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According to a report in the New York Post, the New York Times has decided to drop the Times Select pay wall that keeps most of its opinion and editorial content, including its popular op-ed columnists, locked up for paying customers only. The Post says that publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. has made the decision but [...]
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According to a post at PaidContent, the online audience for newspapers is growing twice as fast as the overall Internet population is growing. That comes from a study that Nielsen/Net Ratings did for (not surprisingly perhaps) the Newspaper Association of America. According to the study: An average of more than 59 million people (37.6 percent [...]
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So the World Trade Organization seems to have finally convinced the Russian government to take action on one of its favourite bugaboos: the existence of “pirate” music site Allofmp3.com, which has been happily charging people pennies to download millions of mp3 files from popular artists from around the world for several years now. According to [...]
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Newsweek has a story in the latest issue that looks at the success of Major League Baseball’s online strategy, which the magazine says is making about $400-million a year through MLB Advanced Media (or BAM, as everyone apparently calls it). It is growing at about 30 per cent per year and has about 50 million [...]
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I know it’s kind of late, but this is a story I wrote for the Globe and Mail about Justin.tv (original is here). It’s being called "lifecasting." Justin Kan, who coined the term, is the 23-year-old co-founder of a San Francisco-based company and the "star" of an Internet video experiment called Justin.tv. He wears a [...]
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