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Journalism Business Models

•  Hulu’s Superbowl Ad and the Boxee Fight – O’Reilly Radar: “I’m sure Hulu is totally pissed. They pretty much said just that in a somewhat more stilted way. The real insult, though, is calling the people who made them cut Boxee off “content providers.” They…

• Why I dislike micropayments, don’t mind charity, but really have a better idea Network(ed)News: What a fantastically simple idea for a journalism business model: charge for interaction with the content creator. Donate some money to the site, and the chances of your comments etc being responded…
• Walter Isaacson: You’ve got it all wrong | Musings of an Anonymous Geek: Theodor Nelson writes the equivalent of a very long blog post as a response to Walter Isaacson’s use of his name in his argument for micropayments for news. Essentially, Nelson wants to use a…

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  Interview: Wired’s Chris Anderson on the ‘free’ business model | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com: Chris Anderson, author of Long Tail, discusses the Freemium business model.     

• Tech Tools Day 1: Tomorrow’s Journalism and Journalists – The Next Newsroom Project: “Readers have never been willing to support this industry economically,” Fine said. “Her advice for anyone in the news biz was direct: ‘I know that not everyone wants to be an entrepreneur,’ Fine…
• DigiDave | Communication is Key: Journalism Beyond Newspapers – Don’t Become Nonprofits – Work for Them: Dave Cohn makes a good point: journalists can market their services toward non-profits who need the press and often can’t get their message out there.
• Forget Micropayments — Here’s a Far Better Idea for Monetizing Content: Steve Outing endorses Kachingle, a micro-payment service for websites with one distinct caveat: paying is still optional. The user decides on how much they want to pay for their news, and all the…
• Will paid content work? Two cautionary tales from 2004 Nieman Journalism Lab Pushing to the Future of Journalism: Good look at the failures of the Paid Content model: LAT, and the Albuquerque Journal. End with a reminder: just because Editors think that they are entitled to make money from content, it doesn’t…
• Op-Ed Contributor – You Can’t Sell News by the Slice – NYTimes.com: A New York Times op-ed on why paid content won’t work. Oh, and that even if it did, the revenue wouldn’t “save newspapers.”

• What does engagement mean for newspapers? – Eat Sleep Publish: A good summary and batch of links on why engagement on sites is important.

• Top 15 of 2008: The leading regional newspaper sites shuffle their ranks Nieman Journalism Lab Pushing to the Future of Journalism: The top regional newspapers have seen a significant increase in pageviews.

• lectroid.net Blog Archive Newspapers could actually try online: Really solid advice on how to evolve your print newsroom into a real, online newsorg. Topics include: Staffing, web design, and workflow.
• Reflections of a Newsosaur: How to charge for content. Theoretically.: Alan Mutter jumps on the micropayment bandwagon as the most “logical way” to make money online. He makes the wrong assumption that “Consumers might not like being micro-nickled and nano-dimed for…

Web Journalism

• The Doc Searls Weblog : Saturday, March 24, 2007: Fantastic list of things that newspapers should do on their websites to make them more relevant to users (read: user friendly)

• How an NYT developer built a new way to read the news online: The ‘new’ interface is a great move for the Times. It does distinctly reminds me of http://newser.com and I think corrects one of the major flaws of current online newspaper design: the lack of…

• NYT Article Skimmer: Recreate the Sunday Morning Paper in Your Browser – ReadWriteWeb

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• The Public Editor – A Balancing Act on the Web – Op-Ed – NYTimes.com: Online publishing correlates to faster, but not necessarily less accurate reporting.

• Nationwide classroom No. 1: Writing for the Web – Innovation in College Media: A walk-through on how to adapt print journalist thinking to writing for the web. Topics covered: • Headline writing • Excerpt writing • Using links • How to change the Print workflow I would just add one thing: Online headlines need to be a mini-lede on their own.

Journalism

•  Bill Keller — Talk to the Newsroom — The New York Times — Reader Questions and Answers: Bill Keller, The Executive Editor at the New York Times gives an insight into many aspects of how he and the company think about the future of news. Highlights: • Keller describing his typical day…

• David Brooks reveals the mentality of the Beltway journalist – Glenn Greenwald – Salon.com: Looking into the activities and attitudes of the DC press does not reveal a fourth estate. More of an institution that has become a part of the political games of the capital.
• A Tale of Two Stimulus Bills – BusinessWeek: A good, brief look at the differences between the House and Senate versions of the latest Stimulus Bill.

•  Obama at Presser Takes Questions from Helen Thomas and Blogger at Huff Post — Says He’s Looking at Media Ban on Showing Coffins: When asked, Obama said that that he would “review” the policy of allowing photos to be taken of the coffins of dead soldiers. IMHO: This policy must be stopped and recognized for it’s…

Tech

• Juan Enriquez shares mindboggling new science | Video on TED.com

• Virtual Collaboration | The Businessweek Video Library: A recorded live webcast on how to effectively communicate using virtual meetings and group work.
•  Consumed – A Successful Failure – Fail Whale – NYTimes.com: The story of the Twitter “fail whale” is a great example of why iStock Photo is not a good idea. The creator received just a few dollars for a very iconic symbol.
• How Google Decides to Pull the Plug – NYTimes.com: A New York Times look at how Google decides which products aren’t working. Conclusion: Google decides very well.
• WSJ Editor Claims Google Devalues Everything | Techdirt: Funny how Old Media folk can be so wrong in their thinking. The publisher of Wall Street Journal claims that Google devalues his content. He’s _very_ wrong because: google adds value by adding…

• David Pogue says “Simplicity sells” | Video on TED.com

• Pew Internet: Twitter and status updating: Claims that twitter-like services are used by 11% of the Internet. However, Pew analyzes the Twitterati, or not | The Social – CNET News: The recent Pew study that claimed that 11% of the Internet uses Twitter is false. That number includes all ‘status-updating’ sites including Facebook and MySpace.

• Jerry Harris Interview: Adobe employees, in an interview, talk about some of the techi details behind Photoshop CS4. Including: how the GPU affects speed, what kind of GPU you need, and how the interface has to do with…

• Maps, spreadsheets, yahoo pipes and post offices by andydickinson.net: How to use a gdoc to create a google map of locations

• What is the biggest problem in your life? | GOP Problem Solver: The web site that will solve all your problems — GOP style :)

J-School

• Message to journalism & broadcast teachers… « VideoJournalism: It’s not just me saying that profs. should be asking their classes for help!

• 10 students that journalists should follow on Twitter: I made the list!

• MediaShift . 5 Challenges for Small College Media and How to Overcome Them | PBS: Byran Murley very nicely sums up the problems of many college media newspapers staffs and even lists a few solutions.

• Responsibility Of Journalism.: Lays out the three main responsibilities of everyone acting as a journo. These are social, legal, and professional.

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