Category Archives: New business models

News sourcing experiment to rely solely on Facebook, tweets

News sourcing experiment to rely solely on Facebook, tweets.
An actual news experiment with comparison between covering news with Facebook and Twitter, and covering news traditional ways.

WSJ’s McLeod: ‘No Brainer’ To Charge For Mobile; ‘We’re About To See What Really Works’ | paidContent

WSJ’s McLeod: ‘No Brainer’ To Charge For Mobile; ‘We’re About To See What Really Works’ | paidContent.

In The New York Times Magazine: Quirky.com

In The New York Times Magazine: Quirky.com.
Quirky.com lets inventors put out an idea. The “drawing board” is crowd sourced. Anyone can comment on ideas. For $99 you can submit an idea which is then honed through iterations. When the production deals are worked out with manufacturers and suppliers, the idea goes “public” and it must

The Future of News, Viewed From Aspen’s Rarefied Atmosphere

The Future of News, Viewed From Aspen’s Rarefied Atmosphere.
Basically, this is the same conclusion that I have come to.

Dollar by Dollar, Patrons Find Artists on the Web – NYTimes.com

Dollar by Dollar, Patrons Find Artists on the Web – NYTimes.com.
“a sustainable marketplace where people exchange goods for services or some other benefit and receive some value.”
Kickstarter, a start-up based in Brooklyn that uses the Web to match aspiring da Vincis and Spielbergs with mini-Medicis who are willing to chip in a few dollars toward

Wikipedia Will Limit Changes on Articles About Living People – NYTimes.com

Wikipedia Will Limit Changes on Articles About Living People – NYTimes.com.
notable quotes from the story:
Wikipedia has just surpassed three million articles, that freewheeling ethos is about to be curbed.
“flagged revisions,” will require that an experienced volunteer editor for Wikipedia sign off on any change made by the public before it can go live.
The new system

News Innovation |  New Business Models

News Innovation |  New Business Models.
Jeff and group provide big biz answers to my questions. I like the prezi presentation of this narrative.
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Aspen NewBizNews 5

Aspen NewBizNews 5.
I am so jealous and in awe of Jeff. This is a very cool presentation. An economy of words, wrapped in clean visualizations, and Jeff knows how to make the example budgets.

Edge: ECONOMICS IS NOT NATURAL SCIENCE By Douglas Rushkoff

These are passages I want to cite from the full work by Rushkoff.
the genuinely relevant question: whether the economic model, the game rules set in place half a millennium ago by kings with armies, can continue to hold back the genuine market activity of people enabled by computers.
The decentralizing bias of new media is thus

12 Things Newspapers Should Do to Survive

12 Things Newspapers Should Do to Survive.

Put web first and report from multiple platforms
Nichify (go niche)
Offer unique print content–”adding context to news that has been posted, shared and retweeted online.This also changes the roles of journalists quite a bit.
Journalists be curators and contextualizers -currently newspapers own less than 1 percent of U.S. online audience page