In News Publishing, Your Subscription Is Either #1 Or Irrelevant With news traffic down in the post-Trump era by anywhere from 20-50%, isn't it time for publishers to think more creatively about their monetization strategies vs. continuing to blindly follow the NYT, even though they are not the same publication? The battle for the subscriber continues to intensify as more
Paygo migrates to Ghost.io We are happy to announce that we have migrated off our own editor to the Ghost.io platform. This allowed us to shut down our own editor and focus on our core business, helping publishers and creators charge for their content in a user friendly, non subscription way - Micropayments.
Today we are launching a public test of Paygo Media. What is it and why am I doing it? Like most of you, I have become more and more worried about the state of the world. I fear that humanity has two main challenges - a hardware challenge (Climate change) and a software challenge (preserving a free, liberal, fact- and science-based society). The first is about life itself; the
The March of Folly in tech From Uber/Lyft's ambitions to build a self driving car to Verizon/AT&T in internet services to "everyone" building a phone - the tech world is full of folly's, predetermined failuresBarbara Tuchman, in her excellent book "The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam" defines folly as: "Pursuit
Some thoughts on Australia and the future of Journalism The latest struggle of Facebook and Google vs the Australian regulator has been framed as a battle of good against evil. Although I don't disagree that Facebook is evil, in this case, they are right. @benedictevans has a great post summarizing the issue as does @caseynewton here and here -
Why did I leave Google or, why did I stay so long? It's been two weeks since I left Google and I keep getting asked “why did I leave now”? I think the better question is “why did I stay for so long”? When Waze was acquired by Google, most of the people who know me did not believe I would last
