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What data can and cannot do | News | guardian.co.uk
What data can and cannot do
Jonathan Gray argues that aspiring data journalists and civic data hackers should strive to cut back on data-driven hype and to cultivate a more critical literacy towards their subject matter
data  publishing 
4 hours ago by mediaeater
The New York Times’s Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and the Demise of Janet Robinson -- New York Magazine
A New York Times Whodunit
Who slew Times CEO Janet Robinson? Was it Arthur Sulzberger’s new lady friend? The advertising market? The frustrated web guru? Or the ambitious Sulzberger cousin?
publishing  nytimes  corporateculture 
4 days ago by mediaeater
Don’t Cry for the Publishers (though you are free to shake your head) » Arjun Basu
the publishing industry "watched everything that happened to the music industry and they learned almost nothing"
disintermediation  publishing  from twitter_favs
february 2012 by mediaeater
Enhanced E-Books: Blowing Up the Book - WSJ.com
Enhanced E-Books: Blowing Up the Book WSJ (new crop of digital books ...Is this the future of ?)
publishing  book  from twitter
january 2012 by mediaeater
mark ghuneim - Google Search
Current art books I have published;
Current books I am in (partial)
book  mediaeater  art  publishing  from twitter
january 2012 by mediaeater
The Innovation Issue | Think Quarterly by Google
In 2003, a total of five exabytes of data existed. Now we generate that every two days. We are, literally, more creative than ever.

Where to begin? Right here. We've curated big ideas from heads of industry, leading experts and our homegrown visionaries -- all to help guide your own thinking. In our inaugural US issue, we focus on Innovation. Where can you break molds and shape the future? We hope this gives you inspiration, insight, and some new ideas of your own.
google  publishing 
july 2011 by mediaeater
Forbes.com - Magazine Article
also wonder if we aren't better off redeploying our newsroom resources to create new revenue streams and more engaging digital platforms than trying to make the traditional Web experience better and charge for it. And, I think we ought to create a drawbridge around our content--not necessarily for readers but for the aggregators. A business model that insists a Yahoo or a Huffington Post uses your content through some form of syndication, giving them trusted content and giving big media an opportunity to share the upside of their more engaging offerings.
pricing  media  publishing 
june 2011 by mediaeater
www.springerlink.com/content/e6j730v9p4717098/fulltext.pdf
Listen to the Music: Lessons for Publishers
from Record Labels’ Digital Debut Decade
musicindustry  historic  publishing  filetype:pdf  media:document 
june 2011 by mediaeater
Twitter as media: What happens when anyone can publish? — Tech News and Analysis
As Mallary Jean Tenore and Kelly McBride note in a piece at the Poynter Institute website, this kind of real-time reporting by someone involved in a potential news story can make things very complicated for the mainstream media. Should newspapers and wire services have used the woman’s name? Typically, those kinds of details aren’t released by the police and other agencies involved in a sex crime — but what if the victims release names themselves? The woman in this case has said several times on Twitter that she had no real expectation of privacy when she posted the messages, nor did she mind people writing about it (although she did ask later that the Poynter piece not use her full name).

Using Twitter during such a sensitive personal incident may look like just another example of social-media “oversharing,” but the victim said she specifically decided to continue talking about her rape despite ...
publishing  identity  news  media  rapidresponse 
june 2011 by mediaeater
Authorship markup and web search - Inside Search
Today we're beginning to support authorship markup -- a way to connect authors with their content on the web. We are experimenting with using this data to help people find content from great authors in our search results.

We now support markup that enables websites to publicly link within their site from content to author pages. For example, if an author at The New York Times has written dozens of articles, using this markup, the webmaster can connect these articles with a New York Times author page. An author page describes and identifies the author, and can include things like the author’s bio, photo, articles and other links.
html  metadata  author  content  ip  publishing 
june 2011 by mediaeater
Book publishers in denial on Amazon's e-book sales - Fortune Tech
Well, there was a time when paperbacks surpassed hardcovers. And when television overcame radio," reasons Catherine Tice, associate publisher of the New York Review of Books magazine. "There will also be a time when iPad sales surpass Kindle sales. Shifts will continue."
That makes sense, but what about a time when consumers follow the lead of their e-books and go digital, leading Amazon to cause the extinction of brick-and-mortar bookstores? Will that time come, and are bookstore owners worried?
publishing  book  media 
may 2011 by mediaeater
How many imprints does Amazon run? - O'Reilly Radar
Jeff Belle, vice president of Amazon Publishing, who said "the online retailer will eventually publish books in other genres, including thrillers, mysteries and science fiction."

