Does YouTube Threaten Text?
YouTube is the #2 search engine in the world. Will digital natives be more video-centric than text-centric?
Content Is Dethroned
Content from yesteryear no longer works in the modern world. We have to re-imagine.
Suicidal Subscriptions
Is the fate of print pre-ordained, or an outcome of suicidal circulation strategies?
Shrinking Pie = Lost Waste
A major label is now getting most of its revenues from digital sources, but the pie is shrinking. Is it? Or is it just showing how inflated the pie was in the era of fixed media?
10,000 Kindle Subscriptions
The New York Times has 10,000 Kindle subscribers. What else is coming?
Are Publishers Anti-Publishing?
Do publishers really believe in what they do? Or have they essentially thrown in the towel?
They Don’t Care!
And apparently, you don’t care about how others do, either.
Open Source Lessons
Open source has come to hardware, illustrating again why the lessons still don’t apply to scholarship.
Internet Trends 2008
Morgan-Stanley’s 2008 Internet Trends report is out, and the shocks emanate from the complex interrelationships of the trends.
Social Media Grows
A new report from Forrester Research (paid report) reveals that social media is growing in nearly every way possible, with some aspects rocketing into majorities of the population. The author of the report, Josh Bernhoff, provides an overview in his […]
Big News, Small Newspaper
The Christian Science Monitor drops daily print. The big news may be that it still exists at all.
Subscription Toys
The subscription model retains many virtues, but making it work in the digital world requires new toys.
The 0.7% Book Settlement
For a fraction of their revenues, Google creates a win-win.
OpenID Goes Mainstream
Microsoft adopts OpenID in its Windows Live environment. Dick Hardt’s argument seems poised to win the day.
Is the Facebook Platform Dead?
Once touted as Platform 2.0, Facebook is now suffocating its applications to make room for a new growth strategy every Web publisher should see coming.