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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.
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.
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 …
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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 of …
Poynter Online – Al’s Morning Meeting.
How a Former Local TV Anchor Started a Profitable Online News Site
Posted by Al Tompkins at 12:09 AM on Dec. 28, 2009 When my friend Rick Kupchella left his job as anchor and investigative reporter at KARE-TV in Minneapolis, many of us wondered what he was thinking. He left a …
Poynter Online – Transformation Tracker.
The Future of Nonprofit Journalism
Posted by David Shedden at 9:25 AM on Dec. 21, 2009 Latest links related to news organizations as nonprofits:
A Perception Issue
Jim Barnett, The NonProfit Road, Dec. 20, 2009
(See also: Nonprofits and Journalism: An Interview with Mark Jurkowitz
The Editors, The Nonprofit Qaurterly, Fall 2009)
The man who may supersize …