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...if WTF is charging the ad rates that other popular podcasts can get—$18 to $25 per thousand listeners—its average spot costs around $8,125. That’s not network TV money, but it’s about five times greater than the average radio spot.

-The Future of Media is Podcasting via/ Fast Co.

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"What we're seeing is YouTube dictating terms to the independent music community with the proviso that if those terms are not agreed to or met, then the repertoire of that label will be removed from YouTube," Johnson says.

"Reach for the Sky, Youtube Music Service Standoff" via NPR

[Comment] Youtube wants to make it's version of Spotify and is going thugtastic @ indies. Get down or lay down....is what they are saying in other words. This underscores why it is SO important for indie folks to have a direct line of engagement with the communities that they serve. It is more work yes, and I am NOT perfect at it, but I know it is important. ~@Reninawrites

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Instead, they were coming from the tweet-happy East and West Coasts — not exactly regular watchers of the camo-wearing Louisiana clan whose members openly celebrate being “rednecks.” About a week later, after A&E analyzed the feedback with some more perspective, the network reversed course on Robertson’s “indefinite hiatus,” reinstating him before he even missed a day of taping.

via NYTIMES on Duck Dynasty and Twitter.

[Comment: It is really important to note how they re-examined the data and realized hey, the folks condemning the show DON'T watch it. Hence the reinstatement. ~@Reninawrites]

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Publish today. Get it out there. Be authentic. Be extremely useful. Don’t be spammy, don’t have ads, don’t have popups, don’t push people to share or subscribe. Just put the reader’s interest first, help him as much as humanly possible, be sincere about it. Don’t worry about making a lot or readership numbers. Focus on helping one person. Then 10. Then the world.

via Wired Writers Guild, Leo Babauta's advice on blogging. I agree with the last five sentences in particular. ~@Reninawrites

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...the message Facebook is sending isn't so much that it wants "high quality" content for its News Feed. It's that if you are a media company, and you depend on Facebook for your traffic, you better make sure Facebook is benefiting from your existence.

Via Gawker

h/t @hellobrooklyn ‏

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The clear implication is that the higher-education models that would be eligible for federal financial aid through the alternate accreditation system wouldn’t have to be colleges at all. They could be any providers of higher education that meet standards of “performance and results.”

[Comment: So the NY Governor wants to put colleges in prisons. AND the President is implying that he will decouple college grants from historical accreditation institutions. Do you know how big this is? ~@Reninawrites]