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“anyone who has spent time doing business online realizes that less than 10% of anyone’s audience (even if your audience are rich people) will pay for online content.”
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“I’d also argue that WSJ.com should become distributed, putting its news and, more important, its data out there as nuggets, widgets, modules that many other sites — blogs, social services, shows — can distribute for you.”
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“Lehman Brothers analyst Doug Anmuth does a detailed number-crunching and analysis of the scenarios if WSJ.com became open”
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“much of the international audience is transient, coming in for a story and leaving, often sent that way by Drudge.”
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“According to the latest figures from Nielsen//NetRatings, the media researcher, Guardian Unlimited and TimesOnline, the UK’s two largest “quality” newspaper websites in terms of users, have more American than British readers.”
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Vin Crosbie: “The real problem, Mr. Newspaperman, isn’t that your content isn’t online or isn’t online with multimedia. It’s your content. Specifically, it’s what you report, which stories you publish, and how you publish them to people…”
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“I despise the internet. It’s irresponsible and, often, a net of hate. And I don’t have time for Blogopops.”
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On Robert Fisk piece: “Should I ever get around to telling you why I think the National Grid lacks a sense of humour, I would hope that someone, somewhere would point out that I’m talking nonsense. “
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“During the course of Project Red Stripe we have come to realise that assessment, reassessment and change are natural parts of the innovation process. As part of this process – and with some regret – we have decided that we had to move on from Lughenj
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“I would have thrown another requirement on Project Red Stripe or any media company’s innovation incubator: that they start a sustainable — that is, profitable — business… now the business of journalism is every journalist’s business.”
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“The innovation that normally yields results is the kind that arrives in a light drizzle; small, incremental, building on work done by yourself or others, utterly un-noteworthy to all but the geekiest observer.”
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“The Desert Sun site from Palm Springs, California is one of the first sites to get the facelift”
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“First Direct, Vodafone, Virgin Media, the AA, Halifax and the Prudential have all withdrawn ads.”
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“Facebook, and other social networking sites will need to find ways to provide filtered delivery of advertising soon, or face the real possibility that advertisers may take their business elsewhere”
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“a new site that brings you the best news from all over the Web and delivers it in concise, efficient summaries. Newser offers a quick, graphic snapshot of the news and a way to dig deeper for images, audio, video, and links to the best sources. “
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“It certainly looks neat, and helps in efficient news consumption. But tough to make a go as a destination brand, especially as a generalist news site, and then the issues of scale, competition and specialist news sites. “
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“I actually like Newser, but whether I would use it regularly will depend on whether the editors can do a good job of not only keeping on top of breaking and important stories, but also picking stories that interest me.”
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On Newser: “It’s Yahoo! News without the exclamation point. It’s the dullest thing I’ve seen all day, and I’ve been staring into a jar of pennies for the last half hour.”
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On Newser: “Lumping that content together in yet another new way – especially without any apparent attempt at personalisation or smart filtering for individual relevance – probably won’t be the salvation of journalism in the information age.”
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“We like the equality of the site at the moment – everybody’s post gets a chance to gather readers. However, it can be difficult to know what you’ve missed. We wanted to provide more ways into the conversation.”
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“Those in their 40s make up the largest group – almost a quarter of users. Almost a fifth of users are in their 50s and a similar proportion are in their 60s. Those groups account for almost two-thirds of My Telegraph members.”
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“The UK’s top Internet properties and top gaining properties for June, based on data collected through the comScore World Metrix audience measurement service.”
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“At GateHouse Media, I think we’re going to “require” real identities. We’re still building our system to “enforce” this, and are months away yet, so I suppose this policy is subject to change, but I’m pretty set on it.”
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“For many organisations, the best approach is about ‘iterating crapness’ out of the user experience.” (Login required.)
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Research, links and statistics on online video.
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“The CPM rate changes from one based on cost per thousand page views to cost per thousand unique users.”
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“We’ve rounded up more than 80 popular CMSs due to reader requests. For the sake of brevity, we haven’t delved too deeply into CMSs for personal blogging or wikis”
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“I look at the philosophical differences between publishers and advertisers on measurement, consider a new solution by startup Quantcast, and dream the impossible dream of one universal online metric.”
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“Twitter is a publication because it provides me with a flow of information… you can’t appreciate this until you are following the right mix of people whose thoughts, ideas, sentiments, life experiences, and totally random banter are interesting to yo
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“To alter the organisms so dramatically, the scientists from the Hanover University of Veterinary Medicine tweaked the genes that determine body shape.”
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“They are closed lists that aren’t accessible to the public, and each posting includes the person’s name, mailing address and email address to verify who they are”
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“As seen from the graph, Digg.com has lost nearly half of its traffic from its glory-days towards the end of 2006. No doubt, Kevin Rose’s creation is facing stiff competition from other web2.0 startups such as Reddit, Stumbleupon, del.ico.us and others”
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“Slashdo… has fully committed to the shift towards open reader participation in online news gathering with the public launch of the Slashdot Firehose, a social news portal that lets readers publicly submit and vote on the day’s top stories.”
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“So we have “serious, traditional” journalism over HERE, and all this experimenting with “citizens” and “crowds” and whatnot over THERE.”
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“We should let the audience make the content. We should just print it up for them”
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“You don’t need a skunk works to be innovative, you need a culture of innovation. It’s very tempting to create a separate team with their own budget and resources, free of bureaucracy…to whom you can give the task of innovation and then forget about it”
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“MicroMedia: Quick audio or video messages published to a trusted social community. May be created and consumed using mobile technology, and often distributed using other social media tools”
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“Currently, virtual hangouts differentiate themselves by targeting particular audiences and providing certain types of immersive experiences.”
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“Holding on to this disbelief – this myth that users won’t scroll to see anything below the fold – is doing everyone a great disservice, most of all our users.”
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“OJR’s editor answers basic questions about how news organizations can improve investigative reports by using the Internet to gather information from their readers.”
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“when it comes to at-work media use, the study found that the Web clearly dominates (with 54.6% reach, compared to television’s 21.1%), and is the only medium that ranks among the top two at both work and home.”
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“I agree that hyperlocal could bring back fleeing readers and even expand into new territories. But only when done well.”