Comments on: Can explainers be the basis for a revenue stream? Voice of San Diego’s Scott Lewis thinks so

By: paddy hirsch

paddy hirsch — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 05:23:40 +0000

Do media companies still not get it? You cannot charge for this stuff! People will not search for your explainers on your site if they have to cough up cash for them. The WSJ vs the NYT is a great example: NYT explainers are all open source and oft used: the WSJ is behind a firewall…and their explainers are so little searched for, that they have become all but impossible to find. As “new media” companies, like google, have found, if you focus on the user, the rest will follow. Efforts to focus on the money, as this company is trying to do, will be lucky to get out of the gate.

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