Mashable: Top 7 Places to watch great minds in action. Good to see TED (talks) on the list.
Louis Gray: Locking customers to your product? It’s probably not good then. On point.
Tech Dirt: Surprised to see this back in the news? Not really. Grandstanding anti-Craigslist politicians still not satisfied.
News Futurist: Interesting post. AP has no place [...]
Forrester: Josh Bernoff and Forrester, Groundswell Awards — I love the diversity.
Wired: AP doesn’t know its protection tech doesn’t protect.
Financial Times: Apple joins forces with record labels. The title is a bit sensational but an interesting approach in the age of digital music.
Conversation Agent: Listening, for a change.
Nieman Lab: The Times should focus on niches, [...]
Supernova Hub: Clay Shirky, Andrew Keen and the real time web.
Paid Content: New Yok Times introduces self-serve ads for hyperlocal sites.
Read Write Web: This message will self-destruct. New tool makes online postings disappear. Not quite a global recall service, but close.
BBC Digital Revolution: Liberty, wikipedia and a voice for all. A good perspective piece on [...]
Financial Times editor Lionel Barber predicts that most news websites will charge within a year. During a Media Standards Trust event at the British Academy last night Barber stated:
“But I confidently predict that within the next 12 months, almost all news organizations will be charging for content.”
Faced with growing financial challenges most if not all [...]
Mashable: would you pay to read The New York Times online?
O’Reilly Radar: Open Gov is a dialogue, not a monologue. O’Reilly’s coverage of ‘Gov 2.0′ is phenomenal.
Adweek: Interesting report from Adweek/Nielsen Co. about consumers and online opinions.
Ars Technica: Has the RIAA sued 18,000 people… or 35,000?
Mashable: In reference to Jennifer Preston, Social-Media Editor of [...]
Why Comments Matter
by Ben Taylor on July 29, 2009 · Comments in Editorial Tagged as: AVC • Boston Globe • comments • Disqus • Douglas Bailey • Fred Wilson • New York Times • online discussion • Paul Krugman
Recently Douglas Bailey, President of DBMediaStrategies, published an opinion piece on Boston.com (Boston Globe) titled “Got a comment? Keep it to yourself” suggesting we abandon comment forums at the end of articles on newspaper websites. I encourage you to read the full article and judge for yourself. Frankly, it was a challenge for me to [...]
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