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17
Jan

The meter is running

Metered reading is apparently the new ‘black’ in journalism business circles. In evidence: The New York Times‘ apparent move in
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17
Jan

Testing the waters

Two Ottaway / Dow Jones papers in New Bedford, MA and Stockton, CA launched paywalls this week. This creates a great
13
Jan

Kindle why?

I love gadgets. If I was in a higher tax bracket I would live at CES and buy everything there
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01
Jan

The three percent problem

I read the Harris Poll on ‘time spent online‘ with some interest a few weeks back. The average Web user
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04
Dec

Where does the paywall go?

After seeing Steve Yelvington’s paywall infographic this week I was struck by two things. 1) I recognized the pattern
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14
Jun

Live from 39,000 feet

What is it about new toys? My flight back from Las Vegas this afternoon (Southwest 1159) was on one of
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03
Jun

The Kindle/Google/distribution problem

An interesting quote from Jonathan Miller (once-upon-a-time my boss’ boss’ boss’ boss at AOL) talking about Kindle, the WSJ.com
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10
May

A local problem for Google?

I went looking for he phone number for our local bike shop this morning. I know where the shop is
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10
Apr

The life of a tweet

I sent a note out over Twitter earlier today trying to gather some additional responses to a Web Tools Survey
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08
Apr

Is this illegal?

Is it wrong to embed/share an Associated Press video? Apparently there are some crossed lines at AP. It is