While many newspaper New Media operations insist upon formatting their sites for only certain types of browser software and for only certain size monitor screens, some newspaper newsprint production have realized that consumers like a choice of formats. The World Association of…
Alan Abbey, Internet Editor of the Jerusalem Post, wrote us last week to say that his newspaper has backed off requiring that user (and use ‘cookies’) before they can see his site’s Lastest News, Editorials, Op-Ed, and Columnists Web pages. Although Abbey…
Newsstand.com has begun distributing a digital edition of New Scientist magazines. That’s a bit of a coup for two reasons. “This is a great leap forward for New Scientist. It will bring the magazine to a whole new audience, many of whom…
Cyberjournalists.net profiles Gordon Joseloff, a former CBS News and UPI foreign correspondent, who has used blogware to create an online news publication about his hometown of Westport, Connecticut. A very affluent community of 26,000 people, Westport has weekly and semi-weekly printed newspapers,…
Cyberjournalist.net reports on the ten blogs that the Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington, has launched.
In August on the Poynter Institute’s E-Media Tidbits site, we’d reported that Penthouse Magazine Publisher Bob Guccione, Sr. had lamented, “The future has definitely migrated to electronic media” and how he admitted that there may no longer be a future for magazines…
The Public Broadcasting Corporation‘s The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, is preparing a story about newspapers’ digital editions, mainly those retailed through Newsstand.com or Olive Software. This US news program, known for its thoughtful and in-depth reporting, has been working on this story…
An example of moblogging (blogging via mobile phone) is blogging from your local pub while watching a favorite sporting event (in this case the Boston Red Sox versus the New York Yankees in the US baseball championship semifinals) on the pub’s TV.…
PaidContent.org features a transcript of the speech that Ashley Highfield, Director of BBC New Media & Technology, gave on Monday to the Royal Television Society: “What we are witnessing at the moment in the UK is, I believe, a tipping point. As…
Last month, a posting on the Poynter Institute’s E-Media Tidbits site highlighted a marketing newsletter report (which the newsletter has since put behind a paid access archive) that unpublished parts of a Quris study of 1,691 American e-mail users found that 92.3%…
eMarketer today provides its usual good briefing skills to Perseus’s survey of blogs, which estimated that there are 4.12 million blogs worldwide. In that survey, the conclusion that got the most publicy was 66% of the surveyed blogs had not been updated…
Anyone who is following the controversy over whether or not the BBC should be allowed to compete online with commercial UK news organizations should find useful the UK government’s Department of Culture, Media, and Sport web page that offers downloadable (PDF format)…
In which American states will consumers most likely respond to online advertising? The southeastern, according to an analysis by Advertising.com of 6.9 billion banner ad impressions. eMarketer today provides a good briefing and informative tables about this survey. Measured regionally, consumers in…
We look at the prospects for paid subscription blogging, in our monthly Publishing: Free to Fee column published today at ClickZ.com. The second half of the column will appear there next month.
Earlier today, we reported a case of a sports league disintermediating news companies from the process of delivering sports news to online consumers. Here’s another example, this one involving wireless phone users. A year ago, we reported that Nokia had chosen not…
ChannelSeven has an interview with Privacy Consultant Richard M. Smith, who’s now semi-retired. Among other topics, he talks about how much data-mining is actually wasted by marketers: “Web sites and database companies collect an amazing amount of data that isn’t used. One…
eMarketer, in a story about RedSheriff’s report about the top Australian Web sites by traffic, presents this interesting bar chart displaying both the sheer numbers of consumers online in major countries plus the percentage those users represent of their national population. [One…
Who gets the rights to offer downloads of a major American sport? The that sports’ league itself. Major League Baseball is offering downloads of this year’s US baseball quarterfinal and semifinal games, plus video clip of highlights from regular season games. Each…
The satirical weekly, The Onion, reports how “an Internet worm that disabled networks across the U.S. Monday and Tuesday temporarily thrust the nation into its most severe maelstrom of productivity since 1992.” As one corporate IT systems administrator said, “The local-access network…
The majority of print periodical publishers surveyed by GartnerG2 either foresee no change in the relationship between print and online or don’t know what the future holds. They aren’t optimistic about the future of online advertising as a means to increase revenue.…
At theFeature.com last week, Kevin Werbach, the former Internet analyst for the U.S. Federal Communications Commission and former managing editor of Esther Dyson’s Release 1.0 newsletter, argues that both the radio spectrum and governments need to regulate it no longer exists. (Oh,…
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In the current edition of the M.10 report, Ned Desmond, executive editor of Time Inc. Interactive, called offering free online content a “shabby proposition.” M.10 now gives response from CBS MarketWatch Founder and CEO Larry Kramer, Maxim Online General Manager Roger Munford,…
Columbia University Professor of Economics & Finance Eli Noam writes at FT.com: “For electronic media, transmission technology is destiny: it defines cost, content and business models. The costs of TV distribution over the internet are more than 40 times greater than the…
For those who are following the controversy about whether or not webloging is journalism, the Fall 2003 edition of Nieman Reports, the magazine of the Neiman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, includes articles by Christopher Allbritton, Eric Alterman, Paul Andrews, Rebecca…
A Florida company, begins selling software that allows camera-equipped mobile phones to read and recognize European Article Numbering (EAN) and Universal Product Codes (UPC) and International Standard Book Numbers (ISBN) and provide consumers with comparison prices for the same merchandise from other stores.
