Author: Dan Blank

When the Music Stops for Newspapers

The Financial Times takes a look at whether the “traditional” model of the newspaper industry is sustainable. “If you look very fundamentally at what is happening to the business, it is really a perfect negative storm, in the sense of loss of readership, loss of classified ads, and ultimately loss of display ads.” A great… Continue reading When the Music Stops for Newspapers

Original Content Creation vs. Aggregation

Scott Karp looks at how the web has fragmented the media industry: “The real divide now emerging is between companies that create original content and companies that create platforms for aggregating and distributing that content. Newspapers embody the old media world where content creation, aggregation, and distribution were inextricably linked. But the digital media revolution… Continue reading Original Content Creation vs. Aggregation

Blogging’s Past, Present and Future

Dan Farber of ZDnet gives an interesting overview of blogging’s past, present and future. Some highlights: Dave Winer, who many consider the father of blogging, both technically and culturally, has been blogging for close to a decade. “Every entity, from newspapers and political campaigns to corporate executives and PR pros, has adopted blogging as a… Continue reading Blogging’s Past, Present and Future

The State of the RSS Feed Market

Feedburner shares their view of the RSS feed market. With 604,533 feeds on behalf of 347,000 bloggers, podcasters and commercial publishers – they get a sense of the community like few others. “Audience engagement, which is to say, people reading feeds and people clicking on feeds – is how we’ve increasingly been interpreting feed subscription… Continue reading The State of the RSS Feed Market

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How the Audience Has Changed

More and more, people are consuming media differently, and have radically re-engineered how they communicate with the world. Jim Courtney of Skype Journal takes a look at our always on” culture. For media companies, this is very telling of how the lives of your audience has changed. Do people read less print media because of… Continue reading How the Audience Has Changed

A Relentless Focus on Customer Experience

The New York Times has an article about eBay’s struggle to reinvigorate their stock price. They focus on John Donahoe, president of one of eBay’s most important divisions, and gives a sampling of what an online company needs to do move the needle. It involves a relentless focus on customer experience. An interesting example: He… Continue reading A Relentless Focus on Customer Experience

Your Online Identity

OpenID is a ‘framework’ that is gaining traction online, allowing people to carry a single online identity across the web. Digg just announced that they are adopting OpenID. This is an area to watch as our offline lives become more integrated in our online lives.

A Newspaper Thrives Online

The International Herald Tribune and the New York Times each report on one Norwegian newspaper that is thriving in the new publishing world: No profit warnings here: Earnings rose 28 percent in the fourth quarter. Online operations will generate about 20 percent of the company’s revenue this year… Perhaps more important, at least for investors,… Continue reading A Newspaper Thrives Online

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What the ‘Social Web’ Thinks of You

Remember how concerned you were in high school about what people thought of you? Well, Read/Write Web checks out what the ‘social web’ thinks of them, by checking out their appreances on Digg, del.icio.us, and their own comments. An interesting how-to guide, with their conclusion: “Using social information to measure user information is an effective… Continue reading What the ‘Social Web’ Thinks of You