Expertise About Why Individuated Media are already superseding Mass Media
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…
Is interactivity the equivalent of holding a conversation with your readers or is interactivity you letting your readers play multimedia games to learn? We think the answer is what Jeff Jarvis, president & creative director of Advance.net said in reaction yesterday to…
Tribune Company President Jack Fuller‘s keynote yesterday at the Online News Association annual conference contained two remarks of note: First, he remarked that his company has spent US$600 million (net of revenues!) developing online services for Tribune’s newspapers and broadcast stations. Although…
Flights cancelled out of New York City due to near hurricane strength winds, we yesterday took the 13-hour drive to Chicago, where we ‘re now at the Online News Association‘s annual conference. Attendence is around 250, WiFi has been provided, and dozen…
We thank Chris Pirillo of Lockergnome, who today is attempting to clear up Digital Deliverance’s “deep misunderstandings of the RSS feed and its accomplaying blog technology.” He has been leading a charge that publishers should abandon e-mail publishing in exchange for RSS…
Last month, we noted that Penthouse Magazine Publisher Bob Guccione, Sr. had lamented, “The future has definitely migrated to electronic media” and that he admitted that there may no longer be a future for magazines such as Penthouse” and that his bankruptcy…
A fellow member of the Online News Association mentions that the phrases online news and online publishing won’t make much sense in an increasingly wireless world. Speaking of which, Anil de Melo charts how mobile phones are evolving into ‘advanced human communication…
A topic we’ll be exploring later this week at the Online News Association’s annual conference is how to get consumers to read electronic publications more often, more fully, and for more time. We’ve frequently been using the audience overview section of The…
The second part of our article examining the feasibility of paid subscription blogging was published today by JupiterMedia’s ClickZ.com. It also features the opinions of Hylton Jolliffe of Corante, Steve Outing of the Poynter Institute’s E-Media Tidbits, Henry Copeland of Pressflex and…
Later this week, we’ll be attending two online journalism conferences: The Online News Association‘s annual conference and a Storytelling and New Technology conference at the Medill School of Journalism, both events held in the Chicago suburb of Evanston. The ONA is an…
Many print circulation executives still claim that their periodicals shouldn’t be published online for free because that will cannibalize their circulation. However, many years of surveys have showed that didn’t happen. Nevertheless, the fallacy of their claim betrays an even darker truth:…
There are search engines for Web page, search engines for quotes, but no search engines for jokes.
Should a newspaper be allowed to include its Web site’s paying subscribers among its count of print circulation? In a remarkably wimpy decision earlier this week, the U.S. Audit Bureau of Circulation has allowed The Wall Street Journal to do exactly that.…
Barnes & Noble today announced plans to pay US$115 million for the 25 percent of BarnesAndNoble.com that it doesn’t already own and to turn that publicly held online operation into a private subsidiary. That news might be perceived due to failures in…
With but a precious few profitable exceptions, most online periodicals today exists either simply to keep their New Medium directors and Web producers employed or else as loss-leading defenses against further erosion of their printed periodicals’ classified advertising revenues. To that it…
Online Journalism Review‘s lead story today is a first-person account by Albuquerque Journal Assistant Managing Editor (for production technology and new media innovations) Donn Friedman about why his newspaper’s Web site switched from free to paid access. After reading it, we posted…
The Walt Disney Internet Group has contracted with Summus, Inc., a North Carolina developer of wireless multimedia applications, to provide Disney’s ABC News and ESPN subsidiaries’ content to users of some the non-GSM wireless networks in the US. Summus’ press release says…