In a post for the Guardian, Alison Flood noted a growing wariness in the publishing industry:

Publishers, however, will be eying the retailer's [Amazon's] increased publishing presence uneasily. "Publishers will be concerned Amazon is increasingly encroaching on what they see as 'their' business," said [Graeme Neill, editor at The Bookseller].

Taking a look at Amazon's other three imprints makes traditional publishers' unease understandable. Amazon launched its AmazonEncore imprint in May 2009. The press release described it:
publishing  books  amazon 
may 2011 by mediaeater
Real time, All the time: Why every news organisation has to be live « Emily Bell(wether)
For those who want to write or produce at length and in isolation from the real-time web, then this will continue, magazines, documentaries, books and films will continue to have a life independent of ‘the stream’.And there is at the moment  value in this resource intensive research and longer form journalism. It is a kind of slow journalism which underwrites the real time events. However, in terms of how to connect it to the real world and find audiences, it needs integrating more rigorously into this new world which transcends schedules or institutions.
real-time  media  news  publishing 
may 2011 by mediaeater
Case 1:05-cv-08136-DC Document 720 Filed 09/18/2009 Page 1 of 32
econd, the end result should be a marketplace in which consumers can be assured that
they are paying competitive prices for the benefit they receive – in a marketplace in which they
have multiple outlets from which to obtain access to works. The benefits of this settlement
should not be achieved through unjustified restrictions on competition.
Third, the structural safeguards of Rule 23 must be satisfied to ensure that the rights of
absent class members are fully protected. This Court should engage in a careful and searching
examination of the Proposed Settlement and any revised version that may be submitted.
The United States recognizes that the only question before the Court is whether to approve
or disapprove the Proposed Settlement. Given the parties’ express commitment to ongoing
government  book  copyright  publishing  fairuse  orphanworks  filetype:pdf  media:document 
march 2011 by mediaeater
Marcelo Does Milan - New York Times Style Magazine Film on Vimeo
Two impressive short films from non-traditional sources CNN- SXSW short NYTimes- Style
film  publishing  style 
march 2011 by mediaeater
A Vaster Wasteland - Magazine - The Atlantic
strengthen editorial independence in news and information.
twitter  publishing  TV2011 
march 2011 by mediaeater
Kicker Studio: The Behavior of Magazines
"[with] Digital magazines … I should be able to do all those things I do with my current magazines, only better, faster, and with way more ease. … instantly tag, share/email, bookmark, rip out and organize my tear sheets … look only at the things I’ve saved, regardless of their source. … magazines are appealing because they are curated. The fact that the reader can rely on a trusted advisor (read: editor) to compile and deliver information on a given topic is a relief. They don’t have to go out and gather the sources, someone else did. Also, they like to see content presented in an orchestrated order. This method of delivery is innately satisfying. Additionally, readers appreciate that the content is not going to change from when they first sit down to read the magazine til they finally finish with it. The fact that in our rapidly-moving society something stays inert is reassuring and comfortable. People rely on magazines as an opportunity to tune out, as Bonnier calls it “Quiet mode.”
magazines  publishing  sharing 
february 2011 by mediaeater
McSweeney’s: The Goods
The Goods is a gallimaufry of games,
puzzles, comics, and other diversions, appearing in
newspapers across the U.S. and Canada. Each week, a
cavalcade of artists and writers from the world of children’s
books will contribute amusements that will enthrall kids and most
adults. Thoughtfully conceived and visually stunning, every issue of The
Goods will deliver a new collection of recurring features and new work.

(Technical note to newspaper editors: The Goods is a paginated feature that can
run as a half page in broadsheet newspapers, or as a full page in tabloid-sized papers.)
publishing  satire  games  mcsweeneys 
february 2011 by mediaeater
Google One Pass
New revenue stream
Purchase-once, view-anywhere functionality
Ability to give access to existing subscribers
Lightweight technology implementation
Business model flexibility (e.g., subscriptions, day passes, metered access, pay-per-article, multi-issue packages)

By providing a system for user authentication, payment processing, and administration, Google One Pass lets publishers focus on creating high quality content for their readers. Publishers have flexibility over payment models and control over the digital content for which they charge and the content that is free for consumers.
shopping  paymentsystems  payment  google  dealterm  publishing  authentication 
february 2011 by mediaeater
About The Domino Project
We are reinventing what it means to be a publisher, and along the way, spreading ideas that we’re proud to spread. Our core beliefs:

