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At heart, my argument for full RSS feeds is similar to my argument against a NYT paywall, and neither argument has anything to do with a sense of entitlement on my part.
Instead, both are simply bad business decisions.
If you truncate your RSS feeds, you’ll get less traffic than you had with full feeds, and you’ll alienate an important minority of your audience. And if you implement a paywall, the increase in subscription revenues will fail to offset the decrease in ad revenues, even as you’ll alienate lots of your audience. So neither makes commercial sense.
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| — | Felix Salmon on the logic behind Gawker’s decision to truncate it’s RSS Feeds |
Foursquare, a location-based social network, plans to distribute a new analytics tool and dashboard in the coming weeks that will give business owners access to a range of information and statistics about visitors to their establishments.
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Foursquare Introduces New Tools for Businesses - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com (via brooksjordan) Smart. The easier it is for an IRL business to track conversions the easier it is for them to commit to internet-based promotions. (via tedr) (via mikehudack) |
New Museum Ethics Quagmire Gets Its Own Unofficial Ad Campaign
With its combination of horrible shows and its obvious ethics problems the NuMu has become an utter embarrassment.
- Thievery Corporation (73)
- Massive Attack (18)
- Mozart (16)
- LCD Soundsystem (15)
- Francis and the Lights (11)
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Ad blocking software works because there are telltale technical cues that a site isn’t paying the same level of attention to ad content as they are to editorial content (whereas print magazines pay more attention to ad content–that’s how they work).
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| — | Rob Sayre’s Mozilla Blog - Why Ad Blockers Work |
Hrag is moderating a panel TODAY at 4:30PM on “Finding Your Voice in the Art Blogoshpere” at Smartcamp.
If you can’t make it to the Roger Smith Hotel, be sure to check out the Live Stream online at socialmediaartcamp.com
For more info see: Art Blogging Panel at SMartCAMP this Sunday — Hrag Vartanian
So Next Wednesday starting at 5pm, at Winkleman Gallery in Chelsea, New York City, we will, together, create a 24 hour group intervention. Your presence is humbly requested at any point, for any length of time. At 5pm, Thursday March 11th, we will pop every skinny balloon that we have blown up during our time together.
Described as an “exercise in futility and one of joyous absurdity.”
Can’t wait to experience it.
