By Ian, on February 23rd, 2010 Finding this video so quickly after yesterday’s post proves something. More on making money from media content, even though people can get it for free. Mike Masnick of Techdirt describes the ways Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails have created a profitable business from their music, after they sacked their record Continue reading Valuing Content: Nine Inch Nails By Ian, on February 22nd, 2010 I wrote yesterday about the difficulties of selling media content when people can get something more-or-less identical without paying. It looked a bit bleak. In this – more positive – post, I’m going to look at some of the ways media owners might persuade people to pay for their content, focusing on the Continue reading Valuing Content: Dragon Age By Ian, on February 21st, 2010 Like many of you, I expect, I watched the latest instalment of the BBC’s Virtual Revolution on Saturday. The theme this week was the ways in which the Web is changing the ways we think. As has often been observed, people who use the Web on a regular basis are more apt to skim, read fewer sources Continue reading The Value of Content in a Stream By Ian, on February 19th, 2010 New data from Pingdom on the age of social network users confirms the rumours. They are mostly quite old, or they lie a lot about their age.
Continue reading Age of Social Network Users By Ian, on February 18th, 2010 Many thanks to Pearson Education for sending me two recent books about blogging for review. The first of these is Blogging to Drive Business by Eric Butow and Rebecca Bollwitt. It seems that Eric has written the more business and strategy-centric chapters, and Rebecca the more practical information about Continue reading Book Review: Blogging to Drive Business By Ian, on February 17th, 2010 I claim no expertise, but I have tried and tested a lot of WordPress plugins on this blog and the following remain on my ‘essential / must-install’ list. I have provided links to each of the plugins, so you can find out more. But if you want to try them on your own site, it is far better Continue reading My WordPress Plugin List | About this BlogSocial tools, devices and web evolution are creating epochal change in media, society and business. The plan is to hide under the floorboards till it’s all over document some of the interesting parts of that change. More…. |
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