Category: New economic 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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Online Digital Newsroom Coming Up at Columbia
Nearly 30 percent of all higher education students take at least one class online. More than 60 percent of chief academic officers said that online education was critical to their long-term strategy, according to a Sloan Consortium report, “Class Differences, Online Education in the United States, 2010.” via More college students taking degree programs online […]
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Tim Wu on Monopolies and Information Industry
Info-monopolies tend to be good-to-great in the short term and bad-to-terrible in the long term. For a time, firms deliver great conveniences, powerful efficiencies and dazzling innovations. That’s why a young monopoly is often linked to a medium’s golden age. Today, a single search engine has made virtually everyone’s life simpler and easier, just as […]
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Internet Founder Tim Berners-Lee Details 4 Concerns About Future of Mobile Web (Nokia World 2010)
Berners-Lee explained that data drives development on mobile, just as it does on the Web as a whole. Even a basic calendaring type of application is data-driven. By combining the aspects of mobile technology, like location-awareness, with the semantic Web of data, entirely new types of mobile applications can exist. Most recently, augmented reality applications […]
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Diaspora and How We Will Make Money
What’s interesting is that this underlines the commonality between writing songs and writing code, and how the same approach to financing can be used for both (something I've written about before.) I think that’s important, because it offers a new way of getting free software projects off to a good start. Rather than just hacking […]
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Steve Myers’ Interview with Nicolas Kristof on Tech and Global Journalism
Poynter Online – E-Media Tidbits. Interesting reflection on how cellphones and Twitter would have affected Tianemen Square events and how tech can bring us closer to victims of catastrophes that happen far away. Viral games to sell your news – think about that one. Good job, Steve.
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J-Lab’s Jan Schaffer on the Future of News
In this future, both professional and amateur journalists will need to engage in more than just journalism, however. They must engage in new kinds of “news work” to serve their audiences. News work? Fact entrepreneurs? Credit goes to Columbia University doctoral student Chris Anderson for these new terms. They help us understand that journalism in […]
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Non-Profit Launching Coverage of Illinois State Government
ISN is a project of the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity, a non-profit, non-partisan organization that on its Web site emphasizes its support of “free markets.” “Cash-strapped news organizations are cutting back in many areas including state government coverage, leaving voters less informed,” ISN said in its launch announcement. “ISN is committed to […]
Barbara K Iverson 