Category Archives: Mike Masnick

Newspapers vs. Google Round XII: “Please — Just Buy Us”

If it sounds as sad as I think it does, I worry that the ongoing debate (if it can be called a debate) about the evolution of newspapers in the face of Google has taken a turn for the pathetic. Jon Carrol, of the San Francisco Chronicle, a paper which has had to organize [...]

Some Thoughts On the Personalities At Mesh

Interesting meeting some of these folks in person. Here are my thoughts on what some of them were like, or seemed like.

Live at Mesh07 : Day 2 @ 1635h: Monetizing the Long Tail — Life Beyond Adsense

Andrew Goodman talks to Christine Herron, Ted Murphy, Mike Masnick and Nancy Peterson on monetizing things beyond Adsense.

On business models

MM: There’s a lot of stuff that’s free — what do you charge for and what do you give away … the more you look at the economics of things and the history behind things, you [...]