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Verticalization in action

July 2, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 2 Comments

Michael Wolff has written in Vanity Fair about Politico, which demonstrates many of the priciples of verticalization that I have written about often on this blog. He begins with a summary of a startlingly prescient piece Michael Crichton wrote in the fourth issue of Wired Magazine. Wolff writes: “In the fourth issue of Wired magazine, in […]

Filed Under: New Models, Politics, Publishing, Vertical Tagged With: Michael Wolff, Politico, Vanity Fair

What replaces charging for content? Does anybody really know?

June 16, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 4 Comments

Do you know “Newser”? It’s a news aggregation and filtering service that is, in its way, even more threatening to the established order than things like Google News or Memeorandum. The latter two services are entirely automated: they find and organize news stories from all over the web and quote just a snippet of the […]

Filed Under: New Models, Publishing, Vertical Tagged With: Google News, Memeorandum, Michael Wolff, Newser

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