July 12, 2008 by Joshua Young
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It’s not yet another Digg clone. Rather, it’s a fresh new take on delivering more personalized news inspired by people with similar interests. We’re very focused on building a mainstream mass-market better news-getting experience for anyone/anywhere
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Using new micro data from Washington, DC, I estimate the relationship between the print and online papers in demand, the welfare impact of the online paper’s introduction, and the expected imact of charging positive online prices.
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Before we get into the data, let’s revisit the argument. It’s that free sites get way more traffic than pay sites, and experience shows that making money from advertising on a big user base is easier than making money from subscriptions on a small base.
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It’s an emerging rule of thumb that suggests that if you get a group of 100 people online then one will create content, 10 will “interact” with it (commenting or offering improvements) and the other 89 will just view it.
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Google Trends helps shed some light on the fact that the interest level in Technorati has been slashed in half in just the last 12 months, that MySpace peaked a year ago, as did Digg.
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July 11, 2008 by Joshua Young
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No one with sufficient experience ever thought that TimesSelect made good business sense. It was the last gasp of the circulation mentality, the belief that consumers would pay for content even as the internet revealed the value in media is conversation.
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PressThink has its own version of SEO: Write a post that’s a guide to the discussion online and “the news,” linking out a ton. Give it a title and subtitle that anticipate search terms. It will weave itself into the Web and add up to Web authority.
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Without permanence, you slip off google. Bold ideas like ‘news as conversation’ fall away, because you’re shutting down the conversation before it has barely started. Without permanence, you might be on the web, but you’re certainly not part of it.
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I made one empassioned plea: the open archive. Charging for the archive is wrong for the news industry, wrong for the practice of journalism, and wrong for the public on the Web. Link death and the paywall are killing the news business.
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Fearful of allegations that it is profiting from copyright infringement, Google will only sell ads against YouTube clips that have been posted or approved by media companies and other partners — roughly 4% of the total.
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Newspapers don’t sell news to readers; they sell readers to advertisers. More generally, they monetize their readers (rather than their news), mainly through advertising, but also, sometimes, through subscription sales.
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In the several months after the NYTimes dropped TimesSelect, its traffic went through the roof. According to comScore, it gained 7.5 million readers worldwide from the end of August through the end of October, a 64% jump (to a total of 19.4 million).
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Sree Sreenivasan, who runs the new media program at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism, is even against mandatory site registration, since it’s just one more password to remember. “You have to adapt and learn from watching these nimble guys.”
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July 10, 2008 by Joshua Young
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There are four components of what I’m calling this idea of “ubiquitous social networks”: (1) universal identities, (2) a single social graph, (3) social context for activities, and (4) social influence defining marketing value.
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MetaCarta offers Web Services to power your applications, selling its technology in the form of an appliance and offering a number of web service APIs, like a LocationFinder, a QueryParser, a GeoTagger, and Search.
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The central question is whether there exists a set of payoffs to the participants under which the network can be sustained.
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Remembers liast 15 URLs. Tracks clicks and referrers. Includes on API. Automatically creates thumbnails and mirrors each page. Autotags with Calais. Geolocates with MetaCarta.
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A really super thorough story, including history, on google’s advertising, including youtube, doubelclick, tv and magazine and radio ads, customers, its sales operations. Includes lots of great stats, like YOY sales. Also, search ads didn’t start as CPC!
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PointRoll, a subsidiary of Gannett, offers a solution to the limited performance of standard banner ads by bringing a mini web site to the user without requiring a click–with interactive features such as video, polling, instant email, data collection…
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Sez new WSJ Managing Editior Robert Thomson: “Journalists at The Wall Street Journal have the objective of being objective. At The New York Times, you have news with a skew. Or a skew with news.” OUCH! Bring on “fair and balanced” while you’re at it!
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With last.fm’s Artist Royalty Program, bands accrue money–a percentage of revenue from ads next to their music as it streams or is played on-demand–into last.fm accounts. Last.fm has committed to a transparent payout system.
