Category Archives: Economic forces

Institutions, Confidence, and the News Crisis « Clay Shirky

Institutions, Confidence, and the News Crisis « Clay Shirky. Starkman doesn’t just criticize us (though he does that, at length.) He also puts forward a Burkean defense of institutional tradition as a store of embedded wisdom, arguing for the continued relevance of existing news organizations, especially newspapers, in something very close to their current form. …

December 10, 2011 – 6:15 pm | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in Economic forces | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

The Blog : The Future of the Book : Sam Harris

The Blog : The Future of the Book : Sam Harris. I am currently writing a traditional, printed book for my mainstream publisher, the Free Press. At the other extreme, I do a lot of writing for free, almost entirely on my blog. In between working for free and working for my publisher, I’ve begun …

October 4, 2011 – 1:58 pm | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in Economic forces | Comments (0)

Back to the future: Is media returning to the 19th century? — Tech News and Analysis

Back to the future: Is media returning to the 19th century? — Tech News and Analysis.     The Economist‘s series includes an overview of the media industry and separate pieces looking at the concept of crowdsourcing — or the “people formerly known as the audience,” to use a phrase coined by journalism professor Jay …

August 9, 2011 – 3:57 pm | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in Economic forces | Tagged , | Comments (0)

File-sharing has weakened copyright—and helped society

“Data on the supply of new works are consistent with our argument that file sharing did not discourage authors and publishers,” they write in their paper, “File-sharing and Copyright” PDF. “The publication of new books rose by 66 percent over the 2002-2007 period. Since 2000, the annual release of new music albums has more than …

June 26, 2010 – 8:54 am | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in Copyright, Economic forces | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Orszag’s Behavioralists Sway Obama Policy on Health, Finance – BusinessWeek

Generations of college economics students have been taught that consumers are rational creatures who make financial decisions by weighing price against usefulness. The alternative view, seeping into the Obama Administration, argues it’s not just about money. Social pressure and the way choices are presented can be just as important. It’s a new role for government: …

June 24, 2010 – 8:32 am | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in Economic forces, Examples | Comments (0)

Is This the Dawn of the Facebook Credit Economy? – Advertising Age – DigitalNext

Is This the Dawn of the Facebook Credit Economy? – Advertising Age – DigitalNext. Interesting that Cory Doctorow has just published his young adult novel about “gold farming” and how big real money gets moved, made, and laundered in games and virtual worlds. Disney launches a Facebook for kids, which is free, for now, but …

May 20, 2010 – 12:16 pm | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in Economic forces | Comments (0)

Baffler - Serfing the Net

Baffler - Serfing the Net. Very interesting critique of “Free” models, that contrasts free as in beer with free as in liberty. It refers to the Open Video Conference in NYC.

February 7, 2010 – 1:34 pm | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in Economic forces, Innovator/Pirates | Comments (0)

MediaPost Publications Why Conan O’Brien Can’t Go Just Internet — Yet 01/19/2010

Image via Wikipedia if Conan could get just as many people to engage with marketers through his online content, as might TRULY watch the commercials during a broadcast at the coveted 11:35 p.m. Monday to Friday time slot, he couldn't yet generate enough revenue to sustain the quality of his show. This is in spite …

January 19, 2010 – 12:38 pm | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in Economic forces, Examples | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Undoing the Industrial Revolution Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox

Undoing the Industrial Revolution Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox.

January 19, 2010 – 12:04 pm | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in Economic forces | Comments (0)

MediaPost Publications Consumers Will Pay For News if Unique, Not Yet Known 12/02/2009

MediaPost Publications Consumers Will Pay For News if Unique, Not Yet Known 12/02/2009. Totally shatters assumptions about news. Interesting that it was accompanied by ad for NPR sponsorships — the new way to advertise.

December 2, 2009 – 8:28 am | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in Economic forces, Examples | Comments (0)