Newsday’s Paywall… the Numbers are in

In October of last year I wrote that Newsday’s paywall would fail to attract new revenue and as a defensive pricing strategy it does little.

In the final analysis, this is exactly why it will fail. By creating a pricing plan that defends rather than attacks a market the company is conceding defeat in print and [...]

Man Bites Dog or Who Really Owns a Community

Taunton Press is a respected publisher known for a family of publications beginning with “Fine” as in Fine Cooking, Fine Homebuilding, Fine Woodworking, and Fine Gardening, we well as series of hard bound books and a premium subscription online service. Each of their publications features an accompanying online component that includes videos, blogs, and most [...]

Opinion vs. Expertise

It’s not often that I disagree with Mike and I am not ready to fully do that here but he is not fully centered on the core issue either.

Kimball is correct that he should be better defining his brand and proving his worth — that’s what we’ve been saying all along. But you can do [...]

Facebook Connect and Anonymity

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As I look back over the evolution of blogs, community, and commenting/engagement on media sites, I have a mixed feeling about anonymity.

On one hand the ability to use a pseudonym has encouraged participation where it might not happen, but on the other it has enabled a raucous and at times [...]

Marc Cuban Is Psyched About Cable

Cuban is PSYCHED! Hey, it’s not like he doesn’t have a reason to shake the pom-poms for cable, right? He’s also been pretty vocal about his belief that content owners will never give up the fees they get from cable and go to a free online distribution model.

Marc Cuban just told me advances [...]

Is Twitter Killing RSS?

For media, there are two primary use cases for RSS, promotion of new content and content syndication. The latter is true plumbing that offers low cost, reliability and convenience while the former is a means for promoting new content through RSS client applications, widgets, iPhone apps, purpose specific apps, and so on… you see the [...]