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BBC - BBC Internet Blog: Project canvas: an interview with Richard Halton

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:13:52 +0000

How many BBC people are working on Canvas?
At the moment it's a bit of a labour of love. There are a lot of people from the BBC, Channel 5 and BT giving up some of their time, but until we have a venture post-approval from the Trust, it's a virtual team. A team from Kingswood's R&D department is looking at IPTV and a lot of what we're doing is piggybacking on their good thinking.

So what exactly is newspaper web ‘premium’ content? Please tell me: SteveOuting.com

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:59:59 +0000

Rafat Live: Our Founder Talks About Entrepreneurship And The News Business | paidContent

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:56:34 +0000

Worth listening to

Roy Greenslade: Guardian has not talked to Murdoch about paywalls | Media | guardian.co.uk

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:35:01 +0000

Note that they only deny talking to News Corp, not that they are building a pay-wall

Murdoch’s Attack Dog Snarls At the ‘Parasites’ | paidContent:UK

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:19:41 +0000

In an e-mail to the Observer, the Huffington Post’s founder, Arianna Huffington, characterised News Corp.‘s attacks as a throwback to a bygone era and scoffed at Thomson’s assault on Google: “While promiscuity is not good in relationships, it’s great for those looking for news and information. Trying to deny news consumers as wide a range of options and viewpoints as possible seems shortsighted and ultimately self-defeating.

On Demand Media: How to charge for online content

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:14:45 +0000

On Demand Media: Are pay-walls anti-competitive?

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:14:10 +0000

On Demand Media: Aggregator bites publisher

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:13:55 +0000

soundbitten

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:36:21 +0000

And maybe if I had caught in a particularly expansive mood, I figured he might brazenly exclaim that while Reuters is charging its MSM brethren thousands of dollars a month to license its content, it’s paying him, the anti-MSM upstart, for editorial links he places on his two news portals, Breitbart.com and Breitbart.TV, and even on the Drudge Report.

In the early days of Breitbart.com, Breitbart licensed content from the Associated Press and Reuters, as this archived page shows. But according to documents generated in a 2005 legal dispute between Breitbart and two other parties, Reuters terminated its contract with Breitbart.com in late September.

In October 2005, however, Reuters approached Breitbart with the kind of offer that generally occurs only in the less believable tales in Penthouse Forum or when a Nigerian vicar is planning to rip you off. To wit, Reuters wanted to pay Breitbart “a fee for traffic to driven to Reuters [sic] own website.”

Typically, newspaper sites pay newswires to license their content, and that’s what Breitbart was doing until Reuters cancelled its original contract with him. Now, it wanted to switch things up.

Murdoch's plan for web pay walls 'raises questions of anti-trust law' | Media | guardian.co.uk

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:04:05 +0000

When Murdoch announced that he intended to introduce charges for access to all his news websites, he said that he believed other publishers would follow suit. Davis said that a pattern of such statements, in effect a signal to rivals to do the same, can be interpreted as a "tacit cartel", even if no meeting or explicit deal has taken place.

Post Tech - The Underestimated Mignon Clyburn

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:18:14 +0000

She received dozens of hateful messages from “a wide brush” of people concerned with the telecom policy, many questioning her competence. She received “borderline soft threats” by some people whom she declined to identify, “trying to imply a particular direction would wreak havoc of all kinds back at home and here.”

FT.com / Brussels - Internet access ‘right’ plan dropped

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:32:59 +0000

The American Spectator : Showdown Alarms

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:23:05 +0000

But White House sources say that she ran afoul of senior White House economics adviser Larry Summers, who claimed he and other senior Obama officials were unaware of how radical the draft Net Neutrality regulations were when they were initially internally circulated to Obama administration officials several weeks ago. "All of sudden Larry is getting calls from CEOs, Wall Street folks he talks to, Republicans and Democrats, asking him what the Administration is doing with the policies, and he isn't sure what they're talking about," says one White House aide. "He felt blind-sided, and Susan was one of those people who heard about it." In the end, the proposed regulations were slightly moderated from the original language FCC chairman Julius Genachowski, a Crawford ally, circulated.

NewsNow.co.uk hits back in battle with UK newspapers | Media | guardian.co.uk

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:47:43 +0000

"We deliver you traffic and drive you revenues you otherwise wouldn't have received," the open latter states. "The idea that we are undermining your businesses is incorrect. It is fanciful to imagine that, if it weren't for link aggregators, you would have more traffic or revenues. We provide a service that you do not: a means for readers to find your content more readily, via continuously updating links to a diversity of websites."

Content and Its Discontents | Public Knowledge

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:29:27 +0000

Reflections of a Newsosaur: Pay walls never may come at some papers

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:25:20 +0000

The resolve to charge for most interactive content is dissolving at some newspapers, potentially thwarting the plans of other publishers who still hope to erect pay walls on their sites.

If the Washington Post continues to freely give away its political and international coverage, can the New York Times get away with charging for essentially the same content?

A New Financial Model For News, Straight From The Cable Industry | paidContent

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:46:42 +0000

Ken Auletta - I Want Media

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:47:59 +0000

Auletta: Google co-founder Larry Page and CEO Eric Schmidt told me that they had discussed buying the New York Times, but in the end decided that if they succeeded it would sabotage their identity as a neutral search engine. The reason they are interested in preserving the New York Times is that Google's search engine depends on good information, and the Times is the world's best newspaper.

‘Paywall Is Not A Panacea’; Publishers Seek More Nuanced Alternative | paidContent:UK

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:48:22 +0000

Cinema Now movies-on-demand service to be built into Best Buy’s web-connected gadgets | VentureBeat

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:31:59 +0000

Under the multi-year deal, Best Buy is licensing the CinemaNow service so that it is preinstalled in devices sold in its stores.

22,000 Hollywood-approved movies in the library, but most of the new ones are first-run movies that appear on CinemaNow at the same time they come out on DVD