FTC: Don't blame Google for newspaper woes | ZDNet Government | Newspapers all across the U.S. and Canada all have something in common, falling advertising revenues. Some of the most famous newspapers are facing bankruptcy. In Canada, five of the largest metropolitan newspapers are being auctioned off in a package deal after owner Can West Global defaulted on its loans. Hal Varian, Chief Economist at Google, recently attended a FTC workshop in Washington D.C. and presented a unique perspective on newspaper economics. In his Google blog he clarifies his views further. The news industry's financial problems started well before the web came along. In the last five years many more people have been reading the news online: About 40% of internet users say they looked at online news "yesterday." However, visitors to online newspaper sites don't spend a lot of time there. There's a reason for the relatively short time readers spend on online news: a disproportionate amount of online new reading occurs during working hours. What about search engines?
Broadcast Yourself Around the globe, YouTube has become a metaphor for the democratizing power of the Internet and information. YouTube gives unknown performers, filmmakers, and artists new ways to promote their work to a global audience and rise to worldwide fame; makes it possible for political candidates and elected officials to interact with the public in new ways; enables first-hand reporting from war zones and from inside repressive regimes; and lets students of all ages and backgrounds audit classes at leading universities. Yet YouTube and sites like it will cease to exist in their current form if Viacom and others have their way in their lawsuits against YouTube. In their opening briefs in the Viacom vs. YouTube lawsuit (which have been made public today), Viacom and plaintiffs claim that YouTube doesn't do enough to keep their copyrighted material off the site. With some minor exceptions, all videos are automatically copyrighted from the moment they are created, regardless of who creates them.
cdixon.org – chris dixon's blog The Newsweekly’s Last Stand - The Atlantic (July/August 2009) Image: Stephen Webster Newsweek’s recent decision to get out of the news-digesting business and reposition itself as a high-end magazine selling in-depth commentary and reportage follows Time magazine’s emergency retrenchment along similar lines. It accelerates a process by which the 76-year-old weekly will purposely reduce its circulation from 2.7 million to a bit more than half of that. (Its circulation was nearly 3.5 million in 1988.) Likewise, Time’s circulation, which 20 years ago was close to 5 million, is now at 3.4 million. Both newsweeklies are seeking to avoid the fate of U.S. These tactical retreats by Newsweek and Time are brave stabs at relevance in a changing media environment. In the digital age, with its overabundance of information, the modern newsweekly is in a particularly poignant position. Given that even these daily digests are faltering, how is it that a notionally similar weekly news digest—The Economist—is not only surviving, but thriving?
Summary of “Magazines and their websites” – Columbia Journalism The first study (PDF) of magazines and their various approaches to websites, undertaken by Columbia Journalism Review, found publishers are still trying to work out how best to utilise the online medium. There is no general standard or guidelines for magazine websites and little discussion between industry leaders as to how they should most effectively be approached. Following the responses to the multiple choice questionnaire and the following open-ended questions - What do you consider to be the mission of your website, does this differ from the mission of your print magazine?What do you consider to be the best feature of aspect of your website? - the researchers called for a collective, informed and contemporary approach to magazine websites with professional body support. The findings were separated into the following 6 categories: Staff Structure and Decision Making The researchers found decision making on the website to be the single most important factor in how its website functions.
Les dessous de l'affaire YouTube-Viacom, par les intéressés - Et Le procès Viacom-YouTube vient de prendre une nouvelle et bien croustillante tournure. Cela fait trois ans déjà que le premier, maison-mère de MTV, réclame 1 milliard de dollars au second pour avoir hébergé des vidéos dont le site de vidéo de Google ne détenait pas les droits. Pour faire pencher la balance, chacune des parties vient de lever le voile sur tout le linge sale qu'il a pu amasser sur son adversaire en quelques années. L'occasion d'apprendre des choses pour le moins savoureuses sur les deux parties. Viacom a délibérément chargé ses contenus sur YouTube tout en lui faisant un procès. Et en douce, a ainsi révélé l'avocat de YouTube sur le blog de l'entreprise jeudi soir. Les fondateurs de YouTube pensaient qu'à s'enrichir très vite, révèle de son côté Viacom dans ses éléments confiés à la justice ("Viacom Statement of Undisputed Facts"). Ils ont plutôt bien réussi leur pari, touchant respectivement : [plus de documents savoureux sur Viacom.com et AllThingsD ]
Highlights Key Predictions for IT Organizations and Users in 201 STAMFORD, Conn., January 13, 2010 View All Press Releases This Year's Predictions Span 56 Markets, Topics and Industry Areas Gartner, Inc. has highlighted the key predictions that herald long-term changes in approach for IT organizations and the people they serve for 2010 and beyond. Gartner's top predictions for 2010 showcase the trends and events that will change the nature of business today and beyond. These predictions were selected from across Gartner’s research areas as the most compelling and critical predictions. "As organizations make plans to navigate the economic recovery and prepare for the return to growth, our predictions for 2010 focus on the impact of critical changes in the balance of control and power in IT," said Brian Gammage, vice president and research fellow at Gartner. Gartner’s top predictions are intended to compel readers to action and to position themselves to take advantage of coming changes, not to be damaged by them. Mr. Contacts About Gartner Gartner, Inc.
