6 posts and columns on online news

Who’s Going to Pay for Online Content? A) A Few of You B) Barely Anyone C) You’re Already Paying

in Media on November 16, 2009 at 7:05 am PT

The new conventional wisdom is that sooner or later, consumers will have to start paying for some of the stuff they currently get for free on the Web. But will they actually pay up? Here, the conventional wisdom is not so helpful. Nor are studies predicting consumer behavior.
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Fwix Unveils Revenue-Sharing Plan for Hyperlocal Bloggers

in News on November 12, 2009 at 7:47 am PT

An online news start-up is going where Google and other giants haven’t: sharing revenue with the people who write the news. Fwix, a one-year-old start-up backed by BlueRun Ventures, is one of a growing number of portals for “hyperlocal” news, a buzzword that refers to sites about schools, culture, gossip and other information on a neighborhood level.