The Devaluation of Low Quality Content

Posted on February 8, 2010 by switch11

David Carr at NY Times writes about plentiful content and content factories such as Demand Media. It’s just the latest in a never-ending stream of articles about how content is being devalued and soon it’ll be free. Don’t know about whether content is losing value – However, articles that claim content is losing value are definitely losing value. [...]

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Content, Journalists, and Coding

Posted on January 17, 2010 by switch11

There was a post at either TechCrunch or ReadWriteWeb recently talking about how there’s a new breed of journalist – a hacker/coder journalist. They bring up a really good point – the increasing importance of coding skills. This post will quickly walk you through why tech and coding skills are essential for journalists. The Various [...]

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Kindle’s 2nd exclusive – Coelho Portuguese Books

Posted on January 8, 2010 by switch11

Amazon scored another exclusive today (announced just after midnight) by getting Portuguese eBook versions of 17 Paolo Coelho books exclusively on the Kindle. This is pretty significant as Mr. Coelho is the best-selling author in Portuguese – ever. Here’s Amazon’s write-up – We’re excited to announce that international bestselling author Paolo Coelho has decided to [...]

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15 ways to look at content and selling content

Posted on December 27, 2009 by switch11

People’s thoughts on the value of content diverge all the way from ‘Content is King’ to ‘Content is Worthless’. This post will simply walk through 15 ways of looking at content and/or selling content. #1 People tend to view Content according to what suits them Consider ebooks – Some portion of readers want to believe that ebooks cost [...]

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Evolution of Books? Reviewing Vooks

Posted on October 2, 2009 by switch11

Before we jump into reviewing vooks let’s quickly go over what a Vook is – A Vook is basically a video-book that is 40% video, 40% book and 20% of social networking. There are 4 views – Watch View is videos, approximately one per chapter, that go with the story. You can pull down a layer with the vook text [...]

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