Steve Rubel: As Curators Proliferate, Media Brands Face Loyalty Crisis
Tuesday, 10 May 2011, 12:04
"Suddenly media brands are facing increased competition from an array of upstart curators that are growing in popularity. These services, which include Flipboard, Feedly, Zite, Pulse and News360 – a Russian app that's my personal favorite, pi…
NLA v Meltwater
Friday, 26 November 2010, 12:53
Full text of the judgement in the Newspaper Licensing Agency case against aggregator Meltwater
paidContentUK: Court Says UK Papers Can Command Levies From Pay-For News Monitor Customers
Friday, 26 November 2010, 12:47
"In an important first-instance ruling, the UK High Court has upheld a stipulation that providers and customers of paid digital news aggregators should pay newspapers for crawling their stories."
Salon.com: If the Web doesn’t kill journalism, Michael Wolff will
Wednesday, 7 April 2010, 12:18
Andrew Leonard: "Newser is hardly the first Web site to try to gin up a lot of traffic via sleazy aggregation. But the arrogance with which [Michael] Wolff tries to pretend that what his operation is doing is some kind of evolutionary step forward in the news business — "Read Less. Know More." — deserves a special award for effrontery."
SourceWire: Newsnow to pull links to national newspaper content
Monday, 14 December 2009, 21:47
"NewsNow.co.uk … is to pull all links to many national newspaper websites from its subscription service as a result of a failure to reach agreement with The Newspaper Licensing Agency Limited (the NLA) over the NLA's proposed 'Web Database Licence' scheme."
The Economist: Newspapers online: The promiscuity problem
Monday, 14 December 2009, 00:10
"On December 1st Google offered to let publishers who want to charge for news restrict traffic to five articles per reader, per day. This week’s study [by Oliver & Ohlbaum] suggests that the olive branch may be almost irrelevant. Readers do not need aggregators to point them to news sources, and they graze so widely that few would reach the five-article limit."
Daggle.com: Dear WSJ: To Avoid Google Disease, Please Put A Condom On Your Content
Friday, 23 October 2009, 00:02
Robert Thomson doesn't like promiscuity of readers who get their news online, and blames Google: "the whole Google model is based on digital disloyalty. It’s about disloyalty to creators." Danny Sullivan responds…
MediaFile: Why I believe in the link economy
Thursday, 6 August 2009, 19:51
Chris Ahearn, president, Media, Thomson Reuters: "Blaming the new leaders or aggregators for disrupting the business of the old leaders, or saber-rattling and threatening to sue are not business strategies – they are personal therapy sessions. Go ask a music executive how well it works. … Let’s stop whining and start having real conversations across party lines. Let’s get online publishers, search engines, aggregators, ad networks, and self-publishers (bloggers) in a virtual room and determine how we can all get along. I don’t believe any one of us should be the self-appointed Internet police; agreeing on a code of conduct and ethics is in everyone’s best interests."
Slate: Hey, journalists! Stop getting all huffy about the Huffington Post’s “lifting” of stories
Saturday, 18 April 2009, 17:48
Jack Shafer: "Borrowing, sponging, lifting, scrounging, leaching, pinching, and outright theft of other publications' work is firmly in the American journalistic tradition."
The Big Money: Death a la Carte: It’s not Google that’s killing the media
Saturday, 11 April 2009, 10:14
Content unbundling, not Google or aggregation is the disruptive problem for media companies, argues Mark Gimein: "Memory is short, and people have forgotten what it was that Google saved them from. Before the triumph of search, the standard prediction was that the future of media was going to be dominated by portals like America Online. Folks believed that with these entryways, any media organization that wanted an audience would have to pay for carriage … The total haul from news on the Web is not nearly sufficient to support everything that goes into reporting and presenting it. The reason for this has nothing to do with Google and everything to do with a la carte pricing. … The perceived value of individual pieces of content is much less than the perceived value of an entire HBO subscription, album, or magazine."
ZDNet.com: Between the Lines: AP eyes news aggregators; Risks exposing its lack of value add
Thursday, 9 April 2009, 22:17
Larry Dignan: "I’m not going to sweat AP’s search for rules of engagement for one simple reason: I link to the real source material, which more often than not is a press release. On any given day you can easily bypass AP. And if the AP wants to find a better subscriber business model it needs to adhere to two words: Add value."
ReadWriteWeb: Hitwise: News Sites Need Search Engines and Aggregators
Thursday, 9 April 2009, 07:35
"According to Hitwise, the Drudge Report is the largest single source of visitors to news and media sites. Google News (1.5%), CNN.com (1.4%) and Yahoo! News (0.8%) also drive relatively large amounts of traffic, but it is interesting that no single site really holds anything close to a monopoly here."
AllThingsD: AP Shakes Fist at Google, Tells Internet to Get Off Its Damn Lawn
Tuesday, 7 April 2009, 06:35
Peter Kafka: "The thing is, even if the news guys somehow stopped people from using Google to find information they need, it wouldn’t do anything to solve the essential problems plaguing their business."
PaidContent.org: Interview: Dean Singleton, AP Chairman: Setting ‘The Rules Of Engagement’
Tuesday, 7 April 2009, 06:12
Dean Singleton, tells Staci Kramer: "I think our industry has been very timid about protecting our content, probably because we’ve done so well in the past few years that we didn’t recognize that misappropriation is as serious an issue as it is. As we’re now relooking at business models, it’s become clear that we must protect the rights of our content. … We perhaps have been timid about enforcing [those rights]. No more."
