Nine Questions on Patch’s New Push: National Hyperlocal?, SEO Sauces, and the Case of the Besieged Florist

• Ken Doctor

• Ads & Commerce - Dailies - Gannett - Mobile, Smartphone & Tablet - More Ken Doctor Posts - New York Times - News Tech - The New News

• August 16, 2010

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So who's the ad competition? Maybe we should ask, who isn't? ...The question, here, is one of sustainability. Certainly, there's the question whether Patch can sustain itself, as its parent AOL struggles to find a new identity and growing business model. Then, there's the question of the ...

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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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