The New York Times will begin a paid subscription section starting next Monday, 9/19, that will primarily include columns. Jupiter analyst David Card wonders:
shall we start the countdown for how long this lasts till the Timesmen (and women) demand to be set free so they can continue to participate in the online blogger-commentariat fray?
Over in the UK, text messaging is taking on new importance as a way to communicate with the parents of school children. From LeedsToday.net: FOR 27,000 parents, a reminder of an upcoming teacher training day, or a message that a school trip is returning late, could soon arrive instantly by text message thanks to Leeds-based…
Seth’s Blog: I’m liveblogging this Seth Godin joins the anti-liveblogging crowd (tags: blogs) TripAdvisor Growing With Help of User Generated Content “TripAdvisor is successfully showing the blue print of how to leverage user generated content, now the only question is the rest of the world watching? And who will be the next business to take…
Outsell has an excellent analysis of New York Times Select. Their blog post looks at what future moves the NYT online might make and has an early evaluation of the movement to paid content for parts of the site from the Times’ own Martin Nisenholtz.
The Chicago Tribune reports on the FEC’s latest plans for regulating online political activity. And, at least as sketched out in this report, the proposal seems reasonable since it seeks to mimic "real world" requirements in cyberspace. Web loggers, who pride themselves on freewheeling political activism, might face new federal rules on candidate endorsements, online…
I graduated back in 1994 from American University in Washington, DC. I confess that I haven’t done the best job of keeping in touch with many of my fellow graduates — actually I can count on one hand the number of classmates I still socialize with regularly. But in recent years I have become a…
Stuff worth checking out: "Chris Heuer is the project lead: Signups for the new media press release (really!)" (Tom Foremski) – more on the effort to update the press release for the new media age. Something worth following. "Blogs, Politics and Public Relations" (Beltway Blogroll) – campaigns in the new media age "GOP Superiority in…