At the IAB leadership summit, newly installed IAB chairman reignited the debate over premium content on the web carrying a micropayment fee.
MediaPost Publications Bold Predictions From 24/7 Real Media’s Moore: Publishers Should Create ‘Toll Gate’ For Premium Content 02/22/2010.
Prognosticators like Chris Anderson claim “information wants to be free”, a theme throughout his new book “Free:  [...]

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the impact that search engines are having on writing.  Almost every web publisher I know now trains their authors and freelancers to write in a “search engine friendly” way.  Entire firms bill themselves as producers of “search engine friendly content”.  Many interactive ad agencies a measured and compensated [...]

According to the WSJ, 2009 Q4 activity pleased to the upside in the advertising market with pent-up demand finally being set loose.   Too early to call a rebound, but even the newspaper and magazine companies saw a lift in print advertising.
Late Flurry of Ad Dollars Fans Recovery Hopes – WSJ.com.  (need a subscription to view… [...]

In another sign that traditional publishers, particularly newspapers, are feeling the pinch of both the economic downturn and the shift in media preferences, the NY Times – a bell weather of newspapers – posted dismal revenue and earnings with total advertising revenue declining by 27% during Q1 compared with Q1 last year. Declines were worst [...]