http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/02/01/newspapers-need-to-get-a-clue-quickly/ ... at the intersection of media, technology, business and the web Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/02/01/newspapers-need-to-get-a-clue-quickly/comment-page-1/#comment-336965 The gorilla moves into local news - - mathewingram.com/media Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:36:24 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/index.php/2006/02/01/newspapers-need-to-get-a-clue-quickly/#comment-336965 [...] there will be the inevitable arguments, like the ones the World Newspaper Association and others keep trotting out, that Google is “stealing” eyeballs and readers who just want a quick summary of the [...] [...] there will be the inevitable arguments, like the ones the World Newspaper Association and others keep trotting out, that Google is “stealing” eyeballs and readers who just want a quick summary of the [...]

]]> http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/02/01/newspapers-need-to-get-a-clue-quickly/comment-page-1/#comment-336964 The gorilla moves into local news - - mathewingram.com/work Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:34:37 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/index.php/2006/02/01/newspapers-need-to-get-a-clue-quickly/#comment-336964 [...] there will be the inevitable arguments, like the ones the World Newspaper Association and others keep trotting out, that Google is “stealing” eyeballs and readers who just want a quick summary of the [...] [...] there will be the inevitable arguments, like the ones the World Newspaper Association and others keep trotting out, that Google is “stealing” eyeballs and readers who just want a quick summary of the [...]

]]> http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/02/01/newspapers-need-to-get-a-clue-quickly/comment-page-1/#comment-244708 Hey Google — stop linking to us » mathewingram.com/media Sat, 07 Apr 2007 17:06:56 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/index.php/2006/02/01/newspapers-need-to-get-a-clue-quickly/#comment-244708 [...] Sam has apparently decided to parrot the line taken by a Belgian copyright agency and by the World Newspaper Association, among others, who argue that Google News is “stealing” content from newspapers such as the Chicago Tribune (which Zell just acquired), and needs to be stopped. This simply isn’t true, as I have argued before, including here and here. On the contrary, newspapers get a tremendous benefit from being indexed by Google News, just as websites get a tremendous benefit from being indexed by Google’s search. [...] [...] Sam has apparently decided to parrot the line taken by a Belgian copyright agency and by the World Newspaper Association, among others, who argue that Google News is “stealing” content from newspapers such as the Chicago Tribune (which Zell just acquired), and needs to be stopped. This simply isn’t true, as I have argued before, including here and here. On the contrary, newspapers get a tremendous benefit from being indexed by Google News, just as websites get a tremendous benefit from being indexed by Google’s search. [...]

]]> http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/02/01/newspapers-need-to-get-a-clue-quickly/comment-page-1/#comment-244706 Hey Google — stop linking to us » mathewingram.com/work Sat, 07 Apr 2007 17:05:34 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/index.php/2006/02/01/newspapers-need-to-get-a-clue-quickly/#comment-244706 [...] Sam has apparently decided to parrot the line taken by a Belgian copyright agency and by the World Newspaper Association, among others, who argue that Google News is “stealing” content from newspapers such as the Chicago Tribune (which Zell just acquired), and needs to be stopped. This simply isn’t true, as I have argued before, including here and here. On the contrary, newspapers get a tremendous benefit from being indexed by Google News, just as websites get a tremendous benefit from being indexed by Google’s search. [...] [...] Sam has apparently decided to parrot the line taken by a Belgian copyright agency and by the World Newspaper Association, among others, who argue that Google News is “stealing” content from newspapers such as the Chicago Tribune (which Zell just acquired), and needs to be stopped. This simply isn’t true, as I have argued before, including here and here. On the contrary, newspapers get a tremendous benefit from being indexed by Google News, just as websites get a tremendous benefit from being indexed by Google’s search. [...]

]]> http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/02/01/newspapers-need-to-get-a-clue-quickly/comment-page-1/#comment-4032 Media is Jell-O, the Web is the wall » mathewingram.com/work Tue, 09 May 2006 16:46:18 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/index.php/2006/02/01/newspapers-need-to-get-a-clue-quickly/#comment-4032 [...] As for newspapers, debate is still all over the map about how to offer content online — and I should know, because we’ve had (and are having) plenty of that kind of debate at globeandmail.com. Is the subscription model working? Does it make sense to combine that with a partial “pay wall” as the Globe does and the New York Times recently started doing — or should content be free and advertising carry the freight? Does Google actually help, or is it stealing content in some way as the European Newspaper Publishers contend (that last one is the reddest herring I’ve probably ever seen, as I’ve mentioned before). [...] [...] As for newspapers, debate is still all over the map about how to offer content online — and I should know, because we’ve had (and are having) plenty of that kind of debate at globeandmail.com. Is the subscription model working? Does it make sense to combine that with a partial “pay wall” as the Globe does and the New York Times recently started doing — or should content be free and advertising carry the freight? Does Google actually help, or is it stealing content in some way as the European Newspaper Publishers contend (that last one is the reddest herring I’ve probably ever seen, as I’ve mentioned before). [...]

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