By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

In this graph, you’ll see how The Times pages views have dropped since they asked readers to register before viewing content behind the wall. It’s the blue line. All of the other UK newspapers reported steady page views.

The readers haven’t had…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

If you don’t think that McClure is right on almost every point in his piece “Subscriptions are the New BLACK. (+ why Facebook, Google, & Apple will own your wallet by 2015)“, then you are wrong. It…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

I’m using the home page at GigaOm as of this moment for inspiration of this post. I’ve always admired the consistent high quality they’ve been able to produce over the years.

There are two posts…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Today, TechCrunch let loose a road block ad that slowed all traffic on the great TechCrunch highway.

The response – users of the free site did the internet equivalent of honking their horns wildly by twittering…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

If the NY Times were an employee and they presented their wishy washy plan and timeline to create a paid model for content you would stop them and ask them to wait in the hall for you. Then you would…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

In keeping with the theme that content wants to be syndicated, not free – I wanted to a bit more explaining.

I’ve been reading up on ‘pay walls‘ and the arguments against them. I haven’t read one…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

This conversation about the next web and putting content up for sale through exclusivity has been a hot button issue for the last few days and worth some more thought. Notice I said, ‘exclusivity’ and I’m not calling it scarcity –…