Category Archives: publishing

Who reads the front page?

Posted on April 9, 2007 by Rakesh Agrawal

I was trying to determine how profitable Tribune’s online operations would be if they blocked sites from displaying links to their stories. The answer: “Not very.” The stats for washingtonpost.com and nytimes.com (which have much stronger online operations than Tribune) … Continue reading →

Posted in journalism, media, newspapers, publishing | 4 Comments

Advertisers disintermediating newspapers, too

Posted on April 8, 2007 by Rakesh Agrawal

I wrote yesterday about content providers disintermediating newspapers. Advertisers are doing the same. We’ve all heard about the effects that craigslist has had on the three pillars of the classified business: real estate, automotive and recruitment. Direct-to-consumer email poses a … Continue reading →

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Disintermediating newspapers (and the most useless RSS feed ever)

Posted on April 7, 2007 by Rakesh Agrawal

I mentioned earlier that one of the big challenges facing newspapers is that much of what they do is unoriginal; many newspapers are just aggregators. Comics are an example of content that many people looked to newspaper for. Mislead the … Continue reading →

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Newspapers vs. search engines

Posted on April 7, 2007 by Rakesh Agrawal

The Tribune company’s soon-to-be owner, Sam Zell doesn’t like search engines. From the Washington Post: In conversations before and after a speech Zell delivered Thursday night at Stanford Law School in Palo Alto, Calif., the billionaire said newspapers could not … Continue reading →

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Election night’s big winner: the Internet

Posted on November 8, 2006 by Rakesh Agrawal

Election night is a perfect example of one of the best aspects of the Internet: instantaneous delivery of information to widely fragmented audiences. No waiting for the next day to get results from the newspaper. I didn’t even have to … Continue reading →

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Keeping online newspapers relevant

Posted on October 9, 2006 by Rakesh Agrawal

Editor and Publisher reports on Washington Post editor Len Downie speaking at the Online News Association’s convention: Downie worried that as people’s attention spans become shorter due to the Web and more readers access news from mobile plaforms on the … Continue reading →

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Shovelware 2.0 – the mobile Web

Posted on October 1, 2006 by Rakesh Agrawal

When I started in the online business in 1994, shovelware was everywhere. Content from print and other sources was put online – shoveled – indiscriminately on to the Web. Little attention was paid to what users actually needed and valued … Continue reading →

Posted in media, mobile, newspapers, publishing, wireless, wireless data | 2 Comments

Module-based personal publishing

Posted on July 17, 2006 by Rakesh Agrawal

On my personal blog, I’m experimenting with module-based publishing. As I adopt new services across the Web, I’m finding that much of the information I generate is blog worthy for the people that are interested in my personal life. On … Continue reading →

Posted in blogs, facebook, google, personalization, publishing, social networking, web 2.0, yahoo | 3 Comments