Exceptionally high quality ideas, created without regard for what bookstores and middlemen want.
Ideas packaged with cogency and urgency in mind, not a word wasted, no filler.
Permission at the heart of the model. Ideas for our readers, not more readers for our ideas.
Virality first. An idea that requires a direct sale won’t thrive in a world where the most powerful ideas spread from hand to hand. Create content that works best when spread, and then package it so it’s easy to spread.
Reward the sneezers who stand up and spread these ideas.
No patience for obsolete institutions. Bestseller lists are not worth compromising for.
Speed triumphs. Rapid time to market, rapid evolution, rapid response to reader feedback.
Format agnostic. Kindle, audiobook, paperback, collectible… all good.
Different products for different customers.
publishing 
february 2011 by mediaeater
Kanye West - ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’ - NYTimes.com
The video is empty provocation and clumsy art, the move of someone who, in a climate of unchecked glorification, has been given too much rope to play with.
kanyewest  musicvideo  chart  society  publishing  popculture 
january 2011 by mediaeater
What will 2011 bring for journalism? Clay Shirky predicts widespread disruptions for syndication » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism
Giving credit where credit is due will reward original work, whether scoops, hot news, or unique analysis or perspective. This will be great for readers. It may not, however, be so great for newspapers, or at least not for their revenues, because most of what shows up in a newspaper isn’t original or unique. It’s the first four grafs of something ripped off the wire and lightly re-written, a process repeated countless times a day with no new value being added to the story.

Taken to its logical conclusion, giving credit where credit is due will mean things like 11,260 or so outlets getting out of the business or re-running the same three versions of the Somali pirate story. If Reuters has the best version, why shouldn’t people just read it from Reuters?
media  publishing  syndication 
december 2010 by mediaeater
Mark Twain’s Autobiography Is Flying Off the Shelves - NYTimes.com
“We are dearly hoping we’ll get more copies in a couple of weeks,” Mr. Ingram said. “I’m sure every bookseller in the world is saying, ‘I should have been sharper, I should have thought this one through more carefully.’ 
marktwain  book  publishing  autobiography  demand 
november 2010 by mediaeater
At Sam Zell’s Tribune, Tales of a Bankrupt Culture - NYTimes.com
“The TV revolution is upon us — and the new Tribune Company is leading the resistance,” the announcement read. And judging from the job posting for “anti-establishment producer/editors,” the company has some very strong ideas about who those revolutionaries should be: “Don’t sell us on your solid newsroom experience. We don’t care. Or your exclusive, breaking news coverage. We’ll pass.”
publishing  corporateculture 
october 2010 by mediaeater
USA Today to Throw Open its Data This Month
At the moment, the developer site is open to internal developers only. However, USA Today plans to launch it to the public by end of September. The company has already announced two of its upcoming datasets: the Best Selling Books API and Sports Salaries API. USA Today provided ProgrammableWeb early access to its to API for our USA Today API profile and this post.

The Best-Selling Books API returns the weekly list of the nation’s top-selling books (1-150) as compiled by USA Today, along with several pieces of metadata like Author, Rank, History and so on. An example call to retrieve all titles by J.K.Rowling that appeared in the top 150 is given below:

/bestsellers/books/titles?author=J.K.%20Rowling&api_key=XXXXXX
The Sports Selling API gives access to the USA Today Sports Salaries database. This database called MLB, NFL, NHL and NBA and is available for multiple seasons, player, position and team data. It should help enable some interesting mashups.
api  publishing 
september 2010 by mediaeater
Welcome to The Local East Village
- The Local East Village Blog - NYTimes.com
local  publishing 
september 2010 by mediaeater
Amazon Says E-Books Now Top Hardcover Sales - NYTimes.com
Amazon.com, one of the nation’s largest booksellers, announced Monday that for the last three months, sales of books for its e-reader, the Kindle, outnumbered sales of hardcover books.

In that time, Amazon said, it sold 143 Kindle books for every 100 hardcover books, including hardcovers for which there is no Kindle edition.

The pace of change is quickening, too, Amazon said. In the last four weeks sales rose to 180 digital books for every 100 hardcover copies. Amazon has 630,000 Kindle books, a small fraction of the millions of books sold on the site.
amazon  milestone  publishing  book 
july 2010 by mediaeater
The Media Equation - Hijacking Rolling Stone’s McChrystal Article - NYTimes.com
Reached by e-mail on a plane, Jim VandeHei, executive editor and a founder of Politico, suggested that the imperatives of the news cycle superseded questions of custody. “Our reporters got the article from sources with no restrictions,” he wrote. “It was being circulated and widely discussed among insiders, and our team felt readers should see what insiders were reading and reacting to. Rolling Stone raised a reasonable objection once they posted the story, so we quickly agreed to link to their URL.”
media  publishing  law  copyright 
june 2010 by mediaeater
Google and Twitter pour cold water on "hot news"
Of course, both Google and Twitter have an interest in seeing this World War I-era doctrine go by the wayside—both companies aggregate information (albeit in slightly different ways) that comes from all over the Web. As many Twitter users remember, for example, news about Michael Jackson's death produced thousands of tweets per second disseminating the word—would a court be able to restrict regular users from talking about current events as they unfold?

