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Publishing in an Agentic AI World
I was fortunate to be invited last week to the kick off meeting for an IAB Tech Lab task force dedicated to establishing a framework for Monetizing the Open Web in the age of AI. The accelerated use...
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The recent Perplexity acquisition rumors echo the moment Google was getting ready to buy YouTube back in 2006. Back then, pundits were concerned Google was taking on a whole host of potential...
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Preserving Publisher Rights in the Era of AI Chatbots
Last September, I gave a talk at the Media Party conference in New York to propose a method to track the origin of text as it travels through a Large Language Model (LLM). Tracking provenance is...
View ArticleAccess as a Service
Tim O’Reilly popularized the term “Web 2.0” to explain the network effects of the participatory web enabled by dynamic web pages tied to personalization. He is excellent at summarizing large technical...
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OpenAI has an App Store
OpenAI’s DevDay keynote had the look and feel of all Silicon Valley product announcements – a well-scripted parade of announcements, a couple live demos, and even a “one more thing” that is revealed...
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Search finds, chat extracts
The title of this post is from last week’s People vs. Algorithms newsletter. What starts with a grim evaluation of BuzzFeed’s latest earnings leads into a grim prospectus of the online media industry...
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That was fast
AI-generated junk suffocating online platforms like algal blooms that choke the life out of ponds. Hustle bros are jumping on the AI bandwagon Well that was fast. While still pondering the impact of...
View ArticleIs Social Media Just Network Television Reborn?
What if we follow the trend of the “app-ificaiton” of media to the next logical step? What if Snapchat’s Discover feature is just the modern version of network television where channels control...
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Where do you get your music?
How we pay for music, 1983-2014 Digital Music News put together a visual showing the mix of revenue streams for music over the past 30 years. CDs, which represented only 0.5% in 1983 grew to the...
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Advertising, paywall or a bit of both?
GigaOM posted the audio to a fascinating session at last month’s paidContent Live conference. In it, there’s a great insight/throw down by Bob Bowman, CEO of MLB, Advanced Media. Right around the...
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Unbundled Lectures and the Napsterization of Education
In the US, an undergraduate education used to be an option, one way to get into the middle class. Now it’s a hostage situation, required to avoid falling out of it. And if some of the hostages having...
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The Customer is God
I am a bit surprised that there was not more buzz around Doc Searls’ recent article, The Customer is God, where he re-hashed his argument for a new world of merchant/customer relationship that he has...
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Is Next Issue the Spotify for Magazines?
Over the weekend I posted a question wondering why no one has done what Spotify has done for music and Netflix for movies. The fact that no one has stepped in to offer a bundled subscription for...
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Subscription Bundles
Very interesting experiment over at the Chicago Tribune. The Chicago Tribune will at last begin charging for its online content through an innovative scheme that will also give readers access to a...
View ArticleIs Social Media Just Network Television Reborn?
What if we follow the trend of the “app-ificaiton” of media to the next logical step? What if Snapchat’s Discover feature is just the modern version of network television where channels control...
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Where do you get your music?
How we pay for music, 1983-2014 Digital Music News put together a visual showing the mix of revenue streams for music over the past 30 years. CDs, which represented only 0.5% in 1983 grew to the...
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Advertising, paywall or a bit of both?
GigaOM posted the audio to a fascinating session at last month’s paidContent Live conference. In it, there’s a great insight/throw down by Bob Bowman, CEO of MLB, Advanced Media. Right around the...
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Unbundled Lectures and the Napsterization of Education
In the US, an undergraduate education used to be an option, one way to get into the middle class. Now it’s a hostage situation, required to avoid falling out of it. And if some of the hostages having...
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The Customer is God
I am a bit surprised that there was not more buzz around Doc Searls’ recent article, The Customer is God, where he re-hashed his argument for a new world of merchant/customer relationship that he has...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Is Next Issue the Spotify for Magazines?
Over the weekend I posted a question wondering why no one has done what Spotify has done for music and Netflix for movies. The fact that no one has stepped in to offer a bundled subscription for...
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