/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Picking out patterns in the chaos en-us globalkev@gmail.com 2008-05-14T18:14:15+00:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2008/05/14/future_of_news_economics_of_news.php Gordon Crovitz, recently retired publisher, Wall Street Journal Mark Davis, vice president of strategy, San Diego Union-Tribune Eric Alterman, distinguished professor of English, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, professor of journalism, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism Caveat... 73302@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Economics 2008-05-14T18:14:15+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2007/12/07/cnet_gamespot_and_jeff_gerstmann_controversy_or_conspiracy_theory.php On Wednesday, I spotted a post from Michael O'Connor Clarke about Jeff Gerstmann, a games reviewer and Editorial Director at CNET's Gamespot, who appeared to have been fired for giving a bad review to Kane & Lynch. The game's publishers,... 72921@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Business 2007-12-07T11:05:17+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2007/12/03/creative_business_substitutes_and_complements.php As part of the Creative Business in the Digital Era project, I'm doing some thinking and learning about business models and microeconomics. This post is originally from the CBDE blog. After my post the other day about business model archetypes,... 72908@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Business 2007-12-03T14:17:54+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2007/10/14/duty_to_buy_a_newspaper.php Roy Peter Clark at Poynter certainly has kicked off an interesting discussion with a column on the journalism centre's website in a call to journalists to dig into their pockets and buy the newspaper. His full argument is worth... 72776@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Economics 2007-10-14T23:13:00+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2007/10/03/fowa07b_robert_kalin.php Founded Etsy, website for selling craft and hand made stuff. See it as a soap box for people who make things. Moved to New York, faked ID in order to get classes at university. Wanted to remain unemployed and start... 72740@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Conferences 2007-10-03T14:17:36+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2007/07/04/steve_yelvington_describes_newspapernext_innovation_process.php I'm with Steve Yelvington at the IFRA Asia workshop on citizen media. He's one of the great minds trying to take journalism into the future, thinking about the business, thinking about the journalism and thinking about both print and... 72467@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Economics 2007-07-04T06:48:25+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2007/05/01/internet_world_lulus_model_for_selfpublishing.php I started my day off at the Internet World 2007 conference because I wanted to chat with the folks at LinkedIn for a story I'm working on about online business social networks. The first keynote was by Bob Young,... 72270@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Conferences 2007-05-01T20:33:53+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2007/03/22/guardian_changing_media_business_model_for_free_content.php Session Chair: Nick Higham, correspondent, BBC News Christian Ahlert, director, OpenBusiness.cc Suw Charman, independent social software consultant Adam Freeman, deputy commercial director, Guardian News and Media Question to Christian, what did Google do right? Christian: At first, they were... 72159@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Conferences 2007-03-22T15:25:34+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2006/12/14/feed_the_geeks.php Last week, my good friend Chris Vallance was asked in a radio interview: "What is a geek?" After the interview, he asked me how I would have answered. I thought about it for a while. A geek is someone who... 70548@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Blogging - general 2006-12-14T09:35:25+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2006/12/06/journalismcouk_readers_revolution_panel_on_mymissourian.php UPDATED: On Monday evening, I had to rely on the wisdom of the crowds to help me find Skempton Hall at Imperial College and managed to be only slightly more than fashionably late - good for a party but maybe... 70159@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ 2006-12-06T18:07:25+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2006/10/22/monaco_media_forum_irrational_exuberance_20_not_really.php In January 2005, I went to the Web+10 conference at Poynter in Florida (for the full monty, go here for the audio). Poynter's Howard Finberg asked what our fears were now 10 years into this real-time experiment of online journalism.... 67776@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Economics 2006-10-22T21:49:29+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2006/07/07/ipprreuters_the_long_tail_opportunities_in_a_new_marketplace.php The IPPR and Reuters held a seminar on Tuesday 4 July about the 'long tail' and niche marketing, and how it relates to IP. Speakers were Shaun Woodward MP; Chris Anderson, Wired; Azeem Azhar, Reuters. As usual, I took... 61323@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Economics 2006-07-07T13:40:42+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2005/04/13/six_store_opens.php Six Apart launch a range of merchandise for their devoted fans with the tagline 'The Brits call it a spanner'. Not 'You're a...'?... 13368@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Blink › 2005-04-13T22:23:19+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2005/03/31/the_wordpress_linkfarm_furore_symptomatic_of_a_wider_problem.php There's been a lot of discussion about the way that Matt Mullenweg has been trading Wordpress.org's Google PageRank for cash, hosting unrelated articles on his server in order that they rank more highly in Google. Waxy.org discusses the issue... 13364@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Economics 2005-03-31T12:06:51+00:00