WSJ: “Just a few years ago, as dot-com companies started to tank, many analysts had predicted that some free Web content and tools would disappear or dwindle. “Free is certainly making a huge comeback these last 12 to 18 months,” says Olivier Travers, a technology consultant in the U.K. who in March 2001 launched a blog, theendoffree.com, chronicling the move to fee-based services from free.”
Errata: In “Push media comes of age” last week the seminar for online publishers on RSS to which I referred was put on by the good people of the UK Association of Online Publishers. It should have appeared in that column, and the subsequent column but, unfortunately, didn’t.
TBBC is going to teach more UK hacks how to blog. Yay…. I think?
Well, that’s another year of E-business Briefing columns chalked up.
Went to the Neal St Restaurant for Google’s annual Christmas press lunch, graciously hosted by their UK ad sales MD Kate Burns. Antonio Carluccio, the owner, walks in before we start lunch and tells a joke he says he tells each Christmas to his customers: “There’s a little boy, the son of a Mafia boss. His father tells him that to get any presents from Father Christmas he must write
I have a been a big advocate of RSS in the past. But this article (which I have come to late, alas) has an interesting take on how RSS might start to look like a DOS attack. I’m not sure what the answer is, but I’m afraid we are going to have to get used to these issues, or come up with more interesting ways of dealing with them, since
Why on earth is there still no RSS feed from the Media Guardian? Are they afraid of something? Do they think media people don’t ‘get it’ (they may be right actually, but that’s another debate). Or are they worried it might adversely affect their impressions? In fact, perhaps it has something to do with the fact that you have to register for their stories? Could it be that their new
Sony is trying to sue long-time blogger, Jason Kottke, because he posted a tiny audio sample of a question from a US game show. Sony owns the show. That’s it. They really are that pathetic. So I suggest people consider boycotting Sony and mailing their CEO (howard_stringer@sonyusa.com) to tell him that this is rather heavy handed behaviour over a tiny one-man blog. (Thanks to Calacanis).
Journalist tires of comment spammers because of bandwidth costs – so decides to cut access for offending IP addresses! That’s one original move.
Google Sues AdSense Publisher for Click Fraud: Google has filed its first click fraud lawsuit, charging a Texas-based Web site and its owners generated fraudulent clicks on ads in its AdSense program, causing Google to pay them for useless traffic to its advertisers.