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Machinima: Philip Rosedale on creativity, virtual world growth, and evolving business models | The ARCH Network
I captured this brief, though very insightful, clip of Philip Rosedale addressing a ‘mixed reality’ audience streamed live from the Engage Expo in San Jose California, and in-world at the Metanomics event space.
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Zou u betalen voor uw online krant ? | Econoshock.be
The new site, hosted by a team of PG bloggers, will emphasize user interaction, with commenting throughout the site. Members also will be able to create a social networking profile to keep the conversation going.
launching members-only Web site
Obama: We Need To Bail Out Newspapers Or Blogs Will Run The World
Obama yesterday expressed concern at the sorry state of the news industry and said that he will look at a news paper bailout, because otherwise, blogs will take over the world, and that would be a threat to democracy, The Hill reports . "I am concerned that if the direction of the news is all blogosphere, all opinions, with no serious fact-checking, no serious attempts to put stories in context, that what you will end up getting is people shouting at each other across the void but not a lot of mutual understanding," he said. He said he would be happy to look a bills that could give tax newspapers tax-breaks if they were to restructure as 50 (c) (3) educational corporations.
Google CEO questions Murdoch's online pay plan | Technology | Reuters
CAMBRIDGE, England | Thu Sep 17, 2009 8:55pm EDTFELIX SALMON writes : Twitter seems to have quadrupled in value over the course of just a few months: after raising $35 million at a $250 million valuation earlier this year, it’s now raising another $50 million at a — wait for it — $1 billion valuation .
Twitter plus bubble equals twubble, er, trouble | Free exchange | Economist.com
O’Reilly may be an idiot, but his team gets membership concept: SteveOuting.com
Disclaimer: I think Fox News personality Bill O’Reilly is a big-mouth wingnut who spouts dangerous ideas.
Newspapers may be dying out even faster than we thought possible, as the numbers we’re about to present are not pretty. Last week, the Newspaper Association of America posted the quarterly financial data of the U.S. newspaper industry. It tracks both print and online revenues for the industry as a whole.
FREEFALL: Newspaper Revenues Crash By 29%
Want to charge for content online? Make it three dimensional « ThreeDimensionalPeople
Trying to save the consumer content industry (in particular newspapers and the record industry) by charging for digital content faces all sorts of problems.
The real sin: not running businesses « BuzzMachine
Like priests looking for someone to sacrifice, Alan Mutter , Steve Buttry , Howard Owens , and Steve Yelvington have been on the lookout for the sin that led newspapers astray.A few months back this post on Australian marketing website Mumbrella by journalism academic Stephen Quinn put the print to digital transition newspapers face into context.
Newspapers get little more than a tenth of their income from digital
Feeling a bit better after Aspen conference: SteveOuting.com
This week I was lucky enough to participate in an Aspen Institute conference, “ Of the Press: Models for Preserving American Journalism .” The participants were an all-star bunch, including Madeleine Albright (a journalist before becoming a diplomat) for day 1, Washington Post executive editor Marcus Brauchli, Marissa Mayer of Google, Craig Newmark of Craigslist, Federal Trade Commission chairman Jon Leibowitz, NPR CEO Vivian Schiller, and other assorted top dogs from News Corp., MediaNews Group, Associated Press, American Public Media, the Knight Foundation, etc. ( Here’s the full list ; it opens up a Word doc.)Third of three parts. Parts one and two .
How publishers can make web content pay
from the hello,-competition... dept With all the misleading claims about blogs and other sites acting as "parasites" or ripping off the news, there's a really good question that the big media properties don't seem to want to answer. If these sites are really attracting so much traffic... why not build one yourself?