Friday 29 July 2011

Good ol' Nieman Journalism Lab, insightful as ever. This time they tackle the issue of transitioning customers from physical media to digital media, drawing parallels between Netflix's recent price hike and the fate of news and other publishing businesses who have yet to make such a move:
"The newsonomics of Netflix and the digital shift"

Wednesday 27 July 2011

Interesting companion piece to Spotify's US launch. Reading this, I can't help but wonder how well the Spotify model could be applied to video as well as music:
Daniel Ek’s Spotify: Music’s Last Best Hope

Friday 15 July 2011

Just a quick update to the last post, particularly Eli Pariser's... It turns out that Yahoo! are trying to revive themselves by extending individuals' filter bubbles across the internet:
Yahoo Prepares New Web Ad Push

Wednesday 13 July 2011

A couple interesting pieces that have caught my eye lately, both highly relevant to my current job...

Groundhog Decade: Hollywood is about to repeat the catastrophic mistakes of the music industry

• Remember how badly the music industry reacted to Napster? Is the TV/film industry doing the same thing today?

 Seven Things Human Editors Do that Algorithms Don't (Yet)

• Interesting to see the HBR jump on the filter bubble bandwagon.