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About Journalism Online: Paying for news? Stop dreaming, people!

Washington Post publishes an article from The Associated Press regarding a start-up in San Francisco. AP reports that Steve Brill, formerly known as the founder of Court TV and American Lawyer, is going for a “news business”. What does that mean? His news start-up, Journalism Online, is supposed to get news from all kind of sources and give them to the internet users throughout subscriptions. Users will supposedly pay $300 a year for reading news from publications all over the world. Why do I think it’s going to fail, read below. ... Read more

One damn ugly blog, DeadlineHollywoodDaily.com, sold for $10 million

As you might have heard, Nikki Finke’s blog was sold to Mail.com Media Corporation for no less than 10 million dollars. That’s actually huge for such an ugly blog. I might say, that’s one of the ugliest websites I have ever seen in my 25 years lifetime. Still, DeadlineHollywoodDaily.com is ranked 455 by Technorati.com, which means it’s in Top 500. It probably worth the money ... Read more