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18pandora 1000 The Content Strategy of Pandora

The Song Decoders at Pandora, by Rob Walker.

The Content Strategy of Pandora

10.19.09 | Content Strategy, Industry Shift, Products & Services

 

“Whoever defines the interface wins.”

via The Time Inc./Condé Supergroup Conundrum – Bill Mickey – Blogs emedia and Technology @ FolioMag.com.

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Traditional publishers — concerned that Apple’s anticipated tablet computer could affect their business the way the iPod disempowered music publishers — are discussing possible strategies, including an industry-wide digital storefront where tablet users could buy digital issues or subscriptions without going through iTunes or the App Store.

via Apple Tablet: Magazine Industry Eyes ITunes for Print – Advertising Age – MediaWorks.

Earlier this year, Time Inc. CEO Ann Moore tasked her lieutenant John Squires with figuring out how to put the digital “genie back in the bottle”. Here’s part of his answer: A Hulu for magazines.

via Publishers Like Time Inc.’s “Hulu For Magazines” Pitch. What Will Apple and Amazon Say? | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD.

10.14.09 | Business Strategy, Industry Shift, Products & Services, Theory & Practice

Even news-aggregator Web sites, like Tina Brown’s Daily Beast, promote themselves as cultural curators.

“The Daily Beast doesn’t aggregate,” Ms. Brown says in a statement on the site. “It sifts, sorts, and curates. We’re as much about what’s not there as what is.”

In fact, curatorship of photos culled from Flickr pages, or of knitted scarves on Etsy, can be an artistic pursuit in itself, said Virginia Postrel, a cultural critic and the author of “The Substance of Style.”

“Because there are more things to put together,” she said, “the juxtapositions become a big part of the interesting experience of those things. It is a creative activity in itself.”

The Word ‘Curate’ No Longer Belongs to the Museum Crowd – NYTimes.com.

10.13.09 | Editorial & Programming, Industry Shift

 

Mindful of what happened to the music industry at a similar transitional juncture, book publishers are about to discover whether their industry is different enough to be spared a similarly dismal fate.

via Digital Domain – Will Piracy Become a Problem for E-Books? – NYTimes.com.

10.13.09 | Industry Shift, Products & Services

seet+spots+for+pay How to sell news on the web: A checklist

The opportunity seems to be bigger for B2B than B2C content, but operators of the websites of the Wall Street Journal and Financial Times already knew that.

via Reflections of a Newsosaur: How to sell news on the web: A checklist.

How to sell news on the web: A checklist

10.09.09 | Business Strategy, Editorial & Programming, Industry Shift, Theory & Practice

 

Journalism has always been about reporting facts and assertions and making sense of world affairs. No news there. But as we move further into the 21st century, we will have to increasingly rely on “data” to feed our stories, to the point that “data-driven reporting” becomes second nature to journalists.

via Journalism Needs Data in 21st Century.

09.16.09 | Editorial & Programming, Emerging Media, Industry Shift

Beet.TV: Time to Produce Your Videos in Highest Quality, Mike Hudack Explains.

09.10.09 | Industry Shift, Video

  • Microformats, hNews, the AP and the Animals
  • The Nichepaper Manifesto
  • The Pushbutton Web: Realtime Becomes Real
  • What Would Fair Use Look Like in an Online Era?
  • Patchwork Nation: Frameworks for Reporting

via Ryan Sholin, Crucial reading on the evolution of news, as it stands today – Invisible Inkling.

09.01.09 | Editorial & Programming, Emerging Media, Industry Shift

 

“There is going to be a very broad content economy in the future and we’d like AOL to be at the centre of it [....] The one underinvested place on the internet from a technology and structured data perspective is content,” Mr. [Tim] Armstrong said.

via Kenneth Li, FT.com / Technology – AOL sets sights on content-led domination.

08.12.09 | Business Strategy, Industry Shift

Jeff Bercovici debuts a new series, Media Brain Trust: Death watch edition.

08.05.09 | Industry Shift, Products & Services

For the full discussion, watch the video below.

The panel included:

Chrystia Freeland, US managing editor, Financial Times

Larry Ingrassia, business editor, The New York Times

Sree Sreenivasan, dean of student affairs & new media professor, Columbia Journalism School

Laurel Touby, founder & CEO, Mediabistro.com

Moderated by Betty Wong, global managing editor, Reuters

MediaFile » Blog Archive » Is your newsroom ready for the future?

07.14.09 | Business Strategy, Industry Shift

 

The blogosophere has at least four Fields medallists (the Nobel of math), three Nobelists, and many more luminaries. The New York Times can keep its Pulitzer Prizes [....] The result is that the people who add the most value to information are no longer the people who do production and distribution. Instead, it’s the technology people, the programmers.

via Michael Nielsen.

07.08.09 | Industry Shift, Platforms & Channels

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