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November 11, 2004
Web/print roles continue changing
Minonline: How Not to Be Your Print Magazine Online. "Most brands have gotten beyond that early online impulse to recreate their magazines online and have discovered that extending a brand online means locating and focusing on its core competency in a task-oriented Web environment."
Examples: "At People Online, the staff recently moved onto the same floor as the print side, yet the editorial direction of the Web site has become much more focused on a core competency, using the Web to break celebrity news." and at "Fortune.com the emphasis has turned to print archives for financial researchers and deeper versions of the famous "lists" of corporate and individual wealth."
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Oligopoly Watch on solar power and big-box retailers
Oligopoly Watch: Betting on solar power. This entry by Steve Hannaford looks at how large energy and technologies dominante the field. A few days earlier, he had this entry, "Wal-Mart and the landscape," looking at the difficulty of filling their space when the Wal-Mart and other giant retailers move into other buildings in the area or close.
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