Audience scales, community does not. Go small or go home. News is not the best business model. It is expensive to gather, risky to publish and it depreciates in value faster than an ice cube…
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Page views are dollars and Google is robbing your local newspaper to pay a few big, national news outlets. Consider a few assertions that lean toward fact: The dominant subsidy model supporting digital news is…
Comments closedThe five degrees of separation between a “fact” and a FACT. This is part II of a totally random series of me being irritated by a media industry statistic. Part I was in 2013. The…
Comments closedHow is that for a niche SEO headline? When I migrated to a new MacBook Air – for some reason EndNote would not open citation files (.enw) by default. The trick is supposed to be…
Comments closedThe challenge of personalizing the news is the heterogeneity of our personal interests and the weakness of the signal we expose to the recommendation engine. As an example, below are four stories from around the country I was interested…
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