Nieman Journalism Lab: The Newsonomics of The New York Times’ pay fence
Friday, 18 March 2011, 00:10
Ken Doctor: "Though the FT and the Wall Street Journal have long operated successful pay models, the Times’ leap is a big one: The Times isn’t mainly a business newspaper. If it can succeed charging readers for “general news,” that’s a m…
Nieman Journalism Lab: The Newsonomics of Google Grouponomics
Monday, 6 December 2010, 14:16
Ken Doctor on Groupon: "the remorse being expressed in newspaper buildings across America this week is the same: Why didn’t we come up with that idea? The remorse should go deeper; check out the Groupon Merchant Services page, and try to find a similar one, with similar marketing support, offered by a newspaper company online. In fact, Groupon’s whole pitch to merchants, cheerfully animated in its Grouponomics section, is a textbook lesson in selling local."
David Higgerson: Seven useful search engines for journalists
Thursday, 4 November 2010, 19:02
David Higgerson offers "seven search engines which I think have potential for journalists who are digging for information related to stories and projects. It’s not intended to be definitive, just useful"
New York Times: At Yahoo, Using Queries to Steer News Coverage
Tuesday, 6 July 2010, 10:39
"Yahoo [will] on Tuesday … introduce a news blog that will rely on search queries to help guide its reporting and writing on national affairs, politics and the media."
A VC: I Prefer Safari to Content Apps On The iPad
Tuesday, 1 June 2010, 11:46
Fred Wilson: "I've tried a few content apps on the iPad, including the much discussed Wired app. But I don't like reading content via apps on the iPad and I gravitate to the Safari browser."
idio: The Times disappears…?
Tuesday, 25 May 2010, 13:09
"One element of the paywall debate that is often missed, is the marketing cost that must be accepted when a news site goes behind a wall."
paidContent:UK: UK Times’ Paid Sites Will Turn Search Engines Away From Stories
Tuesday, 25 May 2010, 06:49
"The Times and Sunday Times’ upcoming paid sites will not allow their articles to appear in search engines like Google … the sites will only show their homepages, not articles, to search engines."
Search Engine Land: Stat Rant: Does Facebook Trumps Google For News & Can’t We Measure Twitter Correctly?
Saturday, 20 March 2010, 11:10
Danny Sullivan: "Earlier this week, Hitwise put out stats suggesting that Facebook is beating Google and Twitter when it comes to driving traffic to news sites. I dug a little deeper, and I beg to differ."
paidContent: Video: Murdoch: Newspaper Ad Model Isn’t Dead
Friday, 12 March 2010, 10:36
Rupert Murdoch continues his Project Alesia: “Search on the internet, whether it be Bing or Google, whatever, it’s free and they simply take all our expensive and we think very good content such as Wall Street Journal … They are technologically brilliant, they are a long way ahead but they do not have the right to do it if we want to stop them.”
Google Public Policy Blog: Newspaper economics: online and offline
Wednesday, 10 March 2010, 08:59
Google chief economist Hal Varian: "[The] real money in search engine advertising is in the highly commercial verticals like Shopping, Health, and Travel. Unfortunately, most of the search clicks that go to newspapers are in categories like Sports, News & Current Events, and Local, which don’t attract the biggest spending advertisers. … This isn't so surprising: the fact of the matter is that newspapers have never made much money from news. They’ve made money from the special interest sections on topics such as Automotive, Travel, Home & Garden, Food & Drink, and so on. These sections attract contextually targeted advertising, which is much more effective than non-targeted advertising. … Traditionally, the ad revenue from these special sections has been used to cross-subsidize the core news production."
Press Gazette: Google could be protected from UK copyright liability
Tuesday, 12 January 2010, 18:39
"Search engines, such as Google, could become exempt from possible copyright infringement under amendments tabled to the Digital Economy Bill by Conservative peer Lord Lucas."
BuzzMachine: Content farms v. curating farmers
Tuesday, 15 December 2009, 01:07
Jeff Jarvis: "I think we may see search fall as the sole or even key means of discovery and filtering of quality content. I see three rings of discovery today: search (Google); algorithms (see: Google News, Daylife); and humans (see: Twitter). Note again that Bit.ly alone causes as many clicks a month—one billion—as Google News. Human power rises again. That’s what Fred Wilson says today when he argues that social beats search, because 'it’s a lot harder to spam yourself into a social graph.'"
ReadWriteWeb: Content Farms: Why Media, Blogs & Google Should Be Worried
Sunday, 13 December 2009, 23:02
"The bottom line is that the quality of content produced by these 'content farms' is dubious, which has an impact on both publishers and readers."
Official Google Blog: Personalized Search for everyone
Sunday, 6 December 2009, 12:16
"[We are] extending Personalized Search to signed-out users worldwide … Previously, we only offered Personalized Search for signed-in users, and only when they had Web History enabled on their Google Accounts. What we're doing today is expanding Personalized Search so that we can provide it to signed-out users as well."
