studying the media ecosystem
So if I say this post is an exercise in public self-pedagogy (don’t try this in red states) then I needn’t be too embarrassed to riff off Rafat Ali’s recent item about Weblogs, Inc. being featured at Google’s analyst day. “Described as the largest publisher of professional blogs … Weblogs is averaging $600 a day [...]
The New York Times wrote the swan song when Salon co-founder David Talbot stepped down last week as editor-in-chief of the fabled Net mag. “Salon lived up to some of the journalistic hype, but it has had a tortured business history,” according to the article, which I retrieved via CNet. I should reveal my bias. [...]
Community-building rather than content-delivery may be the new killer app. That’s what I extracted from the bit of circumlocution that Ross Mayfield wrote in response to the The Long Tail presentation that Chris Anderson made at a conference last week: “In a world of abundance, you can’t understate new capacities to produce. I think [...]
Wednesday I discussed a report on paid content. Thursday I offered a glimpse of (some of?) the vendors trying to popularize micropayments. Today I will summarize the debate that’s rippled through the blogosphere about whether or not micropayments will catch on this time — my own wishful-thinking take being they must and therefore I hope [...]
In yesterday’s post about paid content I noted that buying monthly rather than annual subscriptions was the frequency preferred by most of the 17 million consumers who purchased info wares during the survey period. Couple that with the runaway success of under-a-buck music downloads, and I wonder whether the time is right for a revival [...]
A search for “paid content” turned up an item in ClickZ News that led to a report by the Online Publishers Association. It suggests paid content growth is slowing and shifting and becoming more solidly based on monthly subscriptions. The report, which covers Q1 and Q2 2004, came out in November. It can be downloaded [...]
As I search for profitable business models for new media, I recognize that most Web content, even for larger sites like the tech-centric Slashdot, is created by volunteers. Today I want to look at the Independent Media Center, or Indymedia, a loosely affiliated network of leftist and anti-global news sites with volunteer offices in more [...]
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