Business Models

Kara Swisher of All Things D posted this chat with Jonathan Weber, editor-in-chief of the Bay Citizen, the San Francisco non-profit news site that launched this summer. Part of its mission is to provide content for the New York Times’ Bay Area section.

This week in the Mercury News, I wrote about three promising business models emerging on the Web: Apps, virtual goods, and daily deals. The column was timed to the big DEMO conference this week in Silicon Valley, where I got a chance to meet Andrew…

A couple of weeks ago, I visited BitTorrent’s headquarters in San Francisco for a briefing with CEO Eric Klinker. This was a routine appointment that turned out to be far more interesting that I expected.

Earlier this week at the Founder Showcase, a Silicon Valley start-up pitch contest, I sat through a number of lukewarm ideas for new companies. But one that made me sit up was a presentation by Gene Massey, CEO of MediaShares.

MediaShift . Writers Talk About Working the Hyper-Local Beat | PBS

Missouri School of Journalism…

A few days ago on the Journalism That Matters email list, someone posted a note that Blognetnews.com, a news aggregation service of some kind, had gone under, probably due to lack of advertising revenue. I had never heard of Blognetnews.com, let alone read…

Of course, the answer is no, far from it. But last week, On The Media devoted its entire show to examining different aspects related to the future of newspapers. Much of this represented well covered ground, so for those of you involved in this…

For all the moaning about the impact of Google News from various publishers, it’s worth remembering that Yahoo News is still several times larger. In fact, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, Yahoo News has 41 million unique visitors in 2009 to…