Category Archives: Examples

The Friday Podcast: Groupon! Monty Python! Price Discrimination! : Planet Money : NPR

The Friday Podcast: Groupon! Monty Python! Price Discrimination! : Planet Money : NPR. and Lots of people are discussing Felix Salmon’s excellent analysis of the economics of Groupon, which is really more about the fact that Groupon has dominated the space because it executes well. That is, it’s not about the idea, it’s about the …

May 9, 2011 – 5:08 pm | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in Examples | Comments (0)

Merchants of Culture: A Meditation on the Future of Publishing | Brain Pickings

Merchants of Culture: A Meditation on the Future of Publishing | Brain Pickings. Amazon finally unveiled the highly rumored and anticipated Kindle Singles, a new format for non-fiction works between 10,000 and 30,000 words — that’s longer than a magazine article and shorter than a novel — that authors can self-publish and sell for $1-$5, …

February 6, 2011 – 12:44 pm | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in Examples | Tagged , | Comments (0)

How GlobalPost Makes Money

TODAY: Egypt Turns Violent – A Webinar from the Cairo Streets Wednesday, February 2, 2011 4:30 PM – 5:00 PM EST Webinar Registration As the historic upheaval continues in the Middle East, join GlobalPost for a live breaking news call with our Cairo correspondent, Jon Jensen. Jensen has been covering the demonstrations around the clock. …

February 2, 2011 – 11:32 am | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in Customization, Examples, New business models | Comments (0)

Tish Grier’s E-Media Tips on New Models of Content Production

Image via CrunchBase Open Mic sites have their roots in the “Speaker’s Corner.” People drive the content production on these sites. Both Associated Content and Helium.com have Open Mic components to their content production models. Demand Media may be adding this to their offerings in the near future as well. Buzz Brokers analyze search trends …

July 9, 2010 – 11:07 am | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in Examples, Individuated Media, Innovator/Pirates, New business models | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Journalism 2.0 | Mark Briggs | A conversation about journalism and technology » Cross-Newsroom Collaboration: The New Reality

Journalism 2.0 | Mark Briggs | A conversation about journalism and technology » Cross-Newsroom Collaboration: The New Reality.

July 7, 2010 – 8:55 pm | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in Examples | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

At Yahoo, Using Queries to Steer News Coverage – NYTimes.com

Image by biverson via Flickr Yahoo software continuously tracks common words, phrases and topics that are popular among users across its vast online network. To help create content for the blog, called The Upshot, a team of people will analyze those patterns and pass along their findings to Yahoo’s news staff of two editors and …

July 6, 2010 – 1:19 pm | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in Examples, Individuated Media, Trends | 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)

American Spectator Hitting Readers Up for $26,000 in Donations | Media Matters for America

American Spectator Hitting Readers Up for $26,000 in Donations | Media Matters for America.

May 3, 2010 – 11:15 am | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in Examples | Comments (0)

InvestigateWest receives $100,000 grant from Ethics & Excellence in Journalism | InvestigateWest

InvestigateWest receives $100,000 grant from Ethics & Excellence in Journalism | InvestigateWest. Congratulations to the journalists of InvestigateWest who brought us this far — Robert McClure and Carol Smith, Kristen Millares Young and Daniel Lathrop. Nice job, everyone! And thanks to the many folks who have supported us out of the goodness of their hearts …

February 26, 2010 – 10:13 am | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in Examples | Comments (0)

Open Letter From OK Go – OK Go

With or without this embedding problem, we'll never get 50 zillion views on a YouTube video again. That moment – the dawn of internet video – is gone. The internet isn’t as anarchic as it was then. Now there are Madison Avenue firms that specialize in “viral marketing” and the success of our videos is …

January 21, 2010 – 4:50 pm | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in Examples | Comments (0)