In my ClickZ.com column 11 months ago, I wrote: At the center of any market is the price mechanism competition creates. There’s always some difference between buyers’ and sellers’ desired prices. In a functioning market that difference is minimal, or at least…
“It is the thesis of this book that society can only be understood through a study of the messages and communications facilities which belong to it; and that in the future development of these messages and communication facilities, messages between man and…
EditorandPublisher.com features an article headlined Tony Ridder Still Having Fun. We’ll presume that Rupert Murdoch, the Cox family, and the Newhouse brothers are also having fun.* The real question is whether their employees are enjoying themselves, too. * We should note that…
If you are an American who has submitted your e-mail address to a ‘National Do Not E-mail Registry’ that promises to reduce the amount of spam (unsolicited commercial e-mail) you receive, then you may be the victim of a scam, said the…
Speaking of advertising (see below), the marketing chief of one of the largest consumer products companies in the world today told the Advertising Agency Association of America’s annual conference that: “All marketing should be permission marketing,” he said. “When we think of…
Less isn’t more. Forcing people to register to read newspaper Web sites that simply shovel online generic content from printed editions will only diminish the number of people who will use those sites in an era when diminishing readership should be the…
Yes, the Newspaper Association of America setup a group weblog for attendees of its Connections online publishing conference and none of them used it. So what? Did anyone really expect it to be used? Last November, a group weblog that the Online…
When publishers wants more data about online consumers but many consumers don’t want to disclose data, a technological arms race results. Now that many online publications are requiring that consumers register before reading, it shouldn’t be surprising that some online consumers are…
We’re receiving a relatively large amount of Web traffic from the University of Missouri this month, most of it visiting an article we wrote for the November 2001 edition of IDEAS magazine (the journal of the International Newspaper Marketing Association).The subject of…
News Site(source: Nielsen//Netratings) Unique Audience (000) Time Per Person (hh:mm:ss) CNN 19,970 0:32:17 MSNBC 19,629 0:18:10 Yahoo! News 18,134 0:27:30 AOL News 15,027 0:40:09 Gannett 9,685 0:13:24 NYTimes.com 9,549 0:37:21 Knight Ridder Digital 8,171 0:13:29 IBS 8,124 0:13:34 Tribune Newspapers 7,755 0:14:54…
Next week in London, Anne Ridyard (top left), the associate publisher at IDG magazines in the UK, and Richard Withey (right), global director of interactive media for Independent News & Media Plc, and managing director of Independent Digital (UK) Limited, will give…
eMarketer today has a good, short article about which countries have the highest percentages of their adult populations online.
We’re big fans of Jim Chisholm who is the strategy advisor to the World Association of Newspapers and the director of its Shaping the Future of the Newspaper project. But only today did we discover online his presentation (1.5-megabyte PowerPoint download) to…
In today’s Internet Advertising Report, Rebecca Lieb tells of how AOL’s sales staff tape recorded the amazing tirades of their now departed boss Lisa Brown because Brown would later deny making such tirades. Lieb reports: In them, she repeatedly launches into obscenity-laced…
Are keywords trademarkable? Add another case to that fray. The 9th Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals has reinstated Playboy Enterprise‘s lawsuit against America Online’s Netscape subsidiary. The lawsuit, first brought in 1999, claims that Netscape infringed and diluted Playboy’s trademark…
On the front page of The New York Times (registration site) today, there is an excellent report about how average people in China are beginning to use the Internet as a means to demand — and sometimes get — justice from their…
London-based Rafat Ali, who is the founder, editor, and publisher of PaidContent.org has a unique perspective about charging for online content, and is the subject of my January Publishing: Free to Fee column, published today at Internet.com’s ClickZ. – Vin Crosbie
We agree with the favorable review by Kieren McCathy in The Register of the beta versions from The Guardian and The Observer of London. A consumer doesn’t first need to download any software. Each page of the newspaper appears on the screen…
USA TODAY joins The New York Times as the two newspapers whose digital editions are being offered free to travelers in more than 700 American hotels, airports, and restaurants.
