Every time you open a publication, you are bound to stumble upon an up and coming media concept. They are small, they are uniform, they are scan tags. These small images that viewers capture, via their camera phones, are popping up everywhere! But what’s really the appeal? Scan tags come in two formats, a QR [...]
More Newspapers to Charge for Online Content
Do you still pick up the paper in the morning? Read the headlines while sipping your morning coffee? Or do you scroll through the news on your ipad or blackberry on your way into the office? Well if you’re like a lot of people these days then you probably get your news online. Once for free [...]
Um, sir, you’ll have to pay for that.
Last week brought the “announcements” that the Providence Journal thinking about possibly monetizing it’s content and that Twitter is probably going to offer a paid business account soonish that would offer analytics. A sign of the economic times or a factor of inevitability… In an interview Jonathan Fildes for BBC News, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone [...]
My Sunday Morning and the Boston Globe
Adam Here: On Sunday morning I woke up before the kids, grabbed my cup of coffee, sat at the kitchen table and read the Boston Globe section by section, folding and flipping while the tips of my fingers slowly turned gray… Wait wait wait, that isn’t exactly how it went. With mug in hand, I [...]
