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14 Nov 09

FT.com / Comment / Opinion - Murdoch will relish a battle over online pay walls

  • Price is a signal that publishers have been ignoring online for too long. If they can charge for their content, they need to do so as fast as possible. If they cannot, they should stop publishing content that consumers regard as valueless and produce something else instead.
05 Nov 09

Post Tech - The Underestimated Mignon Clyburn

  • She received dozens of hateful messages from “a wide brush” of people concerned with the telecom policy, many questioning her competence. She received “borderline soft threats” by some people whom she declined to identify, “trying to imply a particular direction would wreak havoc of all kinds back at home and here.”
03 Nov 09

National papers 'need to convert less than 5% of web audience to pay model' | Media | guardian.co.uk

  • Dharmash Mistry, a former senior Emap executive who is now a partner at private equity firm Balderton Capital, told MediaGuardian.co.uk that getting about 3% to 4% of an online audience of a national newspaper to pay a modest £3 a month would cover the entire annual digital advertising revenue he estimated most groups currently make.
28 Oct 09

How Google, Amazon profit from net neutrality | Washington Examiner

  • In truth, the net neutrality fight is between the telecoms and the giant content providers such as Google and Amazon, which heavily funded Obama's campaign. The networks in this case want the freedom to change their business model as the Internet changes and profit angles change. The content companies friendly to Obama want regulation to preserve the current business model that maximizes their profits.

  • This one-sidedness is typical in regulatory battles: Businesses that lobby for and profit from big government are given a free pass, while those who oppose regulations as damaging to profit are assailed for their corrupting influence.


    There's money on both sides. The only question is whether the flow of money will be determined by the market or by Obama's bureaucrats.

25 Oct 09

Does the quest for traffic help or hurt newspapers online? - Editors Weblog

  • If such practices continue, content value will
    continue to erode, he says. He recommends going back to creating traditional,
    loyal audiences. "Concentrate on what is unique and special about our content
    and worry less about disseminating it to the widest possible audience."

    He used the example of 3 AM, a gossip website, and
    Mirror Football, two standalone websites recently created by the Mirror to
    exploit audience interest in both topics. Most of the visitors - 90 percent in
    the case of 3 AM -- come through the sites' homepages.
23 Oct 09

A bitter split on Net Neutrality - Ben Smith - POLITICO.com

  • If you haven't been watching this one, here's the summary. The FCC meets on Oct. 22 to propose rules for keeping the Internet open and non-discriminatory as it should be. AT&T and Verizon have been pulling out everything they have to make sure the proposed rules are as weak as possible. They rounded up House GOP leadership, House Republicans. Senate Republicans. The ever-turncoat Communications Workers of America. Minority Groups. You name it, things are bombing into the FCC like nothing I've seen ever, and I've been watching this a long time.

Telecom firms face net-neutrality defeat - washingtonpost.com

  • Facing a major regulatory issue that could be worth a fortune in future business, AT&T has unleashed the kind of lobbying blitz that makes it one of the grand corporate players of the great Washington game.
  • "They are playing the same game but they may not get the same outcomes that they are used to," said a staffer on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which oversees telecommunications policy, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to speak publicly. "The issues and people have changed, from the Obama administration to new members down to new staff, who see things differently."
20 Oct 09

Companies, lawmakers tell US FCC to dump net neutrality - fcc, net neutrality - Good Gear Guide

  • "Until now, the innovators who are building the Internet and creating the advancements in telemedicine, education and the vast array of other online products and services have done so in an environment driven by competition and innovation," said the letter, signed by Cisco Systems, Alcatel-Lucent, Corning, Ericsson, Motorola and Nokia.

Open Un-Neutrality – Will FCC Re-Distribute Internet Opportunity? For Consumers? Businesses? Investors? | The Precursor Blog by Scott Cleland

  • Third, the FCC is arbitrarily mandating one-way technology convergence without any supportable justification, i.e. banning distribution convergence into applications/content, while encouraging application/content convergence into distribution.
  • The FCC rules perversely advantage the netopolies, Google with about a billion users, and eBay’s Skype with about a half billion users, that face little competition, while disadvantaging broadband providers that face substantial competition. The FCC’s asymmetric application of transparency regulations would further skew market outcomes, allowing dominant and non-transparent companies like Google, the substantial competitive advantage of not being transparent when its broadband competitors are forced by regulation to be transparent. It is like hanging regulatory cowbells around the necks of broadband providers so they can never competitively surprise Google. 
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