February 3, 2010 – 9:47 pm
A couple months ago Rupert Murdoch made waves by threatening to pull all of News Corp’s content from Google’s search index. Needless to say, the blogosphere went nuts.
Rupert Murdoch, the media tycoon who has long accused Google of ripping off content from his newspapers, said this weekend that his sites may soon disappear from the search engine’s listings.
Personally, I believe it was a bad idea then and may be an even worse idea now. However, a new voice has entered the debate, and it’s one that surprised me. Mark Cuban, the dot-com billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks has echoed Murdoch’s sentiments.
January 31, 2010 – 6:40 pm
In recent weeks I’ve had a seriously hard time convincing paywall advocates of the larger implications of such a move. Why retreat into the old print model? Find new digital business models to replace the flagging print revenue.
To lock content behind paywalls or, worse, keep it offline altogether, merely casts a newspaper’s destiny into the [...]
December 28, 2009 – 11:17 am
I’m going to sum this up:
Newspapers enjoy a monopoly brought on by the high cost of entry in the form of printing presses and legions of delivery boys.
Internet emerges.
Newspapers shovel their content online without regard to ways to exploit the emerging medium. They view it as another channel/platform for publishing the same content that they’ve [...]
December 19, 2009 – 11:08 am
When I moved into my first house I had a raft of home improvement projects but little money and few tools. The size of each project got magnified by my inability to buy the tools that would have dramatically reduced the time needed while increasing the quality of the work.
Fortunately, as my ambition for home [...]
December 17, 2009 – 11:30 am
One of my biggest problems with online news sites is the lack of innovation in distributing news and information.
Don’t get me wrong. There are some news organizations that are investing heavily in finding news ways users consume news and how best to meet those needs. Notably, the Washington Post does a nice job discussing their [...]
November 22, 2009 – 10:07 am
Abundant reasons why a newsroom should be responsible for a news Web site’s design rather than the online department and designers.
November 20, 2009 – 10:25 pm
My point is that newspapers that have any hope of survival must focus single-mindedly on what they do best — holding institutions accountable, exposing wrongdoing and generally kicking ass. While at the same time, they must seek the smartest, most creative people in their operations from whatever department they may be in, and give them the freedom to innovate.
November 8, 2009 – 1:46 am
I’m secure in the knowledge that a library of books will be written from a variety of perspectives because that’s what newspaper people like to do — a bunch of obsessive self-analysis and navel gazing.
November 7, 2009 – 11:53 pm
Rethinking Journalism has a great list of Rob Curley’s Top 6 ideas for newspaper online sites. It’s from September 2008, but it still holds true today.
November 7, 2009 – 11:38 pm
What CNN’s new design, as well all other news site designs, lack is a new way of thinking about stories in an online context. The problem is that current news site design is borne out of the print experience.
