Valuing Content: Nine Inch Nails

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

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Valuing Content: Dragon Age

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

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The Value of Content in a Stream

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

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Age of Social Network Users

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.

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Book Review: Blogging to Drive Business

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

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My WordPress Plugin List

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

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