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Category Archives: Media
Sony BMG Thinks You’re a Thief
If you want to buy music, buying a CD is a good way of doing it. There’s no risk that some computer error will destroy your purchase, and it’s easy to transfer the songs onto your computer and iPod. Many … Continue reading
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Blogonomics: The Valuation of TechCrunch
Sam Gustin slaps down Henry Blodget today after Blodget suggested that TechCrunch might be worth $100 million. That’s ridiculous, says Gustin: "I know CNET, and TechCrunch is no CNET." The whole conversation was sparked by Doug McIntyre at 24/7 Wall … Continue reading
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Radiohead Roundup
Thom Yorke reckons that the music industry has a "decaying business model," and so he and his band, Radiohead, have decided to opt out of it. Go to their website, and you can download their new album for whatever you … Continue reading
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League Table of the Day
"It’s not my fault being the biggest and the strongest. I don’t even exercise." –Fezzick (André the Giant), The Princess Bride The top ten movies on iTunes, with their year of release Rank Title Year 1 The Princess Bride 1987 … Continue reading
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Adventures in Contextual Advertising
From Justin Fox’s Curious Capitalist blog:
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Blogonomics: RSS Feeds
Have I mentioned that I take requests? Today Sandy leaves a comment for me, asking me to explain the economics of RSS feeds; I’m happy to oblige. The comment keys off my description of FT.com’s decision to truncate its RSS … Continue reading
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FT.com Still Doesn’t Get It
What on earth are the executives at FT.com thinking? Instead of boldly following the lead of the NYT and making the site free, they’ve arrived at a weird compromise: articles and data will be free to users up to a … Continue reading
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Ben Stein Watch: September 30, 2007
I’m a uniter, not a divider. I’m a lover, not a fighter. I don’t like to engage in the politics of personal destruction. But as Jonathan Landman might say, we have to stop Ben Stein from writing for the Times. … Continue reading
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Proof that Manhattan is Still the Capital of the World
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The Greenspan Irony
Congratulations are due to Alan Greenspan, whose book still sits atop the Amazon bestseller list, and which sold, the WSJ says today, 129,000 copies in its first week. Or, to be precise, it sold at least 129,000, and probably more … Continue reading
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An Interactive Guide to the Econoblogosphere
Have at it.
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Four Reasons Why Time Warner Might Not Spin Off Time Inc
Sean Elder kicks off his guest-blogging stint over at Mixed Media in fine style this morning, with the story that Time Warner is thinking about an IPO of its magazine-publishing arm, Time Inc. I’m not convinced this will happen, for … Continue reading
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Transcending English
The Metaphor of the Day award goes to Alex Harrowell: The European issue in Britain has traditionally swung across the political spectrum, like a cow on a rolling deck, blundering into political parties and sending them flying like skittles. Harrowell, … Continue reading
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$0 vs $500
By now, there’s a very good chance that most of my readers are quite bored with my explanations of why it’s a Really Good Idea for WSJ.com to go free. But when I read Marek Fuchs yesterday, I couldn’t just … Continue reading
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Rational Exuberance Over Free Content
I’m convinced that WSJ.com, FT.com, along with every other newspaper website, will be entirely free sooner rather than later. Jeff Bercovici, on the other hand, isn’t: Are all the triumphalists ready to rule out the possibility that, somewhere down the … Continue reading
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Why WSJ.com Should Go Free
Sarah Ellison of the WSJ has more detail today on whether or not WSJ.com is likely to go free. Although Murdoch himself seems to see what a good idea it is, he is apparently getting pushback from Dow Jones CEO … Continue reading
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Murdoch Sees WSJ.com Going Free
It’s all but official: WSJ.com is going free. Rupert Murdoch himself said as much today, at a Goldman Sachs conference in New York: “We don’t mind what platform news appears on. We’re platform neutral: newsprint, your Blackberry, your PC or … Continue reading
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The Role of News in the Hedge Fund Economy
Paul Kedrosky picks up on a Bloomberg photo of hedge fund manager Adam Sender. By my count, he’s sitting in front of no fewer than eighteen screens (although one, mercifully, seems to be switched off). Also by my count, and … Continue reading
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People who use Google are Valuable
Megan McArdle doesn’t have a lot of faith in those of us who Google. People who arrive at a website from Google, she says, are "low quality" in terms of their value to advertisers: As far as advertisers are concerned, … Continue reading
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How Google Killed Web Subscriptions
Everybody knows that Google has won the search-engine war. But what’s much more important is that Google has won the search war – and the latest casualty is TimesSelect. The subscriber firewalls at the WSJ and the FT will be … Continue reading
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The Economics of Economist.com
Last week, when hunting for an article about geobrowsers, Stefan Geens discovered that the most recent issue of the Economist was available for free at economist.com. And this week, the same thing seems to be true. He emails me: For … Continue reading
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The Most Credible Financial Blogs
The credibility of Crain’s web reporter Aaron Siegel is questionable. He wrote
a whole article headlined "Credibility
of financial blogs is questionable," something he deduced from a report
edited by Spectrem Group’s Ed Eusebio.
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FT.com Struggling in the US
Paul
Kedrosky has a fascinating list of the most popular business websites in
the US.
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Bloomberg’s Pastorini Profile Appears
Back at the beginning of July, I wondered
where the long-awaited Bloomberg profile of Lawrence Niren (a/k/a Edward Pastorini,
a/k/a Theodore Roxford) might have got to.
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What is Ben Stein Smoking? (Part 3)
One of the great things about being on holiday in Europe is that there’s no chance of running across a Ben Stein column by mistake.
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