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I’ve been blogging a lot, but evidently not here. Instead, I’ve been writing for a wage at Nokia Conversations. That’s a far better arrangement for me in almost every respect, but has left things rather dusty over here on twopointouch. So, one of the things I write is a bit of a rant for the weekly newsletter. You  It used to contain my test of the Guardian news feed WordPress plugin. De-activating the plugin disables all the articles connected to it, as shown here, changes the title of your post, removes the tags, all the content (not just the feed content, but whatever you had to say about it, too) and the Reports from the media measurement company Nielsen have dropped one of the features with which the company is arguably most associated: the idea of a television ‘channel’. I read two blog posts this morning that seemed to be crying-out to be connected together. So all credit to their authors, and a tiny bit to me for the meeting. The first was by Jamie Madigan, who writes the terrific Psychology of Video Games blog, looking into the reasons people do (or 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 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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