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Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kaplan

Free As In Business Model?

A review of Free: The Future Of A Radical Price by Chris Anderson.
Chris Anderson is Editor-in-Chief of the US edition of Wired magazine, a post he has held since 2001, and is also author of 2006 best-seller The Long Tail: How Endless Choice Is Creating Unlimited Demand.
His latest foray into the lucrative non-fiction business book [...]

Google CEO Eric Schmidt on Newspapers and Journalism

Very interesting in-depth interview with Eric Schmidt by Danny Sullivan.

Jeff Jarvis on What Would Google Do? and Journalism 2.0

Is this man gloating too much about the death of print or simply too quick to announce the end of industrial capitalism?

Useful interview. Shame about the lousy video player interface design (it’s ten minutes long and no, you can’t control the playhead).

New Business Models for News

Very entertaining video of a speech by veteran tech journalist and broadcaster Leo Laporte, creator of This Week in Tech and its podcast network, to the Online News Association focussed on business models for new media companies.
Synopsis: they need to be targeted at precisely-defined and highly-engaged niche audiences rather than large, loosely-determined, often indifferent mass [...]

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Martin Redfern filters out the hype around distributed media to relay clear signals without the noise.

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Big head, small body but still a long, thin tail [The Economist]