My essays on digital economics and media business models, with a dash of media criticism:
Last updated July 2018
- Should Amazon replace public libraries? (July 2018)
- A conversation about “free” news (November 2016)
- Was the first 2016 presidential debate really the “most watched ever”? (September 2016)
- Skewed US media, print and TV, makes biased campaign news (March 2016)
- Facebook’s walled garden: too seductive for news companies to ignore? (March 2015)
- Who covers your state legislature? A disturbing report from Pew Research, if you care about democracy (July 2014)
- Upworthy headlines and copycats: just say no. Please. (February 2014)
- Make it stop! End click-bait headlines now (January 2014)
- Digital business models: a retrospective and maybe a class or keynote (January 2014)
- “Trust me” journalism, TIME style (January 2014)
- Future of news in an increasingly connected world (April 2013)
- Newspaper ad revenue down another 6% in 2012, but Google is not the reason (Apr 2013)
- Seattle Times to erect paywall (Feb 2013)
- How Buzzfeed infringes on copyright and TOS (Feb 2013)
- Beating a dead horse: another post about newspaper economics (June 2012)
- Carnival of Journalism: journalists as capitalists (Jan 2012)
- Pew Report: Search Still Drives News Traffic But Sharing Is Important (May 2011)
- Online revenue cannot rescue newspaper business model (Feb 2011)
- WSJ iPad pricing model is bad news (Mar 2010)
- Mythbusters: Subscriptions Don’t Cover Salaries (Mar 2010)
- Why the iPad (and kin) is unlikely to yield consumer savings (Feb 2010)
- Digital Information: Business Models in Flux (Jan 2010)
- Repeat after me: Newspaper consumers have never paid for content (Jan 2010)
- Putting numbers into context: a Hollywood primer (Dec 2009)
- Publishing Industry Responds to Digital Disruption by Delaying eBook Availability (Dec 2009)
- Murdoch on Google and pay-to-view (Nov 2009)
- Thinking about “free” (Oct 2009)
- “Aggregation” is not a villain (June 2009)
- Digital goods are non-rival: why is this concept so foreign to people? (May 2009)
- Future of journalism discussions need reality economics (May 2009)
- Response to “Ink-Stained Wretching” (Mar 2009)
- Follow up: No more free content (Mar 2009)
- No more free content (Mar 2009)
- Print model shifting (Nov 2008)
- Want to increase online news readership? (Oct 2008)
- Google, Others, Syndicating Video Into The Long Tail (Jul 2008)
- Book revision: Wikinomics (Jul 2008)
- The Long Tail, HBR Style (June 2008)
- Publishers Experiment With Online Editions (Feb 2008)
- Proposed internet radio license fees dwarf terrestrial radio (Apr 2007)
- Economics of scarcity (Nov 2006)
- Citizen journalism site gets $11 million investment (Feb 2006)
- It’s a la carte by any other name (Dec 2003)