And if users can talk about factual events, couldn't they also talk about the latest recommendations from Barclays and Merrill Lynch?

Duke professor and public domain booster James Boyle reminded us that newspapers might actually suffer from such a "right" if it were strictly enforced.
legal  windowing  press  media  hotnews  publishing 
june 2010 by mediaeater
Why Glee Is TV’s Most Web Video-savvy Series (and Why It Isn’t)
Yet to find the above embedded clips, I had to create them myself using Hulu, and not only are they geo-blocked but they’ll expire as soon as the episode is taken offline. Sue Sylvester’s Vogue is off Hulu entirely, and while a version does remain on the official Fox Broadcasting YouTube channel, it’s not embeddable.

The musical numbers are the best advertising possible for the show, and yet it seems like Fox makes it actively difficult for them to spread around. Music rights are a pain to clear, I get that, but this is a show based around the music — why not invest some marketing dollars in allowing people to share their favorites?

Conclusion: On the creative side, it’s clear the team producing this show knows their way around ye olde interwebs. I just wish that I could say the same about those packaging it online.
television  convergence  glee  rights  packaging  digitalmusic  publishing 
june 2010 by mediaeater
Spying on how we read « Music Machinery
Most Abandoned - the books and/or authors that are most frequently left unfinished. What book is the most abandoned book of all time? (My money is on ‘A Brief History of Time’) A related metric – for any particular book where is it most frequently abandoned? (I’ve heard of dozens of people who never got past ‘The Council of Elrond’ chapter in LOTR).
amazon  metadata  publishing  discovery 
march 2010 by mediaeater
Smartphones Helping Magazines Become Interactive - NYTimes.com
a bar-code reader — until now. With the sudden ubiquity of smartphones, which have apps that can read bar codes, and cameraphones, which can easily snap pictures of icons, magazines like Esquire and InStyle are adding interactive graphics to their articles, while Entertainment Weekly and Star are including them in ads
directresponse  marketing  advertising  mobile  magazine  barcode  publishing 
january 2010 by mediaeater
News Corp. Joins Digital Consortium - WSJ.com
News Corp. is joining a consortium of magazine companies that are working on creating a digital store and common technology and advertising standards to sell their titles on electronic readers, mobile devices and other digital devices, according to people familiar with the matter.

The new venture is likely to be announced next week, according to people familiar with its plans, though it will be longer before the project is up and running. It will be owned jointly by the five participating companies, which in addition to News Corp. are Time Warner Inc.'s Time Inc., Conde Nast Publications Inc., Hearst Corp. and Meredith Corp.
media  publishing  e-publish  distribution  consortium  news 
december 2009 by mediaeater
Too Much Joy» Blog Archive » My Hilarious Warner Bros. Royalty Statement
So I was naively excited when I opened the envelope. And my answer was right there on the first page. In five years, our three albums earned us a grand total of…

$62.47
music  musicindustry  publishing  digitalmusic  economics  royalties  wbr 
december 2009 by mediaeater
About Half in U.S. Would Pay for Online News, Study Finds - NYTimes.com
Among regular Internet users in the United States, 48 percent said in the survey, conducted in October, that they would pay to read news online, including on mobile devices. That result tied with Britain for the lowest figure among nine countries where Boston Consulting commissioned surveys. In several Western European countries, more than 60 percent said they would pay.

When asked how much they would pay, Americans averaged just $3 a month, tied with Australia for the lowest figure — and less than half the $7 average for Italians. The other countries included in the study were Germany, France, Spain, Norway and Finland
publishing  newspaper  content  pricepoint  type:study  news  media 
november 2009 by mediaeater
FT.com / Technology - Authors win Google book concession
Under the new settlement, works will only be included in the ambitious digital project if they have been registered in the US, or come from the UK, Australia and Canada – countries which have “contributed the largest number of English-language works to American libraries,” according to the parties to the settlement. The similarities in their legal systems and the structure of their publishing industries made it appropriate for these countries to be included, according to the backers of the settlement.

