Tag Archives: information warfare

Great analysis of the challenges of micropayments as an online news business

Robert G. Picard: The transaction cost problem of newspaper micropayments Summary: No deed goes unpunished. Some points: Each article (or content item) has a different economic value, but the cost of a sale remains significant per article. So, in a collective, more profitable content will need to subsidize less profitable content. Pre-paid accounts for customers would be the most efficient [...]
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Provide solutions to the problems that your stories create

Summary: In today’s information environment, making and selling a product is not a sustainable business. A product is not an end, but a beginning, and a gateway to the real business: providing services around that product. Inspiration: A CNN story about Riversimple, a company from the U.K. that has come up with a hydrogen-powered, less-poluting city [...]
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Word of News: June 13, 2009

Power Survival Sacrifice Lull Precipice
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News Click: May 28, 2009

China fights a skirmish in an ongoing culture war between preserving the past and embracing the future [NYT] Global concerns about control of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons are justified as well-organized guerrilla fighters demonstrate the difficulty if not impossibility of defeating them without massive alteration of underlying cultural conditions [Al Jazeera, NYT, BBC video, WSJ slide show, [...]
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The ways people use information / journalistic services that can be sold around them

I. Social: You are what you know and remember, and what others know and remember about you. Forming groups of like interest / coordinate connections Being in the know / personal topic guidance Creating self-identity / ascribe values to information choices Forming opinions / critiquing service Sharing information (conversation, e-mail, clippings, recordings, etc.) to [...]
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