Marjorie Scardino has backed off making ft.com open access, reports PaidContent.org. Apparently, she has had a change of heart after considering the role of the FT in “mediation” in a sea of competing voices. Paying subs were 7% up last year at 90,000.
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Jeff Jarvis on the way things used to be in the newspaper world, and the way they will be in the future.
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Researchers from the University of Maryland in Baltimore County (UMBC) have produced some analysis which they say suggests the English speaking blogosphere may have peaked.
A new video editing tool called Mojiti aims to allow in-vido addition of comments to online videos.
Just spotted it – though it’s old news: Techtarget, the b2b lead generation site, has filed for an IPO worth $75m, reports PaidContent.org.
PaidContent has the details of the spat between the major newspaper sites in the UK over who is the biggest. The Electronic Telegraph is currently running a campaign claiming that it is the number one “quality” newspaper site – citing Hitwise data to prove it. The Guardian, which uses Nielsen/Netratings data, says that proves Guardian Unlimited is number one (although both are behind the tabloids according to Comscore). Simon Waldman of the Guardian then goes on to post in great detail about metrics. All of which just serves to raise the argument yet again as to what precisely is the best way to measure audience online.
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Business 2.0 lists the companies they think might make it big this year, including Stumbleupon, Joost and Slide.
What does it take for customers to trust Web 2.0 companies? asks Steve Rubel. For example, he raves about Netvibes but won’t give them his Gmail username and password as he’s not sure whether or not to trust them – they are French, you see….
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Steve Rubel reports on Yahoo! Answers decision to start carrying “sponsored questions” – advertising by another name. The reaction, he says, has mostly been positive from users who recognise that free services need to be commercially supported somehow. However, he says, as the company moves to commericalise its other communities – work is already underway at Flickr – there are risks of consumer alienation. One to watch.
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Jeff Jarvis airs a new rule for journalists: “cover what you do best; link to the rest”.
In the rearchitecture of news, what needs to happen is that people are driven to the best coverage, not the 87th version of the same coverage. This will work for publications and news organizations. It will also work for individuals; this is how a lone reporter’s work (and reputation) can surface.