The changes will mean that 95 per cent of all foreign works will no longer be included in Google’s digital book archive, said Richard Sarnoff, chairman of the Association of American Publishers.
google  book  publishing  legal  fairuse  digitization 
november 2009 by mediaeater
Bruce W. Sanford and Bruce D. Brown: Google and the Copyright Wars - WSJ.com
The answer has importance far beyond the book-scanning project—it involves the very legality of how search engines operate on the Internet. If search engines cannot make full copies of books and Web sites without permission from copyright holders, their own business model would be jeopardized. When leading publishers and authors sued Google for violations of copyright, it appeared that the first serious test case was at hand.
google  copyright  fairuse  legal  lawsuit  publishing  search 
november 2009 by mediaeater
Op-Ed Contributor - A Library to Last Forever - NYTimes.com
Some have claimed that this agreement is a form of compulsory license because, as in most class action settlements, it applies to all members of the class who do not opt out by a certain date. The reality is that rights holders can at any time set pricing and access rights for their works or withdraw them from Google Books altogether. For those books whose rights holders have not yet come forward, reasonable default pricing and access policies are assumed. This allows access to the many orphan works whose owners have not yet been found and accumulates revenue for the rights holders, giving them an incentive to step forward.
google  book  oped  publishing  pricing  legal 
october 2009 by mediaeater
The Media Equation - With Tribune in Bankruptcy, a Tone-Deaf Request for Bonuses - NYTimes.com
“Without denying that many of these folks are toiling hard and diligently, the basic arguments underlying this request are laughable and beg at least one simple question,” he said. “How many of those that are being enriched by the bonuses have been contacted by headhunting firms seeking their talents? After what has happened there and what is going on in the broader economy, where are they going to go?”
corporateculture  legal  publishing  latimes  talen  people  personnel 
october 2009 by mediaeater
Media Cache - Tatler Roars Into Its 4th Century - NYTimes.com
While many magazines are digitally challenged, few seem to be less bothered about it than Tatler, a fixture on coffee tables in stockbrokers’ homes in Surrey, as well as other places around the world where old and new money mingle. A special anniversary issue, the November edition, which appears Thursday, is the biggest in the history of Tatler, at 408 pages — including 224 pages of advertising.

“I’m rather tired of all this business about the Internet,” said Patricia Stevenson, the publishing director. “Magazines are wonderful things to have with you and to take around with you. I think Tatler is going to be around for another 300 years.”
publishing  media  magazine 
october 2009 by mediaeater
pubsubhubbub - Project Hosting on Google Code
A simple, open, server-to-server web-hook-based pubsub (publish/subscribe) protocol as an extension to Atom and RSS.

Parties (servers) speaking the PubSubHubbub protocol can get near-instant notifications (via webhook callbacks) when a topic (feed URL) they're interested in is updated.

The protocol in a nutshell is as follows:
google  publishing  content  syndication  opensource  messaging  feed  protocol  atom  push 
september 2009 by mediaeater
At Condé Nast, Calls to Cut in a Culture of Spending - NYTimes.com
“I love their magazines — I think they’re pretty, I like the way they feel, and I think the reproduction is lovely,” she said. “That’s why I would hope that one of the things their consultants will not tell them is to, in any way, diminish the quality of what they’re offering, because that is something that makes those titles valuable.”
publishing  condenast  economics  business  financial  corporateculture 
september 2009 by mediaeater
FT Alphaville
Financial blog FT Alphaville is expanding its New York presence, the Financial Times announced Monday. The move is part of the London-based newspaper's plan to make the three-year-old site a global, 24-hour financial news service featuring live reports from London, New York and Tokyo.
financial  blog  publishing 
september 2009 by mediaeater
Atlantic Blogger Andrew Sullivan Makes Pitch for Supporting Print - NYTimes.com
It worked. Within two days after last Monday’s post, Mr. Sullivan’s appeal pulled in 75 percent of the subscriptions that the Web site draws in a typical month, the magazine’s publisher, Jay Lauf, said. The Atlantic expects this month’s subscription orders to be double an average month’s.
publishing  print  newspaper  subscriptions 
september 2009 by mediaeater
Newspapers Have Not Hit Bottom, Analysts Say - NYTimes.com
. The drop in combined print and digital ad revenue last year, 16.6 percent, according to the Newspaper Association of America, was the worst since the Depression. But it looks rosy next to 2009, when revenue fell 28.3 percent in the first quarter and 29 percent in the second.

In the last few days, signs of life have been seen from struggling retailers, and the Federal Reserve chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, and others have speculated that the recession has ended. Media executives, including Rupert Murdoch, have talked about advertising starting to rebound. Last week, shares in several newspaper companies, including Gannett, McClatchy and The New York Times Company, jumped 10 percent or more, to their highest prices this year.
publishing  business  statistics  disintermediation 
september 2009 by mediaeater
FT.com / Media - Google to offer hard copies of books
Through an arrangement with a printing company announced yesterday, Google will offer 2m out-of-copyright books that can be picked up or shipped from libraries, universities and other spots around the world.

It has struck the deal with On Demand Books, makers of the Espresso Book Machine, which can print a 300-page book in less than five minutes, complete with a cover and a bound edge.

