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Payyattention widget ends. New direction: emergent authority

Regular readers of this blog will have noticed that I’ve been playing around with alpha and beta versions of some content payment and donation solutions. Today I deactivated Payyattention, which added a widget at the end of article pages asking for a ...

From STEVE OUTING, SteveOuting.com,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Digg,  Twitter Inc,  Google Inc.

Kachingle beta goes live (Kachingle me, please!)

One of my strongest interests this year has been news and content business models, and how to pay for content that’s given away free online. As a blogger (and my professional interest as a writer, researcher, and consultant on news business models), ...

From STEVE OUTING, SteveOuting.com,  15 Nov 2009

A better Newsday.com model

I’ve been getting some pushback on my previous blog item about Newsday’s decision to put up a subscription wall to its website content except for Newsday print subscribers and subscribers of Optimum Online cable/Internet service (same ownership). This ...

From STEVE OUTING, SteveOuting.com,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.

Newsday’s pay wall: From bad to worse

What’s wrong with this webpage I encountered the other day? Besides the lack of wisdom of a general-interest newspaper (Newsday) putting a pay wall on its website for non-unique content (my opinion, shared by many other media experts), the worse part ...

From STEVE OUTING, SteveOuting.com,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc

Why I think ‘block level’ news, data is important

“Why do people (@steveouting et al) keep saying ‘block level’ info is best premium opportunity? Seems *most* likely to be citizen generated.” –@howardweaver I don’t recall saying it’s the “best” premium online content opportunity, though I think it’s ...

From STEVE OUTING, SteveOuting.com,  7 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Flickr,  Facebook Inc.,  Google Inc.

So what exactly is newspaper web ‘premium’ content? Please tell me

So, it appears that we’ve passed the point within the newspaper industry of utter panic and all the publishers will not be colluding (ahem… I mean cooperating) to put most of their websites’ content behind pay walls. At least that CEO/publisher-group ...

From STEVE OUTING, SteveOuting.com,  5 Nov 2009

Instant speech feedback: Get used to it

I’m sure this will be mainstream across many professions before long, but for now it’s mostly limited to technology and media conferences. I’m talking about how speakers now get feedback from their audience as soon as they finish talking, via tweets ...

From STEVE OUTING, SteveOuting.com,  31 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Barack Obama

The Nook: A smart bricks-&-mortar digital strategy

A new, and very large, Barnes & Noble bookstore opened here in Boulder, Colorado, recently, replacing a smaller store half a block away. I’ve wondered since construction started how the giant bookstore chain could justify a larger store when more and ...

From STEVE OUTING, SteveOuting.com,  27 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barnes & Noble, Inc.,  E-Ink,  AT&T Inc.

Real-time ads for real-time news

This is a really interesting topic, as we’re closing in on being able to match ads in real time contextually with news events as they quickly grow popular. I interview the CEO of OneRiot, a Boulder social-search company working on this model. Right now, ...

From STEVE OUTING, SteveOuting.com,  22 Oct 2009

Downie-Schudson: Who are they writing for?

Commissioned by the Journalism School at Columbia University, the 96-page report offers nothing much new to media geeks. If you follow the news industry and its travails closely, the treatise is just a handy recap of how we got into this mess ...

From STEVE OUTING, SteveOuting.com,  20 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Columbia University

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