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Conventional wisdom says that entrepreneurs who start a Web-based business will do so with VC money. Read enough stories of Internet ventures that enjoy lucrative exits in the millions (in some cases billions) of dollars, and it's easy to assume that the only path to success is to begin by securing deals with investors who are far less interested in helping a start-up build a substantial brand as they are in realizing a return as quickly as possible. Bootstrapping simply isn't sexy anymore. But for many start-up publishers, bootstrapping is a way of life, and VC money isn't an option.

Tim Armstrong , CEO of AOL, said he believes the next phase of the Internet is about content. And he told the audience at D8 that AOL is working on the "future of journalism." " lang="en-us

Seems like it should be a simple issue, but complications are growing and the threat to to the Internet as we know it is on the rise.

Cory Doctorow weighs in on what publishing does for authors that the Internet cannot do.

Quick blurb about how readers on the Internet are turning to Wikipedia as a acurate Web site.

Silicon Valley start-up Trackle.com is launching the public beta of its personalized Google Alerts to track pretty much everything in an internet user's life. Trackle's technology and interface is innovative and disarmingly comprehensive. It provides real-time personalized RSS feeds of the latest...

Did the internet kill quality? Or just redefine it?

The Internet retailer has acquired Touchco, a New York start-up, according to a person briefed on the deal.

Software maker reached licensing agreement that covers open-source software used by Internet retailer. " />

LOS ANGELES — The Hollywood trade newspaper Variety is putting its Web site behind a "pay wall" starting Thursday – reserving its online content for paid subscribers and hoping its advertisers will stick around despite the smaller Internet audience. Variety plans to shut off free access gradually, asking one in 10 visitors for a user name and password that will be sent to paying subscribers.

More people are turning to the Internet for their arts consumption...seems to me that this might have implications for 1) people working in the arts (they have to market themselves too), and 2) people who want to do e-projects of various sorts (there is an audience for more complex online projects).

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. Internet retailer Amazon.com Inc said on Thursday that its Kindle electronic book reader posted its best sales yet in the month of December, as the battle for the digital reader

The Washington Post will take a "watch and see" approach rather than rushing into a system to force its Internet readers to pay for content online, the vice chairman of the Washington Post Co., Boisfeuillet Jones, Jr., said over the weekend. Mr. Jones,

A group of writers and editors created a magazine in two days, in an experimental project that aimed to use the Internet to shake up the way a print magazine is made.

Notes on why the novel and the Internet are opposites, and why the latter both undermines the former and makes it more necessary

An AP win could kill "fair use" and change the Internet as we know it. NEW YORK (RPRN) 04/07/09-

News Corp. CEO Murdoch said traditional newspaper and television advertising markets are picking up, but they still must devise new strategies to compete with Internet ads and free online news." />

The implications of Net Neutrality may well affect how people can get to online epublished works, especially those put out by smaller publishers....The Federal Communications Commission unanimously voted to open the proceeding that could lead to open-Internet regulations, although the two Republican commissioners dissented on whether rules are warranted. The approval of the notice to consider net neutrality rules is the culmination of contentious lobbying by the telecom industry and an intense exchange of letters from members of Congress.