Tag Archives: media

Subtraction.com – Subscribing to The New York Times

Media com­pa­nies respect their cus­tomers or maybe not.

January 1, 2012 – 10:32 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Design, Marketing, Quick Posts, User Experience, Web Design | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off

FarukAt.eş – Micro-payments And The Web

One of the great big prob­lems on the web today is how to make money from pub­lish­ing con­tent (if your end goal is mak­ing money from content).

November 26, 2011 – 2:42 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , | Comments Off

NYTimes.com – Fox to Limit Next-Day Streaming on Hulu to Paying Cable Customers

So what’s the incen­tive to keep watch­ing shows legally?

July 27, 2011 – 12:04 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

The Faster Times – AOL Hell: An AOL Content Slave Speaks Out

Highly depress­ing read, both into the writ­ing prac­ticed at AOL and what this busi­ness con­sid­ers impor­tant (just gen­er­at­ing stu­pid triv­ial trash to gen­er­ate pageviews).

June 18, 2011 – 12:39 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Communication, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Throwing Fire – LastPass Disclosure Shows Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

Even the tech­nol­ogy jour­nal­ism sites can’t get things right on occasion.

May 8, 2011 – 7:07 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Economics, Quick Posts, Security, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Nieman Journalism Lab – Baseless speculation! Frank Rich and the price of paywalls for writers

Good point to rec­og­nize this dif­fer­ence, but the point must still be made that both need to be paid, and half to find a sys­tem that enables writ­ers and pub­lish­ers to make money off the content.

April 2, 2011 – 3:04 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Communication, Economics, Technology | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

NYTimes.com – Radiation + Cable Anchor + Science = ?

Cable news no mat­ter the net­work typ­i­cally is a pile of fail when it comes to science.

March 27, 2011 – 3:02 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Quick Posts, Science | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments Off