The editions are likely to cost about $8, with Google keeping $1, On Demand Books keeping $1 and the retailer keeping $3. The remaining $3 should cover the cost of materials and labour.
book  publishing  google  ondemand 
september 2009 by mediaeater
'Ellen DeGeneres Show' sued over song use
According to the suit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Nashville, when representatives of the recording companies asked defendants why they hadn't obtained licenses to use the songs, defendants said they didn't "roll that way."
music  licensing  publishing  lawsuit 
september 2009 by mediaeater
Data API: Developer's Guide, Protocol - Google Book Search APIs - Google Code
The Google Book Search Data API allows client applications to view and update Book Search content in the form of Google Data API feeds. Your client application can use the Book Search Data API to issue full-text searches for books and to retrieve standard book information, ratings, and reviews. You can also access individual users' library collections and public reviews. Finally, your application can submit authenticated requests to enable users to create and modify library collections, ratings, labels, reviews, and other account-specific entities. In addition to providing some background on the capabilities of the Book Search Data API, this document provides examples of basic Data API interactions using raw XML and HTTP. After reading this document, you may want to learn more about interacting with the API using our client libraries by reading the programming-language-specific sections of this developer's guide.
google  api  book  publishing 
september 2009 by mediaeater
Mediaeater Publishing Feeds (RSS Collection)
A collection of the public feeds that I publish.

(click on the RSS icon to subscribe to individual feeds)
mediaeater  media  information  feed  rss  syndication  knowledge  publishing  writing 
august 2009 by mediaeater
Spirits Dancing
What we broadcast online is also subject to our normal subconscious forgetting: we forget a lot of what we put online over time, and we can assume our readers forget what we have done too, if its not particularly important. We can also be activate in forgetting, in the sense that the web is fluid and we can revise, update and delete, as long as we have control over our own data. On the static web, outdated versions of pages slip away easily. Doc Searls recently made the point in Because advertising encourages Altzheimer’s that traditional search could, but doesn’t, favour archiving of the sort that enables delving into past versions of what has been online, because it is geared towards advertising not research. On the live web, Scott Rosenberg points out that blogs are potent because they are good at both modes of flow and past, in updates and archives. These are both in our control.-
liveweb  life  sociology  personalinfocloud  publishing  socialweb 
august 2009 by mediaeater
tr.im URLs
Community-Owned and Operated On or before September 15, 2009, Nambu, tr.im and I will complete the following: 1. We will renounce all ownership interest in the tr.im domain name and donate it to the community. We will work out the legalities of this over the coming weeks, but it will ensure no one is ever able to hijack tr.im URLs in the future. They will always exist, period. Everyone can use tr.im with confidence. 2. We will release the source code used to implement tr.im for anyone to use, help develop, or privately extend as they like. We will release it under the MIT open-source license. It is our sincere hope that every URL shortener becomes as good or better than tr.im, or can learn from our architecture and feature set.
opensource  publicdomain  publishing  uri  url  links  metrics  sampling 
august 2009 by mediaeater
Op-Ed Contributor - Radio Free America - NYTimes.com
My father, Frank Sinatra, and singers like Tony Bennett, Bing Crosby and Perry Como fought for years for performance royalties from radio stations, arguing it was unfair that performers are not paid and citing cases like Helen Forrest that show the harsh side of this injustice. Helen was one of the most gifted singers of the 1940s. Known as the “Voice of the Name Bands,” she had hits like “I Cried for You” and “I Had the Craziest Dream.” Sadly, Helen spent her last years practically destitute because she received nothing when her songs were played on the radio. This fight isn’t just about featured artists. There are thousands of background singers and session musicians who deserve to be paid for their work, too.
radio  publishing  royalties  music  songs 
august 2009 by mediaeater
Amazon Faces a Fight Over Its E-Books - NYTimes.com
D.R.M. has created a new dynamic between consumers and the vendors of digital media like books and movies. People do not so much own, but rent this media. And the rental agreement can be breached by the manufacturer at any time, sometime with little or no notice. People are also worried that the very architecture of network-connected devices like the Kindle, TiVo or iPod give tech companies unprecedented control over digital media and by extension, the free exchange of idea
interoperability  drm  publishing 
july 2009 by mediaeater
Protecting AP's Intellectual Property | The Associated Press
As the world's largest news and information agency, The Associated Press invests hundreds of millions of dollars every year in its newsgathering operation. AP journalists must be present whenever and wherever news occurs, at great cost to AP and sometimes at great risk to themselves. Protecting their work from misuse and illegal use, therefore, is of primary importance. AP is a leader in protecting intellectual property rights through monitoring, licensing and enforcement efforts.
ap  press  media  drm  copyright  publishing  news 
july 2009 by mediaeater
eBooks: Bestsellers, free eBooks, eReader - Barnes & Noble
—The e-book does’t work with Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Kindle and Sony Reader. They will adding more devices for support in the next month.
—Currently e-books are excluded from its usual B&N loyalty program, but will consider it.
—Plastic Logic: the deal is only about an e-book store from BN. No comment on whether BN will have a distribution deal with the company.
—The 700K books number includes the Google open-domain books.
—Won’t allow printing of the e-books, but that’s because of industry wide copyright requirements rather than a BN issue.
—The book format: the industry standard is ePub, and that’s what they will support.
—Focused on the U.S. market. Nothing on international yet.
e-books  e-commerce  publishing 
july 2009 by mediaeater
Financial Times editor says most news websites will charge within a year
Barber said last night that the Financial Times had pioneered the concept of a "frequency model", giving access to a limited number of articles on the web before asking users to subscribe.

