Comments on: Old Media Still Doesn't Get New Media http://www.jasonunger.com/2007/11/30/old-media-still-doesnt-get-new-media/ Welcome to my lifestream Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:30:57 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: blog.rightreading.com » Friday Roundup http://www.jasonunger.com/2007/11/30/old-media-still-doesnt-get-new-media/comment-page-1/#comment-139 blog.rightreading.com » Friday Roundup Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:04:20 +0000 http://s34902.gridserver.com/?p=181#comment-139 [...] Old media still not getting new media [...] [...] Old media still not getting new media [...]

]]> By: Ben Drawbaugh http://www.jasonunger.com/2007/11/30/old-media-still-doesnt-get-new-media/comment-page-1/#comment-137 Ben Drawbaugh Tue, 04 Dec 2007 19:38:35 +0000 http://s34902.gridserver.com/?p=181#comment-137 Well said. Lets face it, they don't understand how to market their media on the Internet. They think that just putting some content online is all they need to do. The real irony is that most old media has always been funded with advertisements. You'd think that selling new ads for old content instead of throwing it away would be appealing to them. Well said. Lets face it, they don't understand how to market their media on the Internet. They think that just putting some content online is all they need to do.

The real irony is that most old media has always been funded with advertisements. You'd think that selling new ads for old content instead of throwing it away would be appealing to them.

]]> By: Davis Freeberg http://www.jasonunger.com/2007/11/30/old-media-still-doesnt-get-new-media/comment-page-1/#comment-138 Davis Freeberg Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:12:53 +0000 http://s34902.gridserver.com/?p=181#comment-138 I don't get what the big deal is either. At least 70% of my traffic comes directly from the search engines and the other 30% is usually from blogs who found my story in a search engine to begin with. Without Google, I'd probably get 10 hits a day. If someone was running a subscription service I could see them getting a little worked up by some of Google's caching and what not, but it's hard for me to believe that these sites end up losing money from people seeing summaries and then being tempted to pay money to see the whole thing. If I was Google, I'd play hardball. If the AP doesn't want them to use their content, then I'd drop every single news site that uses AP from my engine. If they did that, AP's customers would freak out on them and we'd see them shut up about this issue. Instead of trying to blame technology, they need to be addressing the real issues for why their businesses are failing. I don't get what the big deal is either. At least 70% of my traffic comes directly from the search engines and the other 30% is usually from blogs who found my story in a search engine to begin with. Without Google, I'd probably get 10 hits a day. If someone was running a subscription service I could see them getting a little worked up by some of Google's caching and what not, but it's hard for me to believe that these sites end up losing money from people seeing summaries and then being tempted to pay money to see the whole thing. If I was Google, I'd play hardball. If the AP doesn't want them to use their content, then I'd drop every single news site that uses AP from my engine. If they did that, AP's customers would freak out on them and we'd see them shut up about this issue. Instead of trying to blame technology, they need to be addressing the real issues for why their businesses are failing.

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