CNet News is running an interesting piece about how to charge for content on the Web–and get people to pay for it. “I do not look at the Web as a broadcast medium that relies mostly on advertising,” says Michael Schutzler, the CEO of Classmates.com. “Rather, I think the Web is a direct-marketing medium. This is what a magazine is. For a magazine to survive, it needs multiple revenue streams, such as annual subscriptions and advertising.”
In their typically clinical manner, The Economist offers useful guides for various cities throughout the world.
If you get locked up in Baltimore, keep your nose clean. The “special management meal” sounds terrible.
OddPost appears to be an amazing new Web-based email system.
Here’s a periodic table of behavioral traits.
“Bring on the Time Zones,” W.D. Wetherell says in an excellent essay praising the “phantasmagoric” feeling jet lag produces.
American newspapers are supposed to be objective. In comparison to British papers, are ours boring and “bloodless”?
Although their endowments have been hit hard by the economic downturn, American foundations are still giving away a lot of money.
This summer’s World Cup TV schedule has been announced.