"We are seeing sustained and growing revenue as a result of our strategy of premium pricing for quality, niche global content – crucial at a time of weakening advertising," he added.

"Many news organisations are following suit in charging, latterly the New York Times which had previously come down in favour of free access to its own content."

The Financial Times website, FT.com, has more than 1.3 million non-paying registered users worldwide, with another 110,000 paying subscribers.
publishing  print  newspaper  economics  business  strategy  monetization  media  subscriptions 
july 2009 by mediaeater
KKR, Bertelsmann plan music venture
A deal would mark the latest in a string of investments made by pension funds and private equity firms into high profile music assets. Investors are attracted by catalogs of published songs that provide steady, recurring cash flows.

Reports of a deal were earlier published in the German press, which speculated that such a venture could look for acquisition targets such as EMI Group's music publishing assets. EMI is owned by British private equity firm Terra Firma.

A source familiar with the matter said on Tuesday that KKR would invest 50 million euros to finance near-term growth and would commit to invest an additional 200 million euros over the next five years to finance possible acquisitions.
musicindustry  publishing  strategy  bertelsmann  business  kkr 
july 2009 by mediaeater
A big week for copyrights and piracy | Technology | Los Angeles Times
ASCAP, BMI and SESAC offer blanket licenses for performance rights, giving services a three-stop solution on that front. But there's no similar group or groups for mechanical licenses despite the fact that Section 115 of the Copyright Act compels publishers to provide such licenses upon request. The NMPA is the largest collection of publishers, with more than 700 members representing tens of thousands of songwriters. But thousands of others aren't affiliated, which presents an enormous logistical problem for companies such as Napster, RealNetworks and Microsoft that want to offer comprehensive libraries of music. Making matters worse, there's no central registry of copyright holders. "The problem is, the law is made for aggressive outliers," complained Jonathan Potter, executive director of DiMA. Referring to MCS, he added, "These guys are copyright trolls."
copyright  music  publishing  licensing  musicindustry 
july 2009 by mediaeater
Seth's Blog: Malcolm is wrong
In a world of free, everyone can play.

This is huge. When there are thousands of people writing about something, many will be willing to do it for free (like poets) and some of them might even be really good (like some poets). There is no poetry shortage.

The reason that we needed paid contributors before was that there was only economic room for a few magazines, a few TV channels, a few pottery stores, a few of everything. In world where there is room for anyone to present their work, anyone will present their work. Editors become ever more powerful and valued, while the need for attention grows so acute that free may even be considered expensive.

Of course, it's ironic that sometimes people pay money for my books (I view them as souvenirs of content you could get less conveniently and less organized for free online if you chose to). And it's ironic that I read Malcolm's review for free. And ironic that you can read Chris's arguments the most cogently by paying for them.
business  marketing  publishing  economics  free  attention 
july 2009 by mediaeater
Reporter's Escape From Taliban Spurs Ethics Debate : NPR
Kelly McBride, who teaches ethics to journalists at the Poynter Institute, says she was "really astounded" by the media blackout. "I find it a little disturbing, because it makes me wonder what else 40 international news organizations have agreed not to tell the public," she tells NPR's Melissa Block. McBride says the blackout could hurt the credibility of news organizations. "I don't think we do ourselves any favors long term for our credibility when we have a total news blackout on something that's clearly of interest to the public," she says.
privacy  journalism  ethics  standardsandpractices  publishing  nytimes 
june 2009 by mediaeater
Letter From Europe - Is Free News Really Worth the Price? - NYTimes.com
As the Twitter revolution has shown, the ascendancy of new methods of spreading the news — a kind of digital, high-speed word-of-mouth — reinforces the need for assembling it, sifting it and trying to make sense of it. Honest news is essential to ensuring that people know what their soldiers are doing in Iraq or Afghanistan as much as what their politicians are doing in their boudoirs or how they are composing their expense accounts. At its best, news bypasses spin to let readers know who is really winning on the far-flung killing fields of Pakistan or Gaza, just as it did in Vietnam. We lose all that at our peril. While business managers ponder when, exactly, digital news will overtake printed news as a money earner, those who champion good journalism must insist that their message is not sacrificed on the altar of a changing medium.
publishing  business  free  media  newspaper 
june 2009 by mediaeater
MediaPost Publications Horror Story: Court Says King Book Promotion May Be Illegal 06/22/2009
riday, the 9th Circuit ruled against the book publisher on both points. "Reviewing this issue, we hold that a text message is a "call" within the meaning of the [Telephone Consumer Protection Act]," the court said. The appellate court also found that Satterfield had only agreed to receive ads from Nextone brands, and not Simon & Schuster. "The message was a product of Simon & Schuster, not Nextones," the court wrote. "Nextones's only role in this case was simply supplying the numbers."

