Big Is Better, Chapter 144
Big is better. Ideas are great, but capital means the ability to acquire, to build and to sustain a business through harder times.
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The Number
Salon's claiming to be the fastest-growing news site on the web, in stats released today. The numbers: 35% more users during March 2010 compared to March 2009. Key reasons for growth: savvier management under new CEO Richard Gingras, better search engine optimization and the frequent ...
Read MoreThe Star Tribune Hears a Who
If Sweeney came concerned, he might have left more worried. Yes, Public Radio’s legacy business is radio, and, more recently, audio, via podcast and streaming. What Sweeney heard, though, was a larger Who, public radio’s nascent attempts to assert itself as a major online (and then presumably ...
Read MoreGoogle’s Fast Flip Dips Publishers’ Toes in Google’s Own Ad Revenues
Fast Flip, Google's hardly secret visual news search product, just made its debut today. It's a premiere that tells us lots about the swirling tradewinds in which the company now finds itself. It also marks two important milestones, one about the slow replacement of news search 1.0 and one ...
Read MoreHuffing and Puffing on the Door of Local
# Is Huff Post more than a national brand? Does it really have much resonance around local for its readers? Smart aggregation certainly makes sense in concept, but news aggregators have seen relatively slow audience growth. People are busy and not hungrily looking for new sources or pointers to ...
Read More10 Truths the Press Can Learn from the Obama Campaign
Millions of people will open their checkbooks when they see a public service opportunity that benefits them and the wider society. Community organizing is one thing, but a war chest is still another, the yin and yang of the campaign. Small donors ponied up fives, tens and hundreds because they ...
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