The Online Ad War Begins

The Standards Editor of the New York Times,  Allan M. Siegal, made an interesting admission in an interview with his own publication today: I’m supposed to be the recipient of any complaints and misgivings by the staff about how we’re doing and what we’re doing, the person who adjudicates differences of opinion about how we…

We’re going through a bit of a growth spurt over at CustomScoop and have a number of immediate job openings in our Concord, NH office.  It’s an exciting time for the company with lots of fun projects on the horizon.  Our five years of success in selling news monitoring services to medium to large businesses…

TechCrunch profiles a new music matching service called Pandora.  Basically, it is a recommendation engine built on the components of a song, rather than what other users decided to listen to or purchase.  They apparently have human listeners who tag each song with a wealth of information about the sounds and style.  Then when a…

MediaPost: A University of Missouri J-School experiment with a "citizen journalism" site found Readers and potential contributors are not interested in a rehash of events and issues that are already covered ad nauseum by the city’s other news media. Rather, they are interested in issues that go largely ignored on the nightly news

I attend conferences more for the conversation and inspiration than for the panels.  So I was pleased over the past two days to meet a bunch of smart, interesting people.  For example, last night at dinner I had the opportunity to sit next to Jim Nail of Cymfony. His company has recently gone through a…

MediaPost Publications – New Search Engine Will Give Users Premium Content, For Free Congoo’s business model questioned (tags: PaidContent VerticalSearch Search)