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The message from some of the world's leading news providers at the first Beijing international media summit was clear: It's time to demand payment for online use of content.
Media companies are sharing more than advertising sales as they form networks of like-minded sites to combat the growing ad-selling might of major Internet portals.
When Western Digital Corp., which makes storage devices, released its My DVR Expander last fall, videophiles and video files breathed a sigh of relief.
What Will Google's Newspaper Crusade Mean for Readers?It's nice that CEO Eric Schmidt feels Google has a "moral responsibility" to help reinvent the newspaper industry. But how?
Digg Launches Trends Experiment To Expose Better ContentLast week we posted a hazy screenshot of a new Digg voting feature called Digg Trends. It launches today.
Beer with extra buzz on tap up to 16% A growing number of states are moving to allow higher alcohol content in beer, despite concerns from some substance-abuse experts.
Obama Open To Helping Newspapers, To Avoid Reporting Becoming 'All Blogosphere'from the oh-really? dept. Mathew Ingram points us to the news that President Obama has indicated that he's at least open to hearing bills that would help bailout the newspaper industry because he's afraid of reporting becoming "all blogosphere":
News Content As a Resource, Not a Final ProductPaul Graham has posted an essay questioning whether we ever really paid for "content," as publishers of news and music are saying while they struggle to stay afloat in the digital age.
Newspapers: 180 years of not charging for contentThe common discussion among such people these days goes like this: "We've always charged people to read us in print, and so people ought to pay something for reading us online, too."
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Will most papers soon charge for online content?Tech and media Web sites are buzzing with a prediction last week by Financial Times editor Lionel Barber that "almost all" news organizations (or, as the British put it, organisations) will be charging for online content within the next three months.
Working with news publishersLast week, a group of newspaper and magazine publishers signed a declaration stating that "Universal access to websites does not necessarily mean access at no cost," and that they "no longer wish to be forced to give away property without having granted permission."
Open for Business: A hybrid model of free and paid content for publishersIn the dark winter and spring of 2009, as dispatches from the news business grew ever more grim, as Jim Romenesko's posts took on the feel of casualty reports, newsrooms across the land began to feel like the Emerald City when the Wicked Witch soars overhead, trailing smoke and …
New York Times Asks Subscribers: Is It Wrong to Charge for Online Content?The Times e-mailed a survey to print subscribers Thursday afternoon inviting their reaction to that pricing plan and asking a range of questions about online pricing.
Digg Tries Again To Bury DupesSince its inception, one of the biggest problems with Digg has been that users often submit the same content over and over again. This makes it harder for cool content to become popular because some users digg one submitted story, while some digg another.
Researchers conclude piracy not stifling content creationSome researchers review the literature on the impact of file sharing, and determine that, although it may be harming the music business, it's not putting much of a dent in creative output.
Digital Britain: MobileA quick round up on what the Digital Britain Report did, and didn't, do in the mobile sphere.
Polish kids learn maths by counting smelly Germans and gypsiesPolish education officials are in hot water again - this time for a nursery rhyme book that helps children to count with rhymes that say Germans smell and gypsies sell children.
One Vision For The New AOL: Redefine Online Content As Print Magazines FailThere's lots of speculation on what the soon-to-be independent AOL should do to drive user and revenue growth, and stay relevant in a world dominated by Google, Microsoft and Facebook.
Using User-Generated Content to Generate Profits"So far, Mr. Levinson, a college dropout with dozens of failed jobs on his résumé, has won 11 [content submission] contests — earning more than $200,000 in money and prizes." Can user-generated content, to an extent, do this for any/everybody?
Principles for User-Generated Content ServcicesProtecting the rights of copyright owners...
Newspapers Want Cash for Content. Tough LuckMichael Wolff's point of view regarding who will win the Web monetization game.
Early Beta Data From Microsoft Adsense Competitor EncouragingWe are getting reports that Microsoft's PubCenter, a self serve thirty party ad publishers platform through AdCenter, is doing quite well with beta testers. Microsoft began testing PubCenter last summer.
I joined this forum about two months ago and found it to be a refreshing place to be on the web for news and for feedback from people around the globe.
Basic principles of online journalismBritish online journalist Paul Bradshaw offers some helpful tips on writing and producing content for the web. What with the advent of online news sourcing, and further declines in newspaper revenues, it's a lesson well worth heeding.
Facebook Privacy Change Sparks Federal ComplaintThe wave of reaction, of course, is hardly limited to official organizations. More than 38,000 Facebook users have joined a user group protesting the change, and countless blogs and news sites have written extensively about their concerns.
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