Yesterday’s News Works Harder

Chris Anderson is inter­viewed in this week’s Press Gazette. Lots of inter­esting ideas, and not all about the Long Tail. I picked out the fol­lowing remarks as key:

On the internet, stories increase in value over time, rather than dis­ap­pearing, the way they do in printed news­pa­pers and magazines:

In a weird way, [the internet] com­pletely inverts

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The Click Fraud Myth

People are upset about Click Fraud. But I think advert­isers have never had it better. What is Click Fraud? Wikipedia to the rescue:

Click fraud occurs in pay per click [PPC] online advert­ising when a person, auto­mated script, or computer program imitates a legit­imate user of a web browser clicking on an ad, for the purpose

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No, you show me the money

So how do you make any money from this Web 2.0 business? Ajit Jaokar has written an inter­esting post on Web 2.0 revenue models. He argues that charging premium fees to a select group of users dis­qual­i­fies sites from being Web 2.0, since the project depends upon mon­et­ising the “long tail”. Similarly, a charged-​​​​for

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