One of my strongest interests this year has been news and content business models, and how to pay for content that’s given away free online. As a blogger (and my professional interest as a writer, researcher, and consultant on news business...
Topics: Blogging, crowdfunding, kachingle, payyattention, surfshare

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I’ve been getting some pushback on my previous blog item about Newsday’s decision to put up a subscription wall to its website content except for Newsday print subscribers and subscribers of Optimum Online cable/Internet service (same...
Topics: memberships, newsday

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What’s wrong with this webpage I encountered the other day?Besides the lack of wisdom of a general-interest newspaper (Newsday) putting a pay wall on its website for non-unique content (my opinion, shared by many other media experts), the worse...
Topics: micropayments, newsday

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Earlier today Howard Weaver tweeted the following, which I can’t answer in 140 characters (!) so I’ll respond here. …“Why do people (@steveouting et al) keep saying ‘block level’ info is best premium opportunity? Seems.
Topics: Personalization

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So, it appears that we’ve passed the point within the newspaper industry of utter panic and all the publishers will not be colluding (ahem… I mean cooperating) to put most of their websites’ content behind pay walls. At least that...
Topics: premium content

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