Economist's View: "Why This New Crisis Needs a New Paradigm of Economic Thought" [More Side of the road blogging - stopped for a moment at the Great Salt Lake.] When I talked to the senate's COP panel, one of many things that I emphasized was the need to develop plans in advance to deal with various contingencies. Without such plans policy actions - even justifiable ones - appear ad hoc and also face resistance that delays their implementation or prevents them from being put into place altogether. For example, we need a plan on the shelf and ready to go for dismantling large banks that have failed, something that has received a lot of attention. It has received much less attention, but I also think we need a plan for disposing troubled financial assets when the need arises. Why this new crisis needs a new paradigm of economic thought, by Keiichiro Kobayashi, Commentary, Vox EU: The policies being debated in the US and Europe today are almost identical to those that played out in Japan a decade or so ago. Japan redux? The challenge for macroeconomics References
Des envies... - Benoît Raphaël sur LePost.fr Médias 03/03/2010 à 13h43 - mis à jour le 03/03/2010 à 14h16 | vues | réactions Quitter un média que l'on a fait naître, ce n'est jamais simple. Mais je quitte Le Post avec le sourire. C'était une aventure extraordinaire, une aventure humaine avant tout, lancée en 2007 avec Bruno Patino, alors président du Monde Interactif, Dao N'Guyen (qui travaille désormais au Wall Street Journal à New York), Yann Chapellon (qui est en train de révolutionner la PQR dans le Sud-Ouest), Jean-François Fogel (l'une des plus incroyables rencontres de ma carrière), Thomas Doduik (qui a, depuis, mis un peu de "Post" au Figaro.fr où il opère) et une poignée de jeunes journalistes pionniers, Violaine Domon, Pierre Godon, Antoine Daccord (aujourd'hui au Figaro.fr), Alexandre Lemarié, Alexandra Apikian, Angélique Vernier, et mon ancien adjoint Alexandre Piquard, qui assurera l'intérim. Bruno Patino m'avait dit, la veille de mon embauche qu'il fallait désormais envisager l'info comme une expérience.
Aardvark Acquired By Google TechCrunch reports Google has acquired Aardvark, a help engine, for $50 million. Aardvark allows you to ask questions, which then pushed the question out to a network of people who may be able to answer them. The answers are then sent back to you via instant message, email or even Twitter. Aardvark was created by former Googlers and hasn’t taken on the traction that I expected early on. Google has not yet confirmed the acquisition. Postscript: Google sent me a statement confirming the acquisition. We have signed a definitive agreement to acquire Aardvark, but we don’t have any additional details to share right now. Postscript #2: Google posted a blog entry, as did Vark today on this deal. As a first step, effective immediately, Aardvark will be available through Google Labs. Related Topics: Channel: Industry | Google: Acquisitions | Google: Business Issues | Top News
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Journalism 2.0 | Mark Briggs | A conversation about journalism a April 6th, 2009 Drop what you’re doing and take 30 minutes to listen to Brooke Gladstone’s interview with Lee Rainie for the latest edition of On the Media . The two discuss the results of the Pew Center’ s latest survey on the future of the Internet. No, not even 600 “experts” can predict the future. But the discussion of the trends, implications and opportunities that will evolve in the digital age is insightful and, at least to an optimist like me, inspiring. Among the highlights: The Internet will become completely ubiquitous. If you’re thinking about the future of journalism, here’s the place to start. The answers to these questions are based largely on your experience, expertise and the opportunity around you (geographically or topically). ShareThis You can skip to the end and leave a response.