Jason Colon - jason l colon . com » Internet http://www.jasonlcolon.com Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:46:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Vodka Killed the Video Star http://www.jasonlcolon.com/2009/03/15/vodka-killed-the-video-star/ http://www.jasonlcolon.com/2009/03/15/vodka-killed-the-video-star/#comments Sun, 15 Mar 2009 18:48:50 +0000 Jason Colon http://www.jasonlcolon.com/?p=186

Is this the future of brick and mortar video rental stores?

]]> http://www.jasonlcolon.com/2009/03/15/vodka-killed-the-video-star/feed/ 0 Will the Cleveland Plain Dealer be shut or go digital by the end of next year? http://www.jasonlcolon.com/2009/03/13/will-the-cleveland-plain-dealer-be-shut-or-go-digital-by-the-end-of-next-year/ http://www.jasonlcolon.com/2009/03/13/will-the-cleveland-plain-dealer-be-shut-or-go-digital-by-the-end-of-next-year/#comments Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:50:04 +0000 Jason Colon http://www.jasonlcolon.com/?p=175

According to a Time.com article (read the article here), the Cleveland Plain Dealer is one of 10 major newspapers that will either fold or go digital in the next 18 months.

The 10 newspapers were chosen on the basis of three criteria:

  1. The financial strength of their parent companies;
  2. The amount of direct market competition;
  3. Their financial losses (based on industry information).

So, how bad are the industry’s financial losses?

According to a Silicon Alley Insider estimate, printing and delivering the New York Times costs twice as much as buying each subscriber a new Amazon Kindle ($359 Retail).

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What is The Long Tail? According to Wikipedia, the phrase The Long Tail (as a proper noun) was first coined by Chris Anderson in an October 2004 Wired magazine article to describe the niche strategy of businesses, such as Amazon.com or Netflix, that sell a large number of unique items, each in relatively small quantities. 

At oDesk.com, you can hire, manage, and pay your global development team from the comfort of your own office.  An innovative concept, oDesk.com is an online workforce marketplace, connecting buyers with providers.

You can either post or find a job for free.  Currently, there are nearly 6,000 open jobs on the site ranging from fixed-price web design to part-time video game coding.

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Jasonlcolon.com is now feedback enabled!

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