Archive for September, 2009
Paying for news has to be easy on consumers
Does the Star Tribune’s new Access Vikings Premium sound easy to you? But in addition to the info, registrants have to accept the site’s e-mailed FYI Newsletter and FYI Offers. The offers can be customized, it looks like, but choosing from various categories. [By this point I would be pulling back.] Then they can pick [...]
Entrepreneurs can change the world
Let’s change the world.
Thoughts on why micropayments are a dangerous delusion
Mathew Ingram has a post over at The Nieman Journalism Lab asking if micropayments are the holy grail or a dangerous delusion? I think the answer is obvious. Micropayments will not work for news. Why not? I don’t believe there is a market — News is one of those things that I think macropayments make [...]
Journalism needs a down and dirty revolution
A lot of businesses could benefit from the I like to call the down and dirty principles. Down and dirty says you should never make something that your users don’t care about. Down and dirty means focusing on return on investment. It means admitting that we don’t have unlimited time, money or staff resources. Once we [...]