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More tips for your multimedia projects

The blog 10,000 Words has some great tips for putting together a mul­ti­me­dia project, and these tips can save you money too! Check them out here.
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Newspapers need to capitalize on scarcity

Scarcity will drive the news orga­ni­za­tions of the future and help them dif­fer­en­ti­ate them­selves from all the com­pe­ti­tion, says Nic Brisbourne, a part­ner at a European ven­ture cap­i­tal firm in a post on paidContent.org. Newspapers, he says, have spent the last few decades enjoy­ing a vir­tual monop­oly on infor­ma­tion and adver­tis­ing dis­tri­b­u­tion, but that monop­oly [...]
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Information wants to be free... and expensive

Given how many elec­trons have been spilled of late over the “infor­ma­tion wants to be free” ver­sus micro­pay­ments debate, I thought it would be help­ful to remem­ber what author Stuart Brand actu­ally (says he) said when he “coined” the phrase: On the one hand infor­ma­tion wants to be expen­sive, because it’s so valu­able. The right [...]
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Journalist Bailout Program

TypePad, one of the biggest subscription-based blog­ging providers, has offered free pro-level accounts to jour­nal­ists and ex-journalists. I’m seri­ous. You can check it out for your­self if you want. I already sent them an e-mail ask­ing for an account. I’m pretty noto­ri­ous for using WordPress on all of my sites, but I can’t pass up [...]
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