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The money graph

A new Pew study on the economics of news does not give comfort to news sites...

TEDxNYed: This is bullshit

Here are my notes for my talk to the TEDxNYed gathering this past weekend. I...

Where the TV fight goes

My first bit of advice to pissed-off Cablevision customers in New York —...

Get your PSA checked, men

Here’s audio of an appearance on The Takeaway on public radio this...

Buffett on “terrible journalism”

Warren Buffett — owner of one newspaper and director of another —...

Operational transparency

I am in Tampa waiting to fly back home to New Jersey and, thanks to the...

News(paper)

Friend Michael Rosenblum forwarded word that the Star-Ledger in New Jersey was...

Marketing’s next

Meredith, the magazine publisher, is taking on functions of ad agencies, as the...

Demand Media’s advisors

Demand Media just announced the formation of an advisory board; Staci Kramer...

Italy endangers the web

Italy is endangering the web. It convicted three Google executives for privacy...

Media’s evolving spheres of discovery

Here’s another in an occasional series of posts to that try to examine,...

Paid Content on paid content

Paid Content is holding a conference on paid content. I’m there. Sigh. No...

OD on me

I’m talking too much. For the rest of today (Friday), you can get free...

Helping news be news

Google News has just open-sourced its code to create what it calls Living...

Next to the gallows: Newspaper coupons

The best reason that some newspapers have to stay in print — at least a...

Buzz: A beta too soon

As soon as Buzz was announced — before I could try it — I tried to...

The German privacy paradox

As a group, Germans are more private than anyone I know. My German...

They’re b-a-a-a-ck

Hilarious. Just mention a rumor of Howard Stern replacing Simon Cowell on...

Google’s Buzz(machine)

I still need more time to get my head around Google Buzz, which will enable...

What Toyota should do

Including my parents, we own four Toyotas in my family; over time, we’ve...

Stop selling scarcity

If you are selling a scarcity — an inventory — of any nonphysical...

NewBizNews: What ad sales people hear

Recently, at CUNY, we held a roundtable for ad sales people from hyperlocal...

The Flip dance

At the Google party at Davos, I was enticed into doing the Flip dance with none...

The disrupted of Davos

The theme of this year’s World Economic Forum meeting at Davos was...

Google news

First, the news: Google told me today that they would consider giving more...