The internet guru on the death of newspapers, why paywall will fail and how the internet has brought out our creativity – and generosity Decca Aitkenhead The Guardian, Monday 5 July 2010 If you are reading this article on a printed copy of the Guardian, what you have in your hand will, just 15 years [...]

Lots of papers on a platform would mean lots more traffic – and income. But can we break the dish-the-opposition habit? Peter Preston The Observer, Sunday 27 June 2010 Those of us following the yellow brick road through Mr Murdoch’s imminent Times paywall know exactly what’s coming next. First we signed up for a free month’s [...]

By Tim Bradshaw in Cannes Published: June 25 2010 14:53 | Last updated: June 25 2010 14:53 Coca-Cola saw “phenomenal” results from its first experiment with paid advertising on Twitter, the drinks company’s digital marketing chief told the Financial Times. The US soft drinks company is only the second brand to sponsor a “trending topic”, using [...]

Posted by Robert Eisenhart on March 22, 2010 at 6:18 PM A new website discovered by The Guardian‘s Digital Content Blog, BreakthePaywall!, has arisen to counter the paywalls that news organisations are investigating to increase their revenue from online news…more

By Martin Langeveld /  March 9  /  12:37 p.m. Google’s economist-in-chief, Hal Varian, was the keynote speaker this morning at the Federal Trade Commission’s second round of hearings on the future of journalism. (The study is entitled “How will journalism survive the internet age?” Round 1 was held in December; transcripts and other material are linked here — scroll down. Not [...]

Before our digital lives disappear too far into ‘the cloud’, we must wrest it from corporate and governmental control Charles Leadbeater guardian.co.uk, Friday 22 January 2010 09.00 GMT The internet, our relationship with it, and our culture are about to undergo a change as profound and unsettling as the development of web 2.0 in the [...]

Posted 8 Feb 2010 by Tony O’Driscoll So, how does an unknown anthropology professor from Kansas make a home movie on a “cheap computer” in his basement that beats out all the $3.6 million Super Bowl ads and transforms him into a Web 2.0 rock star? This story begins and ends with the free and open [...]

By JAVIER ESPINOZA LONDON—Last month, citizenrobert was enjoying “the pleasures of slow cooking.” The month before, he was battling with “brutal” winds in Suffolk. Citizenrobert, it turns out, is Robert Phillips, the U.K. chief executive of public-relations firm Edelman, and he has been using the microblogging site Twitter to share his views and anecdotes with his [...]

Chris Tryhorn - The Guardian, Monday 25 January 2010 How can you make the internet pay? It’s the number one question being asked by all media groups, with Rupert Murdoch poised to put his papers behind a paywall and the New York Times announcing it will do the same in 2011. Fresh from the sale of his [...]

Many websites already offer charging options – but few, as Rupert Murdoch seems to suggest, simply lock browsers out Charles Arthur, guardian.co.uk - Wednesday 2 December 2009 23.59 GMT From the hands thrown to cheeks at Rupert Murdoch‘s announcement that he’s looking to put paywalls up around his newspaper properties online, you might think that they’re the unicorns [...]

By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA and TIM ARANGO Over more than a decade, consumers became accustomed to the sweet, steady flow of free news, pictures, videos and music on the Internet. Paying was for suckers and old fogeys. Content, like wild horses, wanted to be free. Now, however, there are growing signs that this free ride is drawing to [...]

Michael Arrington TechCrunch.com Wednesday, September 9, 2009; 3:04 AM Twitter has been growing so fast this year, they’re getting more attention than they probably know what to do with. And that presents a problem of sorts. The company has to decide whether or not to turn revenue on. It sounds ridiculous, but it is a [...]

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is expanding its real estate listings on Google Maps in a move that could pit it against existing listing sites and could also create additional tension with listing services. Starting Monday, users in Australia and New Zealand can search for available properties on Google Maps, according to the Google Australia blog. Two listing [...]

The days of the free Internet will draw to a close over the next five years, according to the chairman and chief executive of IAC, the interactive services company which operates a collection of more than 30 Internet sites which produce $1.5 billion a year in revenue. The only missing link, according to Barry Diller, who cut his [...]

By DAVID CARR Published: May 17, 2009 Write about the media long enough and eventually you type your way to your own doorstep. Lately, when I finish an interview, most subjects have a question of their own. “What’s going to happen to The New York Times?” they ask, some plaintively, others pruriently. In the last [...]

