January 31st, 2009
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The pain that never ends.
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Clever. Not sure if it means much, thinking about that.
Archive for January, 2009
January 30th, 2009
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Zephyr argues OFA should fail because it's a propaganda machine, not a movement.
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DATA!
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Smart post by Seward w/ some back of the envelope math.
January 29th, 2009
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I remain convinced Nielsen's numbers are unreliable, but probably when you're talking industry-wide the scale of growth is probably not too badly off. In which case this is impressive.
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Endowing newspapers like colleges.
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A million problems, but kind of brilliant. Make the site like a video game where the more pages a user clicks on the fewer "life" points they have for free content, but they can do advertising based things to get more points or just pay for them.
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Looks like they're finally searching around in the dark for a biz model.
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A bright spot in the dismal news biz.
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Interesting.
January 27th, 2009
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This blurb on twitter is fantastic:
"The first stage for many users is soul searching, or Why Bother?
This sort of existential malaise grips most newcomers to twitter, especially if many of their friends aren’t on it….
Still it’s a good question, why would the world care what you are twittering about? And the truth is, in most cases, the world doesn’t! … But you’re not twittering to the world, you’re twittering to your friends and family. And they do care…
People who attack twitter for being mundane and banal are missing the point. It is mundane, but then again so is most of what I talk about during the day. When I’m talking to my friends we don’t quote epigrams from Voltaire or compete to create choice bon mots. We make dumb jokes, we talk about the weather, what’s on TV, our weird dreams whatever. The stupid and the trivial are the social glue of conversation.
I like to say that Twitter is stupid, but it’s the right kind of stupid…"
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Wow is THAT depressing.
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Continually amazed at just how few uniques the newspapers in the 5th to 10th ranks get.
January 26th, 2009
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There are a lot of people online.
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Conde Nast to take another stab at this whole "internets" thing.
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Interesting. Not a particularly compelling response on the revenue front, but fascinating that they're feeling the need to respond.
January 25th, 2009
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Wow, a bailout for the French press.
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Al explains his latest creation.
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Note to self: more slide shows.
January 23rd, 2009
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Wowza.
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"Ironically, the Vatican has disabled embeds on the service. So much for spreading the word of God."
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Interesting number.
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Jed at DKos betas his new video player.
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Direct ad staff probably fallout from the Federated Media shift.
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Huh.
January 23rd, 2009
Bloggingheads on business models: NYTs, HuffPo and TPM.
This bloggingheads.tv discussion with Robert Wright and Jon Fine is worth spending the entire hour on if you care about business models for news, but I thought I’d flag in particular this 10 minutes in which they discuss the NYTs and HuffPo, although with our little shop here at TPM.
New things I learned: back in 2007 HuffPo predicted it would hit about 4.5 million in revenue for that year, and projected 7.5 for 2008 (my guess would be they beat that considering their huge growth, but hard to know), and the NYTs apparently does about 120 million in digital revenue.
January 22nd, 2009
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SWOON.
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This is pretty impressive if it works.
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Impressive numbers.
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Anyone have any ideas?
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He gets to keep it. Woo!
January 22nd, 2009
NYTs wants to go “multimedia” with more video offerings.
Ann Derry of the NYTs discusses the development of their online video offerings.