The growing trend in news these days is a paywall. To people used to the wide open internet from their younger years, it’s certainly a wake up call when you’re faced with a login page asking for a credit card just to read the news. But there are worse things in life. But if you’re a 3 UK cellular customer, things will be great — for the next three months at least. The Times and 3 UK have reached a deal to bring the entire online edition of the...
We’ve talked about good ‘ol (way over the hill) Rupert Murdoch. In a more general light, I’ll commend Mr. Murdoch as he has built up a media giant. At the same time, it is an extremely backwards looking and technologically retarded giant. It’s no secret to anyone in the tech world, this man hates the very mention of the word “free”. To him, everything should come with a price, paywalls erected everywhere, and the free flowing internet...
Getting your content onto the internet is quite the challenge in todays online world. For one, there is millions of websites all vying for your attention, each with their helping of information waiting to be devoured by your hungry eyes and minds. With so many sites to weed through, search engines are easily one of, if not the most important tool for crawling through the internet. So why would you want to purposely block yourself from being found? Perhaps that’s a...
Oh boy. If you want to see a good form of irony, this is it folks. China is accusing Google of censorship. Never mind the fact that China has made headlines countless times for blocking numerous websites and social networking services above and beyond what is necessary. Though, censorship is never necessary. I’ll admit that many countries, the U.S. included, blocks sites here and there and manages to stay out of the public spotlight. But I’m sure we all...
When trying to grow your business, especially one in this digital age with competitors cropping up by the hundreds if not thousands, shooting yourself in the foot with poor business decisions doesn’t seem like a very good way to continue rolling in the dough. For Newsday (which is owned by Cablevision) a paywall isn’t necessarily the best idea as many customers expect a free web portal, the way they are going about it is all wrong. The likely scenario would...