Wednesday 15 April 2009 | 10:39 AM CET   UK cable and mobile operator Virgin Media said it will offer enhanced email services to its four million home broadband customers in partnership with Google. The operator’s new email service will offer customers over 7 GB of storage and @virginmedia.com email addresses for the first time. ..read more

Enfatico, Designed to Prevent Marketing Turf Wars, Will Be Folded Into Y&R By SUZANNE VRANICA WPP is folding Enfatico, the agency it built as a one-stop shop for all of Dell’s advertising and marketing business, into its Young & Rubicam Brands ad firm, according to people familiar with the matter. The move is a retreat [...]

By MIGUEL HELFT Published: April 7, 2009 SAN DIEGO — It had the makings of a high-tension face-off: Eric E. Schmidt, Google’s chief executive, spoke Tuesday at a convention of newspaper executives at a time when a growing chorus in the struggling industry is accusing Google of succeeding, in part, at their expense. ..more

At the risk of sounding like a curmudgeon – a diagnosis confirmed by my children and my way cooler friends – I find Twitter and Facebook annoying. Social media is an unavoidable reality for publishers, as we have often reported in these pages. It may even be profitable, and not just to Web 2.0 developers [...]

On TechCrunch by Jason Kincaid on March 17, 2009 Online document sharing site Scribd has announced that it has partnered with a number of major publishers, including Random House, Simon & Schuster, Workman Publishing Co., Berrett-Koehler, Thomas Nelson, and Manning Publications, to legally offer some of their content to Scribd’s community free of charge. Publishers have begun to add [...]

Who owns the content in the social network and who controls it?

(SeyboldOnline) LOS ANGELES, CA (Press Release) Mar 09, 2009 the Rubicon Project, an advertising technology company focused on global ad network optimization, reveals specific insights into the huge revenue opportunity for Premium News publishers online with ad networks. This knowledge comes from optimizing more than 150 billion impressions, 18 billion of which have been for [...]

(FT.com) Whatever colour you paint a donkey, the eeyoring is unmistakable. AOL’s new chief executive, Tim Armstrong should consider that as he saddles up at the internet company. The management he replaces was not the first to be thrown by a business many believe belongs in the knacker’s yard …more

(New York Times) I don’t mean to turn this column into All E-Books, All the Time. But Amazon pulled a nice one-two P.R. punch. Two weeks ago, it released its Kindle 2 electronic book reader, and announced that its catalog of electronic books had hit 240,000 titles. You can download them wirelessly to the Kindle, [...]

(The Buzzmachine) The New York Times is about to announce that it is starting a hyperlocal product called The Local working with our students at CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism. PaidContent has the story early. So I’ll tell you about the school’s and my involvement and plans. Read more…

An iTunes moment? THINGS are suddenly hotting up in the rather obscure field of electronic books and their associated reading devices, the best known of which is Amazon’s Kindle. A new, sleeker version of the Kindle was unveiled on February 9th. Just days earlier, Google said it was making 1.5m free e-books available in a [...]

New York Times considers charging for its website Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) – New York Times Co. may charge for access to its flagship newspaper’s Web site less than two years after terminating an earlier online-subscription service ..more

Newspaper shuns web and thrives With 2008 drawing to a brutal close on the media beat — bankruptcies, daily newspapers that are no longer daily, magazines that are downsizing into brochures — a little ray of light appeared in my e-mail inbox. It was from a newspaper owner, of all people… more

The Future of Newspapers It has been a hellish week for the newspaper industry. Tribune, owner of the LA Times and the Chicago Tribune, filed for bankruptcy, while The New York Times Company hocked its new Renzo Piano-designed skyscraper. Worse still was the… more

Mr Murdochs recent radio presentation on ABC Australia Rupert Murdoch at heart is a traditional newspaperman. But he sees the wood for the trees. Newspapers will thrive in the 21st century if proprietors fully comprehend what it means to be alive in the era of information… more

De Krant: Het wordt nooit meer zoals het was Is lokaal nieuws onmisbaar? Jazeker: veel mensen willen weten waar die rookwolken gister vandaan kwamen, of er een nieuwe weg door hun achtertuin wordt aangelegd, wie er overleden is, wat de aanbiedingen bij de Aldi zijn, welke tandarts weekenddienst heeft en wat voor weer het wordt… [...]

Reluctantly, A Daily Stops It’s Presses, Living Online With print revenue down and online revenue growing, newspaper executives are anticipating the day when big city dailies and national papers will abandon their print versions. That day has arrived in … more

Social Networks advertising dilemma There was something a little dispiriting about Google’sannouncement last week of its plans to bring video advertising to YouTube. This was only partly a result of the deadening sensation instilled by a sense of creeping commercialisation… more

LONDON: Tongue-twister newspaper titles like De Twentsche Courant Tubantia may not have the international name recognition of The Wall Street Journal. But as Rupert Murdoch trains his sights on Dow Jones, owner of the Journal, another veteran of the British newspaper wars is betting on the future of lower-profile publications… more