I suppose dinosaurs were pretty disoriented in their final years roaming the earth so maybe we shouldn’t be too critical of the newspaper industry today.
Still the fact that the WSJ publisher is lashing out at Google as the cause of the newspaper death spiral is unsettling. Sure, Google has been a prominent player in […]

Here’s my take on Chris Anderson’s forthcoming Future of Free.
First, the notion that businesses can make money by giving something away for free isn’t new by any stroke of the imagination. It is also a pretty well studied phenomenon by economists. I think the earliest mathematical treatment I saw was in R.G.D. Allen’s excellent […]

If you’d like to participate in a live webcast about Obama’s proposed financial regulation plan, register here, you’ll have a chance to ask questions to subject matter experts on Thursday, June 25 at 2 pm EDT. The webcast is “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Obama’s Proposed Financial Regulation Plan” and is moderated […]

I figured I’d take the Twitter plunge despite my skepticism. I’ve been at it a week to help promote FinReg21.com our new media property on financial services regulation and its reform. Here’s a preliminary report. The good news is that it is fun and easy. Knocking out 140 character comments is pretty easy and the […]

Yesterday’s article about Facebook’s new search feature was as much a discussion of its strategic direction as it was the new feature. The article spent a lot of time explaining the travails around Facebook’s attempt to be more like Twitter and how its next update will eschew that in favor of the features that existed […]

The financial services industry will be more closely monitored if much of President Obama’s regulatory plan that was released today gets enacted.
The White House team obviously put a great deal of work and thought into this plan. Congress, industry and the public will now need to go over it carefully. Here are four questions […]

The news of the RIF at MySpace puts front and center the need for social networks to adopt new business models to keep them afloat. As this news suggests, treating social networks as just another ad-supported on line channel puts them at risk when ad fortunes go south. More importantly, it fails to capitalize upon […]

The populist bandwagon to whack the credit card companies for a financial crisis they didn’t cause is still going on. The latest is proposed legislation —really a revival of stuff that’s been floating around—to help the merchants reduce the fees they pay to the card companies. You don’t need an advanced degree in economics—just […]

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Is One the Right Number? Risks of Moving to a Single Regulator
Several federal regulatory agencies now have oversight over various aspects of the financial industry. In the wake of the financial crisis, the Obama Administration, Congress, and a number of commentators have given […]

Interesting interview in yesterday’s WSJ with John Malone. The topic: how to get web visitors to pay for content on the web. The conclusion: advertising as a business model won’t cut it but there is a way to get consumers to ante up for content if bundled with what Malone describes as community and connectivity.
Interesting […]