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23 November 2013
Surprise: Paywalls Cause Massive Falls In Number Of Visitors - And Boost Competitors
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As Techdirt has been pointing out for years , newspaper paywalls make no sense. By stopping people from reading your stories unless t...
10 February 2013
Google's Other Bad Idea: Offering 50 Million Euros To French Newspapers [Updated]
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Earlier this week we wrote about a strange move by Google: apparently agreeing to pay the French telecoms company Orange extra to deliver...
06 January 2013
Mayor Of London Says Internet To Blame For British Press Sins
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The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson , is something of an institution in the UK, famous for his blond mop of hair and outrageous opinions....
08 December 2012
German Chancellor Says Only Print Media Can Teach You 'Real' Reading
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Angela Merkel may be Germany's Chancellor, and therefore a busy woman, but since she trained as a chemist , you might expect her to ha...
11 November 2012
Could Co-operatives Save Newspapers -- And Investigative Journalism?
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A couple of weeks ago, we reported that Rupert Murdoch's paywall at the London Times isn't looking like a huge success. That w...
07 March 2012
German Government Wants Google To Pay To Show News Snippets
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Some bad ideas just keep on coming back, despite the fact that they are manifestly stupid. Trying to get Google and others to pay for the...
29 December 2011
The Great Digitization Or The Great Betrayal?
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One of the great tasks facing humanity today is digitizing the world's books and liberating the huge stores of knowledge they contain....
11 April 2011
UK Newspapers Confirm Digital Death-Wish
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I thought I had plumbed the depths of the UK newspaper industry's stupidity when it came to digital. The idea that putting up paywalls ...
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21 June 2010
Copyright Ratchet, Copyright Racket
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I can't believe this. A few days ago I wrote about the extraordinary extra monopolies the German newspaper industry wanted - including ...
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20 June 2010
Should Retractions be Behind a Paywall?
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"UN climate panel shamed by bogus rainforest claim", so proclaimed an article in The Times earlier this year. It began [. pdf ]:...
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16 July 2009
Why Most Newspapers are Dying
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This is something that's struck me too: as is oh-so-typical in these situations, Osnos does nothing at all to engage or respond to the ...
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14 July 2009
Hamburg Declaration = Humbug Declaration
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You may have noticed that in the 10 years since Napster, the music industry has succeeded in almost completely ruining its biggest opportuni...
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03 March 2009
How to Save Investigative Journalism
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There's increasing hand wringing over the fact that revenues at dead-tree newspapers are diving, leading to redundancies, and loss of th...
29 December 2008
After Newspapers - Who's Next?
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Newspapers are dying - or so you might gather from articles like this.... On Open Enterprise blog .
08 August 2008
The Sun Shines on Asus
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What struck me about this article in the Sun about Asus was how it took its readership's acquaintance with GNU/Linux for granted: Inte...
15 November 2007
W(h)ither Blogging?
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Here's a thoughtful post : Somehow it seemed that blogging just isn't that hot anymore. The feeling has been exacerbated by the late...
12 October 2007
Read All About It! - But Not in Newspaper
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I'm making a promise to myself, and now to you, to reverse this trend. The future of journalism, not just newspapers, depends upon such ...
27 July 2007
The Value of Free Content
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One of the constant themes of this blog is that there's plenty of money to be made by giving away things for free. Here's an intere...
25 March 2007
Print Has Heard the Music of Time
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look at the difference in how each industry has reacted. The music industry continued to try and sue everyone it can in order to enforce a s...
20 February 2007
The Death of TV?
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Well, not quite, alas, but certainly an interesting shift : We think we know that the professional news media, especially newspapers, are ob...
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