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The New York Times is predicting a 30% increase in online revenue to around $350m in 2007, according to the newspaper’s chief executive Janet Robinson.
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July 9, 2008 by Joshua Young
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The Personal Democracy Forum presents an anthology of forty-four essays brimming with the hopes of reenergizing, reorganizing, and reorienting our government for the Internet Age. How would completely reorganizing our system of representation work?
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In what we hope becomes an annual tradition, the Post Investigations blog names the top newspaper investigations of 2007. “Sold a Nightmare,” “Hidden Hazards,” “Abuse of county pension funds,” “Investigation fo HUD Secretary,” “A Toxic Pipeline.”
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Why internships are bad for young people and bad for the industry: News is delivered by people who harbor similar ambitions and come from similar well-heeled backgrounds, people who spend summers in the same cities and work at the same organizations.
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The lesson of this paper is that in more or less standard conditions a collectively rational and individually responsive group agent will have to be self-governing (giving some sub-units a special, regulatory role) rather than self-organizing (like ants).
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Response by Yochai Benkler, The Dialectic of Technology, Mediating the Social Contradiction of the Digital Age, Whose networks? Whose wealth?, Why do social networks work?, A General Theory of Information Policy, Norms and Networks, etc.
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A paper which looks at the first decent dataset that allows us to figure out what blog readers look like. First, blog readers seem to exhibit strong homophily. Second, blog readers are much more likely than non blog readers to engage in politics.
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July 8, 2008 by Joshua Young
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ScienceBlogs is the latest venture of Seed Media Group. We partner with forward-thinking brands to communicate their innovations to our fast-growing audience of influencers. Visit seedmediagroup.com/advertise to learn more.
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Aimed at advanced undergraduates, this revised text is a valuable self-instruction source for professionals interested in the relation of neural network ideas to theoretical computer science and articulating disciplines.
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The following links point to a set of tutorials on many aspects of statistical data mining, including the foundations of probability, the foundations of statistical data analysis, and most of the classic machine learning and data mining algorithms.
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July 3, 2008 by Joshua Young
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GNIP sits between social networks and other web services that produce a lot of user content and data (like Digg, Delicious, Flickr, etc.) and data consumers (like Plaxo, SocialThing, MyBlogLog, etc.) to reducing API load and increase efficiency.
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July 1, 2008 by Joshua Young
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What I really want is something that digests all other comments on the web, gives them the FriendFeed treatment, and allows those comments to be displayed in FriendFeed and on the site they come from.
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The decline in newspaper print advertising – now tracking to a 10-year low – is actually far steeper when you factor out the inflation that masks the severity of the deterioration. Minus inflation, sales are about 20% lower than they were in 1997.
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Online ad sales in all media surged 26% to a record $15.2 billion in the first nine months of the year. By contrast, newspaper sales grew 20.9% in the same period to $2.3 billion.
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Kids aren’t just consumers of news but conduits too, emailing links and videos to pals. They rely on friends and online connections for news. They are replacing the professional filter with a social one. “If the news is that important, it will find me.
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Redefine the market based on the benefits. Break the benefits down into scarce and infinite components. Set the infinite components free, syndicate them, make them easy to get. Charge for the scarce components that are tied to infinite components.
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June 30, 2008 by Joshua Young
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June 28, 2008 by Joshua Young
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Nonpartisan Presidential Watch 2008 is a tool to see what citizens are saying on the Internet about the 2008 election. We monitor and analyze the important trends of the campaign, the opinions of citizens, and the evolving standings of the candidates.
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Glam Media’s ad serving technologies deliver superior brand engagement for Glam Media’s advertisers, publishers, and users. Glam provides relevant ads in the right context to the right user, adding value to the user experience with display advertising.
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June 27, 2008 by Joshua Young
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In part two of his seminar to the Guardian, as part of the Future of Journalism series, Jeff Jarvis argues that links are worth more than content
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Part one of Jeff Jarvis’s seminar to the Guardian as part of the Future of Journalism series
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