Tag: Publishers
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WordPress Themes Must be GPL
Image via CrunchBase This is a simple explanation of how GNU’s GPL works for programs like WordPress, Drupal, etc. which are open source, but nonetheless licensed. It also contains a very clear explanation of why the php must be GPL, but also, how that doesn’t mean a theme or other GPL product can’t be commercial.…
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Shirky on economic models for news organizations
“That the relationship between advertisers, publishers, and journalists has been ratified by a century of cultural practice doesn’t make it any less accidental.”via Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable « Clay Shirky. the pragmatists were the ones simply looking out the window and noticing that the real world was increasingly resembling the unthinkable scenario. These people…
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The 10 Major Newspapers That Will Either Fold or Go Digital Next – TIME
24/7 Wall St. has created a list of the 10 major daily papers that are most likely to fold or shutter their print operations and only publish online. The properties were chosen on the basis of the financial strength of their parent companies, the amount of direct competition they face in their markets and industry…
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outside.in » Aggregate, Curate & Network
http://blog.outside.in/2009/03/11/aggregate_curate__network/ Aggregate, Curate & Network March 11, 2009 at 7:02 pm · Filed under Announcements, General, Hyperlocal Notes· by mark Earlier this week we wrote about one person’s ideas on what newspapers need to do to survive and thrive. Today we want to talk more about the opportunity for a new model for local news,…
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The economy of abundance, and digital information, not internet is transforming media
COMING SOON: The 8 models of news operations that I identified and mentioned at the Chicago Journalism Townhall on Feb. 22. Here is a collection of what I’ve written and posted about “freeconomics” or the economics of abundance, when some products cost approaches zero, and making money off the “long-tail” becomes possible. Economies of scale,…
Barbara K Iverson 