magazine, you’ve got a lot of work ahead of you. Here’s the first five of my ten step process to getting a magazine started… (NOTE: this list is based upon a music magazine, but many of the points are relevant to all magazines)

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Don’t Underestimate the Power of the iPod Touch in the...

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 06:58:58 +0000

Don’t Underestimate the Power of the iPod Touch in the Smartphone War

Social networks & forums overtake search engines in...

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 06:52:55 +0000

Social networks & forums overtake search engines in NZHitwise Intelligence - Alan Long - Asia Pacific

Thinking about a paywall? Read this first | yelvington.com

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:45:31 +0000

Thinking about a paywall? Read this first | yelvington.com

deplorableword: iPlayer Stats

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:17:26 +0000

deplorableword:

iPlayer Stats

my LinkedIn status according to @justinecaul

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:37:50 +0000

my LinkedIn status according to @justinecaul

Cartoon: That’s What Friends Are For

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:45:34 +0000

Cartoon: That’s What Friends Are For