Tag: model

Which comes first, the audience or the subscription?

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What I find interesting about Andrew Sullivan’s move to a ‘porous’ subscription model for his site The Dish, is where the various $20 subscribers came from. There wasn’t a long pledge drive, there wasn’t a slow burn as people had to decide to sign up or not. On announcing the change and the membership fee, Sullivan and his team saw over $900,000 in cash pledged by his readers. That there is the dedicated audience. That’s the ‘1000 Fans’ concept in action. Sullivan has a base audience who consider his site to be part of their life so much that there

The pyramid of Groupons begins to crumble

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The consumers were being told: You will never pay full price again. The merchants were hearing: You are going to get new customers who will stick around and pay full price. Disappointment was inevitable. David Streitfel of The NY Times on the increasingly visible issues around Coupon Discount sites. Here comes the press questions and backlash, and I’m not sure the business models are going to survive.

Vipers For Now, Picking Up CGI Girls Next Week

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Sometimes it’s fascinating to watch an artist at work, and if you’re the sort of person that likes CGI then the last week should have seen you over at Darth Mojo’s blog. He’s a cgi artist who works on the new Battlestar Galactica series, and last week he posted the image below with a simple question – which is the CGI picture, and which is a screen grab from the 1970’s original series? This week, he’s posted not only the answer, but a full explanation on taking a clean and almost clinical CGI model, to something that’s bashed, dirty and