Online publishers

Quite sometime ago I did a rather entrepreneurial proposal to the World Association of Newspapers (WAN) about a new, non-profit industry-focused search engine and advertising network to rival Google. I know what you're thinking, apart from the general nuttiness of the idea itself: I must be crazy approaching a "newspaper" ...

We may be in the throes of a global financial crisis, but that doesn’t mean we won’t see innovation on the web. In fact, leading trend analysis blog Read Write Web reminds us of the old cliché that “tech innovation thrives in times of recession”. Tight economic conditions incubate intense ...

Did this interview Gareth Richards from Mags Magazine on online media...1 Can you give me your views on how important your online presence is to the newspaper? Has it grown more quickly/slowly than the paper version?At the Mail & Guardian we are in the fortunate position where both our newspaper ...

I had a feeling this would be the end result. At first there was co-operation and pleasantries exchanged between the media publishers and Google, and then it all went sour. Online publishers and newspapers appear to be heading for a face-off with search engine behemoth, Google.On Thursday, online publishers ...

A newly formed website umbrella body, Website Association of South Africa (WASA), has launched a brand-new web metrics and rankings system for the country. So far it consists of 97 sites and about 20 publishers. At first glance, WASA's stats appear to be overwhelmingly taken from the Online Publishers ...

About a month ago, Google's latest pagerank updates saw a number of major international news sites, A-list bloggers and local sites have their rankings slashed. There was speculation in the international blogosphere that Google's move had to do with the legitimate practice of sites selling paid links, however this is ...

Chaos broke out on the South African blogosphere recently, and it was all caused by a journalist.Columnist David Bullard devoted not one, but two Sunday Times columns to hurling insults at bloggers, calling them “scrofulous nerds”, “narcissists”, and “wackos” whose blog sites are the “air guitars” of journalism. The affair ...

Eamonn Byrne from the World Association of newspapers asked the panel at the last session of this congress: Is partnering with a search engine a good idea?The media industry have two main issues with Google. (1) They believe that Google is unfairly using and profiting off publisher's content. Hence the ...

It's been easy for some to dismiss the blogosphere as a fringe publishing phenomenon. Publishers, who have had a monopoly on mainstream publishing since the invention of the printing press, don't react terribly well to competition – especially competition they can’t really get a handle on.In the wood-panelled offices on ...

The fundamental art of linking is something online media could learn from the blogosphere....Without linking there wouldn’t be an internet.It’s the web of links that leads a user from website-to-website that essentially creates the thing we know as the world wide web. Many commercial online media publishers hate linking ...