Nine Questions: Philly.Com Gets Risque, Anti-Trust and Newspapers, Senior Niching, craigslist Killers and the Sweet Science of Content

• Ken Doctor

• 9 Questions - Dailies - GAFA - Google - New York Times - The New News

• August 5, 2009

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What is Christine Varney taking from her newspaper industry talks? Obama's new anti-trust chief has drawn a lot of attention for her interest in Google's books deal, and beyond that, to Google's great search dominance. Varney has also been meeting with news industry people, management and ...

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Circulate Aims to Keep News Readers In the Family

• Ken Doctor

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• July 10, 2009

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Important Details: CircLabs has joined the growing group of start-ups offering the news industry new paths to revenue streams. For CircLabs, it’s all about “discovery,” the sense that news readers on the web need better pointers to good, contextual news content. So its first ...

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Is Circulate the Geritol the News Industry Needs?

• Ken Doctor

• Ads & Commerce - Dailies - GAFA - Google - New York Times - Paywalls and Digital Circulation - The New News

• July 7, 2009

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Here's my sense of the biggest questions ahead for it: * Scale: First and foremost, this is the challenge for any new solution, no matter how potentially game-changing. The network effect is a web law, and one of which news companies have so far failed to take sufficient advantage. If the goal ...

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