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Free Content and Romanticism, More...
Posted by Amy Gahran 3:02 PM
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Are print subscribers paying for content, or delivery?
Another round of mini-Tidbits from current events in online news and media:
  • Howardowens.com, Free content isn't about romanticism; it's about business: "Sure, many people subscribe to print news, but as we've discussed before, they're really only paying for delivery, not the content. Users do pay for delivery online, just not to the newspaper company. They pay their broadband provider."

  • Virtual Economics, Strategically crippling technology: "Funny if it's true -- from the E&P article, it sounds as if the San Francisco Chronicle is installing touch-screen PCs in coffee shops that people will only be able to use to access the SFGate site. ...Trying to rebuild their old print distribution/gateway monopoly."

  • E-consultancy.com, Google launches bookmark sharing feature: "Google has launched its own version of Del.icio.us; a social bookmarking service called Google Shared Stuff that allows users to share their favorite links with friends. Add a browser button to bookmark any page, label it, then display it."

  • Cybersoc.com, Threat of libel suit sends U.K. blogs tumbling down: "A number of U.K. bloggers, including the Tory London Mayoral Candidate Boris Johnson, had their blogs taken down by their ISP Friday following threats of legal action by Uzbek billionaire Alisher Usmanov."

  • Center for Media Research: New research from Jupiter, "More online consumers are consistently more receptive to behaviorally targeted ads than to contextual advertising, outperforming contextual by as much as 22 percent in some categories."

  • Online Journalism Blog, Preston: Owners are to blame for press decline, not the net: "Danger in introversion: We don't notice the world changing around us until it's too late. Introversion means a fatal lack of communication in a communications business, and a refusal to make fresh connections or form new alliances."
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