At this week’s Association of Online Publishers conference in London, celebrated US interactive thinker Clay Shirky, who teaches new media at New York University and has written Here Comes Everybody,…

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Want to see dozens of online publishers celebrate, commiserate and almost certainly inebriate? Look no further than Wednesday night’s Association of Online Publishers award ceremony for each. See anyone familiar?…

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Annelies van den Belt, a flying Dutchwoman, quit as ITV’s (LSE: ITV) online head in April for upstart Moscow-based LiveJournal owner Sup. I caught up with her when she revisited…

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Our UK editor Robert Andrews spent the day at AOP’s seventh Digital Publishing Summit, covering what AOP calls the “3 C’s”—content, convergence and creativity in digital media. Earlier in the…

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Troubled ITV (LSE: ITV) will launch a new mobile site for its Friends Reunited network in the next few months - and plans to use football to popularise the medium.…

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Wired’s resurrection in the UK and Italy will also come with more new sites offered in several new languages. International president Stefano Maruzzi said the new operation, which was announced…

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It’s not as if no-one anticipated what might occupy Sly Bailey’s keynote to the Association of Online Publishers conference in London this morning - the Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) CEO…

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We’re thrilled to announce that National Hockey League Commissioner Gary Bettman will be featured in the Spotlight Q&A at our EconSports conference the morning of Oct. 29. The event will…

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We have some exciting new additions to our speaker lineups for our trio of conferences at the end of October: the Future of Business Media on Oct. 28, EconSports and…

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Here’s Reuters TV’s package from our EconMusic conference in London on Tuesday, in which singer-songwriter Billy Bragg called for reforms that would help social media sites to pay artists more…

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Thanks to everyone for coming to our inaugural EconMusic conference in London on Tuesday, which was chock full with interesting discussions from a stellar lineup of speakers. Here’s the photo…

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Everyone, by now, is familiar with Radiohead’s no-label, direct-to-fan experiment last year. But a growing number of operators is playing with different interpretations of a thesis that’s been around as…

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Billy Bragg used our EconMusic conference in London to urge the emerging wave of web services to pay artists fairly for using their songs. ”Everyone’s making a shitload of money,…

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Cautious about being seen to devalue music, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) used our London EconMusic conference today to stress that tunes via its upcoming Comes With Music scheme will be anything…

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Just one outtake out of many from the energetic discussion about social media and music taking place now at EconMusic. Billy Bragg: “That’s my income stream you’re pissing with.”

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Mobile music, the art of welding a Walkman to a handset, has so much promise - but in most countries outside the Far East it’s still just that. Two thirds…

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Legal music services are going to have to give consumers a much better experience than the usual downloading a song for free, but what those services might look like is…

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It’s clear that BPI CEO Geoff Taylor has his hands full. As the head of the UK record industry’s trade association, he has had a long slog trying to get…

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Today’s the big day—we’re holding our EconMusic conference at London’s Natural History Museum Tuesday afternoon. The event will include a keynote Q&A with BPI CEO Geoff Taylor and several panels…

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As we gear up for Tuesday’s EconMusic conference in London, we’ve assembled a list of the top five recent music deals by size. Given the tremors in the music industry,…

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Our EconMusic conference is just seven days away and we’ve finalised our programme details along with the speakers’ list. Meet us at London’s Natural History Museum to talk about all…

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With less then two weeks to go, we’ve added to an already excellent lineup for our EconMusic conference at London’s Natural History Museum on Sept. 23.  Geoff Taylor, chief executive…

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Did we mention that Billy Bragg is speaking at EconMusic, our London conference examining the digital music business on September 23? Billy has previously taken on MySpace for its policy…

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As a bit of compensation for the end of summer, we’re offering tickets to EconMusic at a special back-to-work 20 percent discount for this week only. We’ve got a great…

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Early bird ticket sales are now open for EconMusic, our half-day conference on Sept. 23 exploring the emerging economics of the digital music business. We’ll resist the “dinosaurs” comparison, but…

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