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Inside Word: How Newspapers Should Solicit Donations

Jan 8, 2010 5:55 PM

The Inside Word is a weekly feature that looks at compelling industry debates and discussions unfolding on the blogs of employees at digital-media companies. Blogger: Steve Outing Position: Founder of the Digital Media Test Kitchen at the University of Colorado’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication and former columnist at…

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Posted In: Features, Inside Word, E-Commerce, Payment Systems, Micropayments, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Online News

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Inside Word: How The Big Search Engines Should Rank Tweets

Dec 18, 2009 4:40 PM

The Inside Word is a weekly feature that looks at compelling industry debates and discussions unfolding on the blogs of employees at digital-media companies. Blogger: Hutch Carpenter Position: Carpenter is the VP of product at Spigit, which sells social software to businesses; it has raised $14 million in funding Blog…

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Posted In: Features, Inside Word, Search, Companies, Google, Microsoft, Bing, Twitter, Yahoo

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Inside Word: Bing Is ‘Dumbing Down’ Search

Dec 4, 2009 9:00 PM

The Inside Word is a weekly feature that looks at compelling industry debates and discussions unfolding on the blogs of employees at digital-media companies. Blogger: Martha Sperry Position: Sperry is an attorney and manager of Advantage Advocates, which provides editing and marketing services—online and offline—to high-net-worth insurance and financial-industry clients.…

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Posted In: Features, Inside Word, Search, Companies, Google, Microsoft, Bing

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Inside Word: How To Crack Down On ‘Scammy’ Offers In The Virtual World

Nov 13, 2009 5:00 PM

The Inside Word is a weekly feature that looks at compelling industry debates and discussions unfolding on the blogs of employees at digital-media companies. Blogger: Sean Ryan Position: Chairman, teen-centric virtual world Meez Blog name: SharkJumping Backstory: Two weeks after TechCrunch first reported on what it said was the prevalence…

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Posted In: Features, Inside Word, Entertainment, Games, Social Media

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Inside Word: In Defense Of Ads In Twitter

Nov 6, 2009 6:10 PM

The Inside Word is a weekly feature that looks at compelling industry debates and discussions unfolding on the blogs of employees at digital-media companies. Blogger: Mark Suster Position: Partner, GRP Partners Blog name: Both Sides Of The Table, which features startup advice Backstory: No one knows what percentage of Tweeters…

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Posted In: Advertising, Features, Inside Word, Social Media, Nanopublishing, Companies, Twitter

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Inside Word: Where Aggregators Fall Short

Oct 30, 2009 5:00 PM

The Inside Word is a weekly feature that looks at compelling industry debates and discussions unfolding on the blogs of employees at digital-media companies. Blogger: Mathew Ingram Position: Blogger and communities editor at Toronto’s The Globe and Mail Blog name: Mathew Ingram Backstory: Online news aggregators continue to proliferate and…

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Posted In: Features, Inside Word, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Online News

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Inside Word: What The Netflix Prize Says About The Shortfalls Of Ad-Targeting Startups

Oct 23, 2009 3:10 PM

The Inside Word is a weekly feature that looks at compelling industry debates and discussions unfolding on the blogs of employees at digital-media companies. Blogger: Andrew Chen Position: A self-described entrepreneur-out-of residence, Chen is a former entrepreneur-in-residence at early-stage VC firm Mohr Davidow Ventures and was a director of product…

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Posted In: Advertising, Features, Inside Word

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Inside Word: Some Advice For Yahoo From An Ex Evangelist

Oct 9, 2009 4:09 PM

The Inside Word is a weekly feature that looks at compelling industry debates and discussions unfolding on the blogs of employees at digital-media companies. Blogger: Jeremy Zawodny Position: Zawodny was a tech evangelist at Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO)—and one of that company’s best- known employee bloggers—until he quit in June 2008.…

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Inside Word: An Entrepreneur Warns Of The Dangers Of Acquisition Talks

Oct 2, 2009 3:20 PM

The Inside Word is a weekly feature that looks at compelling industry debates and discussions unfolding on the blogs of employees at digital-media companies. Blogger: Greg Linden Position: Linden founded Findory, a news aggregator that adjusted its listings of stories to match a visitor’s behavior on the site; it shut…

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Posted In: Features, Inside Word, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Companies, Google, Microsoft

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Inside Word: For Media Companies, The ‘Package’ Is More Important Than The Contents

Sep 25, 2009 4:25 PM

The Inside Word is a weekly feature that looks at compelling industry debates and discussions unfolding on the blogs of employees at digital-media companies. Blogger: Scott Karp Position: CEO and co-founder, collaborative journalism startup Publish2. One of the company’s tools lets journalists flag and then share links to content that…

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Posted In: Features, Inside Word, Media & Publishing, Online News, Companies, Google

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Inside Word: Suppose Search Were Competitive—How Would That Affect Newspapers?

