Comments on: It’s about aggregation

By: bittorrent

bittorrent — Mon, 19 May 2008 02:17:45 +0000

The BBC isn’t ’state funded’ it is funded by members of the public through a TV licence. If you have a TV you pay the licence fee and it is far better value than companies that have ads and shareholders.

It works out at about $5.30 per week. Tell me that’s a bad deal for all the ad-free BBC TV channels and radio stations.

Any money the BBC makes from international advertising revenue, goes back into prgramme making, there is no profit and there are no shareholders. Which means more programmes for UK viewers for less money.

So Emily Bell, please explain how that is a bad deal for the British public. I think you mean it is a bad deal for The Guardian, which can’t even get a decent Flash player on its website yet, and other vested interests.

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By: Brad King

Brad King — Thu, 15 May 2008 22:12:42 +0000

Banding together is a bad way to run a business, particularly when they are so many other ways to create revenues off content that already exists - whether it be on-demand, user-created books from pre-existing content (or company-design books around selling seasons) to building databases and APIs that open up information to the public…

The long term solution isn’t finding a better way to sell a banner. Smart netizens haven’t seen a banner in years (thank you AdBlock). Smart companies like eBay, Amazon and :gulp: Apple realize the money — the real money — is in selling products, things, stuff you can hold or use.

Newspapers can do that digitally as well — if they begin to think outside the (computer) box.