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Demand Media: Content innovation means letting algorithms lead

By Michael Stoll - March 11, 2010

Game Changer Demand Media’s Byron Reese describes the different thinking about content and the process of creating content.

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Ashton Kutcher punked: We are a virus.

By Dale Peskin - February 2, 2010

If Ashton Kutcher’s 4.5 million Twitter followers make you feel inadequate, I’ve got good news: scientists investigating social networks have punked the “influentials” theory that drives celebrities to the top of the charts.
Aplusk, who boasts that he’s bigger than CNN, is apparently overrated. A new study finds that the importance of most influential spreaders in [...]

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Raising Voices: Amra Tareen at We Media

By Dale Peskin - February 1, 2010

Amra Tareen, the savvy and ebullient founder of AllVoices, has
just closed a $3 million funding round for the innovative, citizen journalism site. That brings funding to $9 million for the two-year-old start-up. Not bad. TechCrunch has a good take on the AllVoices funding.
How does she do it? Amra returns to We Media [...]

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Tabula Rasa: iPad’s blank slate

By Dale Peskin - January 28, 2010

The biggest surprise from yesterday’s unveiling of Apple’s iPad was that print publishers and journos weren’t terribly excited. “Waiting to be surprised. That hasn’t happened yet,” said Jim Roberts, the only New York Times wonk who didn’t confuse Steve Jobs with Moses. Valleywag has a good take on Print Media’s Big Tablet Letdown.
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Porn for publishers

By Andrew Nachison - December 17, 2009

Magazine and newspaper publishers have fantasized, for more than a decade, about the day when portable digital display technologies render paper, ink, printing, trucks, postage and home delivery obsolete. The flaw, of course, is expecting too much from technology – the next big thing.

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Robots, copyright and the whine at WAN

By Dale Peskin - December 14, 2009

We couldn’t get to Hyderabad for this year’s group hug of the world’s newspaper publishers, but it sounds like the old boys are getting feisty in their dotage. Forced once to postpone because of bad economics and waning interest, the reconvened World Newspaper Congress, organized by the merged World Association of Newspapers and IFRA, launched [...]

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Mr. Murdoch saves the news

By Dale Peskin - November 25, 2009

Dear Mr. Murdoch:
We’re so fortunate that we can entrust you with the future of the news business in the U.S. Such a shrewd business leader, too. Can you help a confused citizen understand your plan to save the news?

1. You’re going to charge people to read a story online that they won’t read, and [...]

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Hyper-Local Media. The 4th Branch of Gov2.0

By Ben Berkowitz - October 28, 2009

This is a true testimony to the magic of a system that allows for open communication and collaborative problem solving around public concerns. You can really see how media, industry, government and private citizens can work together to improve their communities:

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WeMedianomics

By Dale Peskin - October 16, 2009

How to profit from the business and behaviors of the Weconomy.

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Live online: Avner Ronen and Betsy Morgan

By Andrew Nachison - July 15, 2009

Today at Noon ET on the Naked Media show: Avner Ronen, CEO of media aggregation startup Boxee, and Betsy Morgan, former CEO of Huffington Post. Details here.

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Doh. I just laid off my business model

By Dale Peskin - May 11, 2009

Each day brings another story that publishers are lurching to the business model that will save newspapers: charging for online content. Yet, each day brings news of additional buyouts and layoffs in newsrooms. Sometime soon, the publishers are going to figure out the next problem: they neither have enough good content that’s worth selling nor [...]

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Clemens, Kindle and Congress: History rhymes

By Dale Peskin - May 8, 2009

History may not repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme, observed Samuel Clemens. I was reminded of Clemens’ vision and failures amid this week’s hoopla over the new Kindle as well a Congressional hearing held today on the crisis in newspapers.
Clemens was a visionary who foresaw the age of invention. He wrote a glorious fable [...]

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Ask The Audience!

By Brian Reich - May 5, 2009

The Senate Commerce Committee announced announced the lineup for their hearing about the future of journalism.  The list of speakers includes:

Senator Ben Cardin
Marissa Mayer – Vice President, Search Products and User Experience, Google
Alberto Ibarguen – President and Chief Executive Officer, The Knight Foundation
David Simon – Author, TV Producer and Former Newspaperman
Steve Coll – Former [...]

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Magazines: Underwhelming, not undervalued

By Brian Reich - April 14, 2009

According to the New York Times, magazine publishers are trying to figure out if they can raise their prices without losing subscribers.
The answer is no.
I subscribe to more than twenty magazines, including Time, Newsweek, US News, The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Vanity Fair, GQ, Sports Illustrated, Wired, and GOOD.  I read every single magazine cover [...]

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My Challenge to Google Ventures

By Brian Reich - March 31, 2009

Google announced this week that they were creating a venture capital arm whose main objective will be to turn a profit.  The group, called Google Ventures, is expected to invest up to $100 million in the next 12 months.
The New York Times article on the announcement notes that “Google will tap the connections of its [...]

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