Category: Business models
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Medium Offers Publishers a Hand
Twitter begat Medium. Now Medium is slowly courting a “…small but growing group of independent publishers who’ve seen their websites become revitalized by joining Medium. Medium offers publishers a platform that is clean and hosted by Medium, so thus, no more WordPress or Drupaling around. Medium also offers advertising, sponsorship and membership as ways that a…
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Built in bias
One of the biases that people rely on when they make decisions is loss aversion: like in the insurance example above, they tend to overweight small probabilities to guard against losses. Even though the likelihood of a costly event may be miniscule, we would rather agree to a smaller, sure loss — in the form…
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Internet Traffic, Site Recognition Anomalies
Pew looked at which sites people are using to find out about politics, and found that HuffPost is getting many visitors, but they don’t credit it as the place they go to for political news. CNN Politics and Politico get named as sites people use, but don’t have the numbers. There are a couple of…
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Google Correlate. Political Operatives Find it Useful.
Morning Edition had a neat tech story about Google Correlate that you can listen to and get the quick summary. You can find the information you need about Google Correlate Compare US states Compare weekly time series Compare monthly time series Documentation Comic Book FAQ Tutorial Whitepaper Correlate Labs Search by Drawing
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Hyperlocal Publishers Form a Trade Group | Street Fight
A new trade association aims to unite independent hyperlocal publishers around common business interests and offer services that small publishers may not have access to on their own, such as health insurance. via Hyperlocal Publishers Form a Trade Group | Street Fight.
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Zite | Android Must-Have Apps
out there among others like Pulse, Editions, and Livestand, is of course Zite. Zite, unlike Flipboard actually learns your interests and serves you content based on your reading patterns. Kind of like my6sense does. Well, apparently Zite is on to something and CNN announced yesterday that it will be acquiring the young company for approximately…
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The Outlines of a Post-Industrial Global Economy Emerging
I agree with Marc Andreessen, venture capitalist, investor, and co-creator of Mosaic and then Netscape that software apps and broadband access worldwide is going to drive the economy. The old order economy is being disrupted, and will continue to be, and I think I buy into his contention that Wall Street undervalues technology companies and…
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From Feder: Who Is the Journalist Show at Medill
Who Is the Journalist? The Past, Present, and Future of News, on display through September 2 at Northwestern University Library in Evanston. If the powers that be had gone to such lengths to devalue the word “journalism,” how would they reflect my beloved profession and its heritage to the masses? The developer and curator of…
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Who Benefits from Broadband Usage Caps
Why don’t ISPs invest in infrastructure, create jobs, and expand service, rather than capping service and trying to drive up profits on increasingly crappy and restrictive service? Check out the new FCC.gov site, and study up on spectrum and then you can leave a comment encouraging the FCC to stop allowing short-term capitalist gain to…
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Drunk with Data, Economist at Google is on a Roll
Google also conducted 5,000 search experiments last year, which led to 400 search improvements (and the same again for ads experiments). Such insistent experimentation is an academic means to a capitalist end. Or, as Varian puts it: “Google is like a university, but with money.” It’s a cheering thought – and possibly why, in a…
Barbara K Iverson 