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The money graph

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

TEDxNYed: This is bullshit

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

Where the TV fight goes

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

Get your PSA checked, men

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

Buffett on “terrible journalism”

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

Operational transparency

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

News(paper)

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

Marketing’s next

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

Demand Media’s advisors

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

Italy endangers the web

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

Media’s evolving spheres of discovery

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

Paid Content on paid content

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

OD on me

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

Helping news be news

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

Next to the gallows: Newspaper coupons

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

Buzz: A beta too soon

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

The German privacy paradox

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

They’re b-a-a-a-ck

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

Google’s Buzz(machine)

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

What Toyota should do

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

Stop selling scarcity

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

NewBizNews: What ad sales people hear

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

The Flip dance

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

The disrupted of Davos

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

Google news

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