As you may have seen for yourselves, media’s ‘new e-business’ aspirations have caused quite a stir. I have ToingToing!ed about it here and The Financial Times Online offers a decent detailed assessment of the situation, both pieces are offered for free, I hasten to add. Advertising does not bring in the money anymore (did anyone [...]
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To Whom the Turnstile Spins?
Posted: by Rudy Nadler-Nir in Anthrodigital, Archetypes, Learning from others, Narratives, TheoriesTags: Apple iTune, Aspen Institute, Coldplay, consumption-biased content, content Providers, Darren Libonati, digital coins, digital wallet, electronic turnstile, further spending, hyperactive traffic makers, impulse purchases, infobites, Las Vegas Events, Max Bialystock, micropayment, mobile accessibility, new e-business, News Corporation, occasional content seekers, online bit-by-bit communication, opinionator blog, premium publications, Rupert Murdoch, Sponsored turnstiles, The Business Dictionary Online, The Children of Darfur, The New Your Times, Time, turnstile spin, turnstile spinners, Vegas Sam Boyd Stadium, virtual money, Wall Street Journals, Walter Isaacson, WSJ
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Collateral damage on the road to digeracy
Posted: by Rudy Nadler-Nir in Anthrodigital, Archetypes, NarrativesTags: Bill Machrone, John C. Dvorak, Kindle, Michael J. Miller, PC Magazine, PCM, PCMag Digital Network, Personal Computer, telephone-directory industry, WAN, World Association of Newspapers, WSJ, Yellow-Pages
Back in the early 1980s, PC Magazine was a welcome arrival at one’s snailmail box. It carried voices of authority on that new animal, the Personal Computer. The voices were knowledgeable without pontificating, expert-like, but never condescending. PCM’s authority came from people like Bill Machrone , the magazine’s mythological editor cum publisher, John C. Dvorak, [...]