photo credit: Spigoo A sort of shadow media industry is born—properties created and staffed by those pink-slipped in '08 and '09. This sets the stage for epic clashes with existing players in '10 and beyond. Media Predictions for 2009 - BusinessWeek. It's still the "media industry," just not really the current one. It's good to…
(Gated) Communities: WSJ.com’s Social Play
Attributing actual identities to forums online will have its effects. It will curtail some nonsense that anonymity allows; it won't negate it completely. Subscribers to the WSJ are already a much smaller subset of the universe of WSJ.com readers. We "know" that somewhere south of 2% of readers actively respond in forums. Does that segmentation…
How to Buy a Newspaper on the Cheap
Jeff's got some, as usual, interesting ideas for getting the newspaper industry on more solid footing. (Even when you know his heart is in shaking the papers awake to save themselves, you can see how they - the industry - would focus on the negative side ...) clipped from www.buzzmachine.com What do you buy when…