My Interesting Reads (weekly)

• » Newspapers, Paywalls, and Core Users
  "For some time now, newspaper people have been insisting, sometimes angrily, that we readers will soon have to pay for content (an assertion that had already appeared, in just that form, by 1996.) During that same period, freely available content grew ten-thousand-fold, while buyers didn’t. In fact, as Paul Graham has pointed out, “Consumers never really were paying for content, and publishers weren’t really selling it either…Almost every form of publishing has been organized as if the medium was what they were selling, and the content was irrelevant.”"
  tags: Shirky paywalls audience
• Five ways digital isn’t working for Trinity Mirror — paidContent
  "Online earnings are falling despite booming audiences at leading UK news publisher Trinity Mirror, caught in a confluence of circumstances that prompt the big question — does content pay?"
  tags: trinity mirror paidcontent
• How I learned to stop worrying and love new Tweetdeck
  Nice blog post from Storyful, which Includes some handy tips and diagrams for anyone upgrading to 'new' Tweetdeck... 
  tags: tweetdeck socialmedia
• Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship
  What is a social network? How is it defined, why do some succeed when others fail, and what make us use them? "The purpose of this  is to provide a conceptual, historical, and scholarly context for the articles in this collection. We define what constitutes a social network site, present one perspective on the historical development of SNSs, draw from personal interviews and public accounts of sites and their changes over time...We conclude with suggestions for future research."
  tags: socialnetwork socialmedia
• Debate: Will Web and Television Converge?
  elevision shows will have other types of media like text merged into them, and World Wide Web pages will begin to be temporal entities that tell a story. Another way of looking at this is that both your television and your computer will be running a similar super browser which will allow the same content to be viewed on both devices. Also, to say that the two converge it is not enough to say that you will be able to watch television on your computer-- that merely means that television content is a sub-set of computer content and is already possible today. For the two to truly converge the content that can be received by both devices should be the same"
  tags: web convergence media

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.