I’ve recently been testing a Sony Ericsson P900, the state-of-the-art in mobile devices: It’s a tri-band mobile phone, PDA, MP3 audio and MPEG4 video player, and digital still & video camera, with 65,536 color VGA screen, a Web browser, e-mail access, SMS,…
Los Angeles Times media critic David Shaw reviews digital editions and likes what he sees. He prefers them over reading newspapers’ Web sites. I miss the serendipity of coming unexpectedly upon an interesting story I would never have thought to look for.…
During the past 10 days, we’ve been taking time away from consulting and also from posting here. Instead, we’ve been working on two new projects: A report about paid online content (which we plan to publish next month); And a report about…
Hong Kong already is the world’s most telecommunicative major city, having more wired and more wireless access than any other. San Jose Mercury News Columnists Dan Gillmor (who’s doing his annual sabbatical teaching gig in Hong Kong) says that the future of…
Online Journalism Review includes my perspectives in its Look Back at 2003, and What’s on the Horizon for the Online News Universe. It’s an excellent article by Mark Glaser and requires no corrections. Glaser wisely omitted a sentence (in italics below) in…
We like to closely examine the financial results of New York Times Digital as a bellwether of American online publishing. Most American newspapers’ Web sites should now be earning a profit, seven to ten years after they began publishing online; however, very…
Although last month I harshly questioned the Albuquerque Journal‘s, decision to charge for access to its Web site, I think that the individual steps that Donn Friedman, the newspaper’s Assistant Managing Editor for Production Technology and New Media Innovations, had formulated deserve…
Tech for tech’s sake does not a market make. The world can have as many waves of new technologies as serendipty, venture capital, or the right combination of both can muster. But the technologies that are accepted by, and make a difference…
Today is my tenth anniversary (3,650 days) of working full-time in online publishing. “
On the Newspaper Association of America’s Digital Edge Web site, Attorney William Baker offers some basic advice to e-mail publishers about U.S. anti-spam laws. In our experience, the Editorial departments at newspaper, magazines, and broadcasters generally obey anti-spam laws.However, we’ve seen (and…
Yesterday, we wrote about the Daily Mail of London commencing online publishing a decade after the opening of the Internet to the public. Netimperative today has an thoughtful analysis of the Daily Mail’s wait. Netimperative thinks the Daily Mail’s long wait was…
The Mobile Marketing Association has released its ‘Code of Conduct for Wireless Campaigns‘. We think that online publishers should fit within this code, if not do even better. The MMA Code’s pertinent points: Choice Consumers must “opt-in” to all mobile messaging programs.…
Japan Media Review interviews Hirotsugo Koike, the editor-in-chief of Nikkei Net Interactive, the electronic publishing division of Nihon Keizai Shimbun, the world’s largest (3 million print circulation) daily financial newspaper. “I personally am very concerned about the tendency among young people in…
A decade after the Internet was opened to the public, the Daily Mail of London will begin publishing online. The Media Guardian quotes Murdoch MacLennan, Group Managing Director of Associated Newspapers Ltd, which owns the 2.4 million daily print circulation newspaper, as…
Not on an anti-telemarketing ‘Do Not Call’ list and still bothered by carefully scripted telemarketers? Martijn Engelbregt offers an equivalently careful anti-telemarketer counterscript (PDF format).
We notice that Ireland.com, the Web site of The Irish Times of Dublin, has begun putting more stories in front of its paid content gate. Is this a bit more of a retreat from its paid access content model? A way to…
The Financial Times will offer free and paid content to Vodaphone network mobile phone users in the UK. The format will be WAP. However, users will have free access to FT.com
Wayport, a company that provides Wi-Fi wireless and wired Internet access in hotels, airports and McDonald’s restaurants, will offer free downloads of The New York Times‘ digital editions. Wayport provides Wi-Fi (802.11b) wireless and broadband wired Internet access in 680 U.S. hotels…
After gorging on turkey during the long Thanksgiving Holiday in America, we’re now in the mood to eat anything but foul. However, what we found at the American Hotel off Amsterdam’s Leidseplein was an entirely new culinary treat. Yes, live pasta! Although…
The unsigned editorial, Ending the Pollyana Party Line on Circulation: Time to Drop the Excuses, in the November 10th edition of Editor & Publisher magazine bears much more attention and discussion than it received in the newspaper industry — even among people…
Our thanks to Ola Ahlvarsson, Rosenthal Alves, Bruce Annan, Colby Atwood, Azeem Azhar, Clyde Bentley, Matt Benner, Gordon Borrell, John Breen, Peter Brennan, Dan Bruns, Neil Budde, Mike Cassidy, David Card, Bob Cauthorn, Todd Chronis, Craig Cline, Séamus Conaty, Peter Conti, Ron…
For several years, we’ve been advocating that ‘convergence’ isn’t media companies combining their print and broadcast newsrooms — that’s multimedia, not convergence. True convergence is the convergence of print and of online into a single product. Not multiple products (newsprint, Web, broadcast,…
Ben Hammersley points us to the UK’s Wildfowl & Wetland Trust‘s site tracking the migration of individual Beswick and Whooper Swans and East African Flamingos. The birds have been tagged with lightweight (35 to 45 gram) transmitters whose signals are tracked by…
EditorAndPublisher.com today has a nice feature interview with George Dratelis, the Ottaway Newspapers (a Dow Jones & Co. subsidiary) corporate Internet marketing director. Two highlights: “I find it amazing that some newspapers are foregoing the growth opportunities all together and moving into…
If you’re a business or a person planning to launch a Web log for a product, service, public relations, lead generation, advocacy, product, service, public relations, or any other business purpose, MarketingWonk has published a solid, practical guide for you. Business Blogs:…
Dave Morgan, founder of more than one major online advertising technology company, offers online publishers some sage advice today in the first of a two-part column at ClickZ.com. I’ll give away only four of the nine cogent points that his first part…
Confounding the predictions of Internet analysts and stock analysts, Salon.com continues to survive and has just celebrated its eighth birthday.
Slate.com has hired former stock analyst Henry Blodget to cover the securities fraud trial of household lifestyle doyen Martha Stewart. That’s like Fox News hiring former national security adviser Col. Oliver North to cover the the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Slate.com Editor…
We’ve been dwelling on Jeff Jarvis‘ remarks about how there was the no interactivity demonstrated in the presentations during the Online News Association‘s panel entitled Engaging Readers with Interactivity. During our trip this week between Chicago and Detroit, we were discussing how…
Our thanks to the New Media Program at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University for allowing our managing partner to speak on the Digital Images: The Next Frontier panel during its Storytelling and New Technologies: A Conversation About the Future…
Our thanks to the Online News Association for letting our managing partner moderate the How Technology Will Change News panel at its annual conference in Chicago this weekend. And our particular thanks to the panelist: Martha L. Stone, training director at the…