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A Scoop with Scale: WikiLeaks
The Wikileaks Afghanistan archive is pretty much a shoe-in for the biggest scoop of all time. Biggest in terms of volume. It’s Internet big — 92,000 items and 200,000 pages. Call it a “scoop with scale.” I find the dominant meme from commentators that “there’s nothing new here” interesting. From a simple political standpoint, this [...]
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Pay Walls: Pay for What Exactly?
What’s missing in the pay wall campaign is just a smidge of a consumer benefit — something that makes acquiring content easier, or simpler or cooler or just plain more convenient for users than the way they acquire content today. Paywalls are supply-side constructs. The repeated justification for paywalls is, “someone has to pay for [...]
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Content bundles
Media properties are bundles of content. Albums, TV networks, magazines, newspapers — they’re all bundles content (and often ads). These bundles have been justified by the physical limitations of their medium such as paper, time based scheduling and CD storage space. In the digital era, advances in access, particularly search, destroy the logic of these [...]
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