We’re making available from this site some of the essays about New Media that we’ve written for other sites. Below is a one we wrote for JupiterMedia’s ClickZ.com’s Publishing Free to Fee column. Originally published there on 18 June 2002, it explains the three criteria that sites should use when deciding to charge for content.
The Yankee Groups predicts that US wireless penetration will reach nearly 50 percent by the end of this year. “North Americans now treat wireless like a utility rather than a novelty,” and that “With the current state of wireless competition, it is…
A Yankee Group survey reports that 48 percent of ‘Technologically Advanced Families’ in Canada go online at least thrice daily and that 5 percent are online all day long.
M.10 reports the contrast between UK and US magazine business models. The basic differences are that UK magazines have (1) less staff than US magazines and (2) operate under the control of a general manager who runs the magazine’s advertising, distribution, editorial…
We’ll be moderating the online publishing panel at the Micropayments Conference on Monday, November 3rd, in New York City. Because this conference is being organized by Peppercoin, a micropayments system vendor, we were initially skeptical that this conference would become a sales…
Scott Moore, president of MSNBC.com tells MediaBistro.com why Slate and MSNBC won’t switch to a paid subscription business model and why he dislike the current Web site audience rating systems. Our analysis: He’s a bright guy who’s worked his way up through…
Pam Parker writes in the Internet Advertising Report that American advertisers intend to increase the amount of money their spending on ‘rich media’ (i.e., ads containing audio, video, JavaScript or Flash animations, etc.) online ads, but that they are still concerned about…
Skepticism widens about the Online Publishers Association‘s latest report about the growth of American consumers’ purchases of online content. Clay Shirky, Rafat Ali, Barry Parr, and Rich Gordon echo the criticisms we began making a year ago, and recently reiterated, about the…
E-mail users are always aggravated at having to delete spam, possible viruses, irrelevant forwardings, and friends’ mass mailings of insipid jokes. However, David Pogue, Circuits columnist for The New York Times, points to an overreaction: John Caudwell, chairman of the Phones 4U…
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Here are Nielsen//Netratings figures for US average consumer home usage of the Internet last month: Number of Sessions/Visits per Month: 31 Number of Domains Visited per Month: 53 Time Spent per Month: 26 hrs. 15 mins. 23 sec. Average Time Spent per…
After half a millennium, London’s Fleet Street media history is at and end. Reuters, the only remaining English-language news organization still based in London’s legendary media thoroughfare, is preparing to sell its No. 85 Fleet Street offices and move miles down the…
Our two recent posting about what really may have motived Editor & Publisher magazine to switch from weekly to monthly print publication led the magazine’s Publisher Chaz McKeown to e-mail us information to show that E&P is a very healthy and competitive…
The Online Publishers Association has released its latest hope-filled and hype-filled update of its questionable figures about the growth of paid online content in the US. We write the monthly Publishing: Free to Fee columns for JupiterMedia’s ClickZ.com, so we think we…
Some general comments about whether or not blogs should be edited: The blogging community often mistakes the word editing for the word censoring, and gets all atwitter. There is nothing wrong with editing a blog or any other published writing. Editing involves…
There currently is a controversy in the blogger community about the Sacremento Bee‘s publisher ordering that part of a blog by one of her columnists be deleted and that all the newspaper’s blogs be edited prior to publication. Was the Sacramento Bee’s…
Simba Information, Inc. has been bought by R.R. Bowker from PRIMEDIA, Inc. Well-known to many Internet pioneers, Simba was one of the first companies to provide market intelligence about the Internet to media professionals. Its new owner, Bowker, itself privately owned by…
The International Telecommunications Union announced that the number of people worldwide who have broadband Internet access grew 72% in 2002. The Republic of (South) Korea, Hong Kong (China) and Canada topped the list of countries with broadband penetration. Broadband is used by…
SFGate News Director Vlae Kershner has an interesting quote in an Editor & Publisher‘s online interview. Asked why he opposes charging for access to his content: “Newspapers need to charge because they have high production costs and because if they don’t, advertisers…
The library at Drexel University in Philadelphia used to subscribe to fewer than 100 print journals from the Elsevier science unit of Anglo-Dutch publisher Reed Elsevier. But it now subscribes online to some 1,500 Reed Elsevier tech journals, thanks to that publisher’s…
Jim Bannister, former executive VP of Time Warner’s New Media effort Entertaindom, is writing an excellent book about media and new technologies. We aren’t allowed to say more, but we’ve seen its drafts.
Media critic Tim Porter, who was editor of San Francisco Examiner under Hearst Corporation analyses and agrees with our analysis of why Editor & Publisher magazines is switching from monthly to weekly publication.
MTV has begun to stream music videos and other programming, such as Jackass and Dirty Sanchez, to users of Hutchison’s third-generation mobile phones in the UK, Netimperative reports. Premiership football game clips are already available on those 3G phones. However, Hutchinson has…
Editor & Publishing’s site reports on RSS feeds launched by The New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, and Nashua Telegraph of New Hampshire. Joel Abrams, the Monitor‘s partnership development specialist, says his company is now trying to figure out a business model…