MediaNews Group, owner of the Denver Post and 53 other daily newspapers plans to start charging for online access to all its newspaper content on its websites.
MediaNews CEO William Dean Singleton wrote a memo to employees saying, "We cannot continue to give all our content away for free."
Malicious Content Found More on Well Established Sites
MessageLabs Intelligence released some new information today indicating that the assumption that most web-based malware resides on fly-by-night websites touting adult content, is an "old-fashioned notion."
Instead, a MessageLabs (part of Symantec) spokesperson tells Murdok that cybercriminals are more likely to be hiding on legitimate web sites tha have been compromised.
Data from the week of May 5th shows that:
Wikipedia Founder Talks Consumer-Generated Content for Branding
Murdok recently spoke with Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia for a few minutes, and discussed the past, present, and future of user-generated content as a marketing medium, not to mention several other topics. What kinds of brands do you think work the best for marketing with consumer-generated content? Share your thoughts with us.
YouTube Gets On Content Producers Who Are Inserting Ads
YouTube is telling some of its content producers that they are in violation of the site’s terms of services by including product placement and commercials within their videos. The reason for this is that YouTube is trying to make money with its own advertising, and advertisers typically don’t want to have to compete with other ones, particularly when they are paying and the others aren’t.
Jimmy Wales Talks Consumer-Generated Content At ad:tech
ad:tech San Francisco kicked off today, and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales was present to give the opening keynote presentation. His speech was called "Wikipedia, Wikia, and the Future of Consumer Generated Content," and it nicely complemented an introduction by Drew Ianni on the state of the overall industry.
AP YouTube Content “Misappropriated?”
The Associated Press is both angering the web and making it laugh this week. By now, I’m sure you’re familiar with the AP’s announced plans to "protect" it’s content from "misappropriation." If not, Murdok Publisher Rich Ord has a good piece on that here.
Google Defends Its Use Of AP Content
Let’s pretend for a moment that you’re the newspaper industry. Your ranks are dwindling as even old stalwarts are dropping like flies.
Murdoch Says Newspapers Must Charge For Online Content
News Corp. chief executive Rupert Murdoch said on Thursday that newspapers must find a way to charge for online content to make up for declining ad revenue.
"People are used to reading everything on the net for free, and that’s going to have to change," Murdoch told attendees at the annual Cable Show event in Washington, D.C.
Murdoch cited The New York Times as an example, saying it has a "very, very good Web site." He said he did not believe the paper would make any money online unless it changes its current business model.
Internationalizing Without Duplicate Content Worries
The SMX Confernece was in Sydney Australia last week, and one topic discussed by representatives of both Google and Yahoo was that of duplicate content filtering across international domains. Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz notes that while the subject has been discussed in the past, many people including experts in the field have been in the dark.
AP Launches News Content Protection Initiative
The Associated Press has announced its plan to launch an initiative to protect news content from "misappropriation" online.
"We can no longer stand by and watch others walk off with our work under misguided legal theories," says AP Chairman Dean Singleton.