Paid Content System For Newspaper Publishers

might be made available by Google before the end of this year. It seems the solution will be based around a single sign-on process for multi-site purpose. Not sure if that will make a massive impact in the user experience for people to start paying to access news sites. Article.

Print misses the ad recovery

While the ad market overall has recovered from the depths of the recession, the ad market for print publications remains depressed. Chart.

Content is no longer king: curation is

king. Opinion piece about the evolution of content from quality to noise and the trends backing the explosion of content. Very applicable to classified content also. Good Read.

Newspapers getting crushed by

their own weight.  Pretty much everything that has come to pass was predicted, but what did the big newspaper groups do? Very little that was right. More.

MIG Buying SMS Response Facilitator

Piri. Seems there’s still room for consolidation in the UK mobile marketing space. More.