Category Archives: New business models

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.

August 18, 2009 – 8:55 am | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in New business models | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

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 …

August 14, 2009 – 5:05 pm | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in Economic forces, Innovator/Pirates, New business models, Open Source v. Proprietary | Comments (0)

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 …

August 14, 2009 – 4:21 pm | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in New business models, New Roles | Comments (0)

P2P Not to Blame for Content Industry Failures Says EU

Image via Wikipedia P2P Not to Blame for Content Industry Failures Says EU. The report finds, in a surprising contradiction to what industry executives have been spouting for ages, consumers’ behavior has nothing to do with the peer-to-peer technology (P2P) that has given rise to all-you-can-eat systems for free downloads of copyrighted content. In fact, …

August 13, 2009 – 12:33 pm | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in About audiences, Economic forces, New business models, Trends | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

As Studios Cut Budgets, Indie Filmmakers Go Do-It-Yourself – NYTimes.com

Image via Wikipedia Here is the new way: filmmakers doing it themselves — paying for their own distribution, marketing films through social networking sites and Twitter blasts, putting their work up free on the Web to build a reputation, cozying up to concierges at luxury hotels in film festival cities to get them to whisper …

August 13, 2009 – 9:02 am | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in Examples, Innovator/Pirates, New business models | Comments (0)

Evaluating the New Models | Save the News

A number of alternative models for the news — recent experiments, long-standing ventures and ideas yet to move beyond the blueprint phase — hold clues for what new press institutions and new forms of journalism may look like. On the pages that follow, we briefly summarize some of the new ideas and specific policy proposals …

August 11, 2009 – 11:07 am | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in New business models | Comments (0)

New Rules for the New Economy

New Rules for the New Economy. by Kevin Kelley Being reissued for 10th anniversary. Strategies 1. Move tech to invisibility 2. If its not animated, animate it. (add a chip to it.) 3. If its not connected, connect it. 4. Distribute knowledge — parts need to be aware of what the system knows. 5. If …

August 9, 2009 – 4:23 pm | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in About audiences, New business models, Open Source v. Proprietary | Tagged | Comments (0)

Chris Anderson on the Economics of ‘Free’: ‘Maybe Media Will Be a Hobby Rather than a Job’ – SPIEGEL ONLINE – News – International

Anderson: Attention and reputation are two non-monetary economies. The vast majority of people online write for free. We’ve tried paying some of our bloggers and they thought it was insulting. They’re not doing it for the money, they’re doing it for attention and reputation, or just for fun. For example, two years ago, I started …

July 29, 2009 – 12:24 pm | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in Economic forces, New business models | Comments (0)

“We’re changing our Web site” by Editors’ Notebook

“We’re changing our Web site” by Editors’ Notebook. Site will charge for website that had been free…

July 29, 2009 – 12:09 pm | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in New business models | Comments (0)

Digital Nomads Ditch Cubicles for Shared Spaces, Choosing Their Co-Workers – washingtonpost.com

Nomad life is already evolving. Nomads who want the feel of working with officemates have begun co-working in public places or at the homes of strangers. They work laptop-by-laptop in living rooms and coffee shops, exchanging both idle chitchat and business advice with people who all work for different companies. The gatherings are called jellies, …

July 29, 2009 – 7:57 am | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in About audiences, New business models | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)