This is the first in a regular series of posts that aims to pull you in to subjects and experiences beyond your core competencies. There are numerous examples of common issues across different sectors so here’s a chance to find out how others are grappling with those thorny issues.
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More than a year ago The Times (of London) introduced its paywall solution, followed in March this year by the New York Times. So how have they been doing? When compared to print circulation the answer would have to be not very well.
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Tweet So here it comes. The Times Online paywall is set to be launched. Thanks to our friends at paidContent:UK for Stephen Brook’s posting today that reported News International Chief Executive Rebekah Brooks told staff that readers registered with Times Online will be invited to register for an “exclusive preview of the new digital proposition” [...]
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Tweet Following on from my earlier post that The Times Online had barred aggregator NewsNow.co.uk from crawling its website, it seems News International as a whole has the bit firmly between its teeth and has also banned the linking service from crawling any of its newspaper sites including including The Sun Online and the News of [...]
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Tweet The battle of the aggregators and news providers deepened today, with UK service NewsNow.co.uk saying News International had barred it from being able to link to any content on Times Online. The increasingly bitter confrontation over the right to link to freely available news content threatens to set precedents that fly in the face [...]
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Tweet Jeremy Hunt, the UK’s shadow culture secretary (that means that if the Conservative Party win the election next year he will likely be Culture Minister), has said the BBC‘s growth represents a threat to democracy and must be reined in with curbs to its websites, executive pay and commercial activities. In an interview with [...]
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