Robin Good Archive Of Latest News
April 2009

Beyond Ads: Guide To Alternative Online Business And Monetization Models   As the traditional advertising revenue stream keeps its downtrend slope for many a web publisher, what are the alternative online business and revenue making models that independent online publishers can leverage to increase their overall income and profitability? Beyond traditional banner ads, skyscrapers and Google AdSense strips,... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- April 30

Europe Under Internet Censorship Threat: New EU Telecom Package Challenges Basic Internet Freedoms   If you are an Internet user and are concerned about future control and regulation of your ability to freely access your preferred content and services online, no matter where you live it is now the time for you to stop and understand what the European Parliament... read more | cat.: | Link Blackout Europe Team - Blackout Europe -- April 29

Online Video Ad Formats: IAB Guidelines And Metrics To Monetize Online Videos   The online video advertising market seems to show no decline despite the economic crisis. The last report from LiveRail shows that average CPMs keeps growing bravely, and internet video consumption has been experiencing a massive growth of 40% and more. Since this trend has kept growing almost... read more | cat.: | Link IAB Digital Video Committee - IAB -- April 27

Media Literacy: Making Sense Of New Technologies And Media by George Siemens - Apr 25 09   In this week Media Literacy Digest: the social value of new media, the information cycle, a nice presentation tool, and the real help we get from technology as human beings. Photo credit: Jason Rhode While the information cycle (the process whereby information is produced, validated, shared and re-created... read more | cat.: | Link George Siemens - eLearnSpace -- April 25

How To Get Your Images Indexed By Google Image Search   One of my greatest traffic sources is Google Image Search, and, if you like me, utilize plenty of high quality, well-selected images for your web site, it is likely that the same thing has already happened to you as well. Photo credit: Mario Lopes In case you... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good and Peter Linsley - Google Webmaster Central YouTube Channel -- April 24

Newspaper Industry And Online Business Models: Jeff Jarvis On Why Newspapers Are Doomed To Fail. Quickly   The crack in the newspaper industry egg is very deep. The prospect that newspapers are doomed to fail is not anymore an hypothesis. The scarcity-based, top-down, mass-distribution business model adopted so far by the newspaper industry has no hope to survive or extend its agony in... read more | cat.: | Link Jeff Jarvis - BuzzMachine -- April 22

Top Visual Search Engines: The Most Interesting Ways To Visually Explore Search Engine Results   If you are looking into innovative ways to browse and explore search engine results, visual search engines may provide exactly what you have been looking for. Instead of long lists of page titles and URLs, visual search engines deliver visually rich maps of content results, often... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- April 20

Future Learning Environments: Key Trends And Highlights From George Siemens' Media Literacy   How is the educational landscape going to change in the near future? Which are the key trends and new directions which are going to influence the most we study, research and learn? Photo credit: pnrphoto New, decentralized forms of learning such as personal learning environments, non-traditional and more... read more | cat.: | Link George Siemens - eLearnSpace -- April 18

Content Licensing: How To Monetize Your Content Being Reused Across The Web   How do you close the gap between potential revenues from content used across the Web and and the ability to effectively extract such revenues from unlicensed publishers redistributing your content online? Image credit: Attributor These days controlling distribution is not only less feasible but also less desirable, as... read more | cat.: | Link John Blossom - Shore -- April 17

How To Blog Anonymously And Maintain Control Of Your Personal Privacy - Guide   If you want to cover sensitive issues on your blog, or just keep unwanted readers off your content, here are some specific guidelines on how to blog anonymously while maintaining greater control of your personal privacy. Photo credit: Slobodan Vasic As whistleblowing bloggers keep reporting on stories often... read more | cat.: | Link Electronic Frontier Foundation Team - Electronic Frontier Foundation -- April 15

How To Embed And Display RSS Feeds On Any Web Page: Best RSS-To-HTML Publishing Tools   To display, embed or publish a RSS feed on your home page or blog post, there are a number of little known tools, scripts and web services that can solve your need in a matter of minutes. Here's a live example of an RSS feed embedded... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- April 13

Media Literacy: Making Sense Of New Technologies And Media by George Siemens - Apr 11 09   In this week Media Literacy Digest: data visualization, advances in robotics technology, alternative approaches in education, the future of academic courses and the newspaper crisis. Photo credit: Stephen Downes If from one hand newspapers want to ride the online business opportunities available to them, while spreading their content... read more | cat.: | Link George Siemens - eLearnSpace -- April 11

Visual Thinking And Communication Solutions: Look, See, Imagine And Show - The Best Ways To Visually Communicate An Idea   Visual thinking is about leveraging our innate ability to see - both with our eyes and with our mind's eye - in order to discover ideas that are otherwise invisible, develop those ideas quickly and intuitively, and then share those concepts with other people in ways... read more | cat.: | Link Peter Morville - Semantic Studios -- April 9

Click To Call Embeddable Widgets: How To Bring VoIP To Your Web Site Customers And Readers   Give your readers a way to talk to you straight from your web site with a single click of their mouse. That is the promise that several click to call web service providers are offering to bloggers big and small. By simply signing up for one... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- April 8

Best Video Conferencing Tools: Free, Low-Cost, One-To-One And Multi-Party Solutions - Mini-Guide   To help you track what's going on with video-conferencing A-listers, check out this new guide where I have reviewed and compared all the best free and low-cost video conferencing tools, conveniently separated in one-to-one and multi-party solutions. Photo credit: Mac Doctors Once reserved to pro users with big... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- April 6

Media Literacy: Making Sense Of New Technologies And Media by George Siemens - Apr 4 09   Copyright issues, the online collaboration tools map, visual search engines, and the crisis of newspapers are just some of the fascinating topics of this new issue of Media Literacy Digest by George Siemens. Photo credit: romeisfamily4 The pointers about copyright are particularly worth mentioning. Intellectual property is a... read more | cat.: | Link George Siemens - eLearnSpace -- April 4

How To Publish A Book Under A Creative Commons License With The Support Of The Publisher   Getting your book published under a Creative Commons license may still be one of the hardest task a writer has to go through, as most traditional book publisher still look at open licensing schemes like CC with great skepticism and fear. Photo credit: Vladyslav Danilin But according to... read more | cat.: | Link Xtine Burrough and Michael Mandiberg - Digital Foundations -- April 3

Online Ad Revenue Optimization: Strategies To Increase Web Ads Performance   These are challenging economic times for newspapers. While print advertising is feeling the majority of the brunt, a news organization’s online component has the potential to increase its ad revenue significantly. Quality content and desirable audiences give news organizations a big advantage over other online publishers;... read more | cat.: | Link Rajeev Goel - PubMatic -- April 1

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