Sep 18, 2009 3:20 PM

The Inside Word is a weekly feature that looks at compelling industry debates and discussions unfolding on the blogs of employees at digital-media companies. Blogger: Chris Dixon Position: Co-founder, decision-making startup Hunch Blog name: cdixon.org Backstory: When publishers complain that they don’t share in any of Google’s ad revenue, Google…

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Posted In: Features, Inside Word, Companies, Google

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Inside Word: Why Do So Many Startups Fail?

Sep 11, 2009 3:59 PM

The Inside Word is a weekly feature that looks at compelling industry debates and discussions unfolding on the blogs of employees at digital-media companies. Blogger: Steve Blank Blog name: Steve Blank Backstory: Blank is a serial technology entrepreneur, who wrote Four Steps To The Epiphany, which was published in 2005.…

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Posted In: Features, Inside Word, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital

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Inside Word: Some Advice For Yahoo And AOL As They Double Down On The News Business

Sep 4, 2009 3:00 PM

The Inside Word is a weekly feature that looks at compelling industry debates and discussions unfolding on the blogs of employees at digital-media companies. Blogger: Tim Oren Position: Managing director, Pacifica Fund Blog name: Tim Oren’s Due Diligence: Letters From An Inhabited Dataspace Backstory: Oren is a co-founder of Silicon…

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Posted In: Features, Inside Word, Companies, AOL, Time Warner, Yahoo

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Inside Word: Twitter Could Be The Next MySpace (And That’s Not A Compliment)

Aug 28, 2009 11:50 AM

The Inside Word is a weekly feature that looks at compelling industry debates and discussions unfolding on the blogs of employees at digital-media companies. Blogger: Cody Brown Position: Publisher, NYU Local Blog name: CodyBrown.name Backstory: Brown is a college student who founded a daily campus news blog at New York…

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Posted In: Features, Inside Word, Social Media, Nanopublishing, Companies, News Corp., MySpace

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Inside Word: There’s No Economic Value In A Copyright

Aug 14, 2009 3:00 PM

The Inside Word is a weekly feature that looks at compelling industry debates and discussions unfolding on the blogs of employees at digital-media companies. Blogger: William Patry Position: Senior copyright counsel, Google Blog name: Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars Backstory: Patry has practiced copyright law for more than 25…

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Inside Word: What Newspaper Ads Still Have Going For Them

Aug 7, 2009 2:30 PM

The Inside Word is a weekly feature that looks at compelling industry debates and discussions unfolding on the blogs of employees at digital-media companies. Poster: Steve Yelvington Position: Digital strategist, Morris Communications Blog name: Yelvington.com Backstory: Yelvington has an editorial background—he worked as the executive editor of network content at…

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Posted In: Features, Inside Word, E-Commerce, Classifieds Business, Media & Publishing, Newspapers

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Inside Word: In Praise Of The Financial Times’ Online Pay Model

Jul 31, 2009 3:00 PM

The Inside Word is a weekly feature that looks at compelling industry debates and discussions unfolding on the blogs of employees at digital-media companies. Poster: Fred Wilson Position: Managing partner, Union Square Ventures Blog name: A VC Backstory: As newspapers struggle to make money online, The Financial Times offers one…

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Posted In: Features, Inside Word, E-Commerce, Payment Systems, Media & Publishing, Newspapers

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Inside Word: How Selling Bing Is Different Than Selling Word

Jul 24, 2009 4:30 PM

The Inside Word is a weekly feature that looks at compelling industry debates and discussions unfolding on the blogs of employees at digital-media companies. Poster: Mark Johnson Position: Senior program manager, Microsoft Blog name: Deliberate Ambiguity Backstory: Johnson has worked for several search startups, including SideStep, Kosmix and Powerset, which…

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Posted In: Features, Inside Word, Search, Companies, Microsoft

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Inside Word: Why Pervasive Lying On Social Networks Is A Big Problem For Marketers

Jul 17, 2009 3:41 PM

The Inside Word is a weekly feature that looks at compelling industry debates and discussions unfolding on the blogs of employees at digital-media companies. Poster: AJ Kohn Blog name: Blind Five Year Old Position: VP of online marketing at Caring.com Backstory: Facebook continues to post astounding growth in the ranks…

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Posted In: Features, Inside Word, Social Media, Companies, Facebook

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Inside Word: What Crowdsourcers Can Learn From ‘American Idol’

Jul 10, 2009 8:00 AM

The Inside Word is a weekly feature that looks at compelling industry debates and discussions unfolding on the blogs of employees at digital-media companies. Poster: Kenneth Yeung Blog name: The Letter Two Position: Yeung is a freelance interactive producer, who also blogs for domain name registration firm Network Solutions. Backstory:…

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