links for 2006-08-03

[Blogs Not Helping Newspapers Attract Younger Readers](http://www.micropersuasion.com/2006/08/blogs_not_helpi.html#comment-20573764)
No big surprises here. Newspaper blogs might engage their existing readers more, but aren’t really structured in such a way as to reach out to new readers. And, of course, young people find news booooooring.
(tags: [newspapers](http://del.icio.us/adders/newspapers) [media](http://del.icio.us/adders/media) [publishing](http://del.icio.us/adders/publishing) [blogging](http://del.icio.us/adders/blogging) [blogs](http://del.icio.us/adders/blogs))
[The New Yorker: Amateur Hour](http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060807fa_fact1)
The New Yorker finds blogs and misses the point. It’s really strange watching some publications reinventing the discursive wheel two years after other publications went through it.
(tags: [magazines](http://del.icio.us/adders/magazines) [media](http://del.icio.us/adders/media) [publishing](http://del.icio.us/adders/publishing) [blogging](http://del.icio.us/adders/blogging) [blogs](http://del.icio.us/adders/blogs))

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