Interesting discussion towards the end of last week between Five Live presenter Simon Mayo and ITV’s executive chairman Michael Grade.* Inevitably, they talked Susan Boyle, star of YouTube for the month of June and Grade made a pitch for micropayments.…
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YouTube If You Want To: Why Susan Boyle Won’t Save Michael Grade’s Micropayment Plan
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Scarcity, Abundance And The Misapprehension Of Online Advertising
In the latest offering to the gods and goddesses of Journalism.co.uk I pose the following question: What if the business model for news ain’t broke? My chosen text is Free: The Future of a Radical Price, in which author Chris…
Crowdsourcing 1920s-Style
Much maligned it may be by Malcolm Gladwell and others. Faultless it is not. But Chris Anderson’s follow-up to The Long Tail is a great read, full of insight and anecdote, and - for the large part - convincing. I also think…
‘I Consider Google News A Gift, Newspapers Consider It Theft.’
The folk at Random House assured me it would be with me yesterday. Yet the postman didn’t even ring once. So no copy of Chris Anderson’s latest, Free: The Future of a Radical Price. So I’ll have to make do…
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