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Why Netflix is a cautionary tale for newspapers

September 19, 2011

The problem for print publishers — one that Netflix arguably doesn’t share — is that their legacy business still produces the bulk of the revenue they pull in via advertising, and therefore, the incentive to de-emphasize or radically downsize that part of the business isn’t as obvious. Hence, the reason why you see so many [...]

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Sorry Imus, but you deserved it

April 14, 2007

I am sick and tired of people saying “this is about free speech and Don Imus has the same rights as any other American” etc. WRONG. It’s about money. Once the advertisers leave, you are toast. David Carr wrote a great piece in The New York Times yesterday with his list of reasons why it [...]

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Wilfing…..yeah, explains a lot actually…

April 10, 2007

Ever get online just to check the weather and find yourself watching YouTube videos for two hours? Thank God somebody came up with a term for it: Although a newly-identified habit, more than two-thirds of the 33.7 million internet users in the UK admit to at least the occasional “wilf” (a term derived from the [...]

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Procrastination

March 4, 2007

In no particular order… Reddit Digg Newsvine Lifehacker Boing Boing NYT Why? Because it’s Sunday afternoon and I should be preparing for my two journal article presentations, writing hypotheses for my group’s news theory, and studying for my ethics mid-term…hehe.

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