(via Fred Wilson): Jim Cramer writes about Viacom’s problems and how they have been compounded by Net/online media. “With that kind of precision targeting [via contexutual/search advertising], Yahoo’s and Google’s…

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“When ownership is excluded from the pricing equation, the fee typically drops. Renting costs less than owning, but while you rent you have temporary unlimited use. What should a streamed,…

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The last line is the crux: “People will pay for wanna-have content when they can feel it as their own, either because it is tangible and downloadable or because it…

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(): An interesting research paper out of Missouri School of Journalism: A model is proposed for ISP customers to receive sponsored electronic newsletters in exchange for a discount on the…

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An FT story on the fragmentation and nichefication of media, as digital media technologies proliferate. “The mass media don’t exist any more,” says Bob Liodice, chief executive of the US…

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Another report by Mary Meeker (read below)...this time, it is an 81-page presentation that focuses on the twelve key trends that the Morgan Staley Internet team believes are driving changes…

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A story following proposals being mooted in U.S. to unbundle cable channels, and offer them a la carte..."Information goods are tricky. The first unit often costs oodles to create, while…

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Vin Crosbie expands on the dismal science in the info industry: “Things will get worse before they get better. There’s no free lunch. There’s no easy answer, simple formula, hidden…

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Some good points, which will lead up to the Bloggercon discussion later this weekend: “A plethora of online news sources is now stepping up to fill this credibility gap. I’ve…

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“Now that the computer has introduced the ultimate manufacturing machine, how can the content industry survive based on the economics of finite supply and demand? Sources as diverse as Reason…

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This speech by Prof Eli Noam of Columbia University follows his controversial column in FT in Feb, which generated a lot of heat and discussion. He follows that up with…

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(sub. req.): WSJ has a special section today on premium content, and trends in the digital media market...this story is an overview and steps content providers must take to successfully…

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An academic story in the latest issue of First Monday on the open-source and “free economy” movement online and whether an economic model can be build around it… very tangible…

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Vin Crosbie extrapolates Seth Godin’s theory on adbundance of media and how that would affect consumer spending behavior… “If most consumers are no longer willing to pay much for most…

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In a survey of media executives, 40% of respondents think neither--subscription of pay-per-use--business methods will win, but both will equally gain adoption. However, more respondents put their faith in the…

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“Combined with looming digital rights management technologies, we are entering an era in which it will be easier than ever to authenticate access to premium content without the infrastructure provided…

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Eli Noam, professor of economics and finance at Columbia University, writing in FT, looks at the structural and endemic problems in the digital content market: “The basic structural reason for…

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Online donations. Believe it or not, a viable alternative for small publishers.  Says Crosbie: We now live in an era when you can actually ask each user to pay whatever…

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Journalists around the world have long agreed on a set of values that help define whether a story is newsworthy. But a new book “Digitizing the News: Innovation in Online…

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Problems which a glut of choices bring fore, in the content arena...for instance, pricing choices..."What is most perplexing about the current jumble of prices is that very little emphasis seems…

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“All of this activity on the software and services side, though, does not seem to be matched by professional content publishers. Big database subscriptions will continue to be an important…

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(via IWantMedia): An analysis piece on how big media players are inreasingly beginning to take convergence cues from players such as Microsoft, Intel and Sony, and how these quasi-tech media…

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That’s me talking to Vin Crosbie, on the trends in premium content over the last year, the the inability of the digital media industry to see beyond day-to-day tactics… “The…

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For many the push to get into the hottest devices possible has left standards hanging in the breeze, while others such as Real Networks and IBM opt to open rights-protected…

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Point # 16: Simplify Web publishing: Why can’t we post files from our desktop to a Web site in one drag-and-drop move? (Um, isn’t that FTP?) Point # 38: Simplify…

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