Friday's decision reversed a 2007 trial court ruling that ended the case in favor of Simon & Schuster and ipsh! But the decision also left open the possibility that the marketer could still prevail in the matter. The appellate court remanded the case back to the trial court for further hearings to determine whether the equipment used to send the text messages should be considered an automated telephone dialing system.
mobile  marketing  sms  spam  legal  book  publishing  mobile-advertising 
june 2009 by mediaeater
Word for Word - A. J. Liebling - Surviving Without Newspapers - NYTimes.com
What about a business model? The two-cent Daily News would particularly benefit, Liebling argued. Let the members of the public kick in with their two or five cents for their favorite daily paper on days when the paper does not appear. If it is worth a nickel to read The Sun, it is certainly worth a nickel not to. In fact, it is a bargain. There may be some interesting changes in circulation figures, because it is worth just as much not to read The News as it is not to read any of the five-cent papers. The already vast circulation of The News would grow vaster.
publishing  newspaper 
june 2009 by mediaeater
Poised to Sell E-Books, Google Takes On Amazon - NYTimes.com
In discussions with publishers at the annual BookExpo convention in New York over the weekend, Google signaled its intent to introduce a program by that would enable publishers to sell digital versions of their newest books direct to consumers through Google. The move would pit Google against Amazon.com, which is seeking to control the e-book market with the versions it sells for its Kindle reading device. Google’s move is likely to be welcomed by publishers who have expressed concerns about Amazon’s aggressive pricing strategy for e-books. Amazon offers Kindle editions of most new best sellers for $9.99, far less than the typical $26 at which publishers sell new hardcovers. In early discussions, Google has said it will allow publishers to set consumer prices.
google  publishing  amazon  trend  e-books 
june 2009 by mediaeater
Journalism.org- The State of the News Media 2009
The State of the News Media 2009 is the sixth edition of our annual report on the health and status of American journalism.

Our goals are to take stock of the revolution occurring in how Americans get information and provide a resource for citizens, journalists and researchers to make their own assessments. To do so we gather in one place as much data as possible about all the major sectors of journalism, identify trends, mark key indicators, note areas for further inquiry.
news  media  2009  analysis  reference  research  journalism  newspaper  publishing 
may 2009 by mediaeater
Google Agrees to Oversight of Its Library Pricing - NYTimes.com
Google has faced an onslaught of opposition over the far-reaching settlement with authors and publishers. Various groups have complained about aspects of the agreement, including the exclusive rights it gives Google to publish online and to profit from millions of so-called “orphan” books. Those are out-of-print books that are protected by copyright, but whose rights holders are unknown or cannot be found. The Department of Justice has also begun an inquiry into whether the settlement, which has to be approved by a court, would violate antitrust laws. Google used the opportunity of the new agreement with the University of Michigan to rebut some of that criticism. “I think that it’s pretty shortsighted and contradictory to me,” said Sergey Brin, a Google co-founder and its president of technology. Mr. Brin noted that the settlement would allow Google to provide online users and library patrons with ready access to books largely hidden in the stacks of major university libraries.
google  copyright  publishing  digitization 
may 2009 by mediaeater
Brewster Kahle - How Google Threatens Books - washingtonpost.com
But the settlement would also create a class that includes millions of people who will never come forward. For the majority of books -- considered "orphan" works -- no one will claim ownership. The author may have died; the publisher might have gone out of business or doesn't respond to inquiries; the original contract has disappeared.

Google would get an explicit, perpetual license to scan and sell access to these in-copyright but out-of-print orphans, which make up an estimated 50 to 70 percent of books published after 1923. No other provider of digital books would enjoy the same legal protection. The settlement also creates a Book Rights Registry that, in conjunction with Google, would set prices for all commercial terms associated with digital books.
publishing  publicdomain  google  book  encoding  digitization  op-ed 
may 2009 by mediaeater
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