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# links for 2009-05-15
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2009/05/links_for_2009-05-15/
- Published: 2009-05-15T09:30:37.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T14:31:12.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth

- \[It's not just the BBC that prevents British newspapers putting up pay walls :: Shane Richmond\](http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/shane\_richmond/blog/2009/05/13/its\_not\_just\_the\_bbc\_that\_prevents\_british\_newspapers\_putting\_up\_pay\_walls)  
"What I think she's saying is that readers have been used to paying something to receive the news in a convenient format. I would argue that if you take away the format, paper, then you take away the reason to pay." – So can we create a new reason?  
(tags: \[paywalls\](http://delicious.com/adders/paywalls) \[monetisation\](http://delicious.com/adders/monetisation) \[publishing\](http://delicious.com/adders/publishing))
- \[WSJ staffers told to be nice online\](http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2009/05/wsj\_staffers\_told\_to\_be\_n.php)  
Wow. The WSJ completely missed the point here.  
(tags: \[wsj\](http://delicious.com/adders/wsj) \[blogging\](http://delicious.com/adders/blogging) \[journalists\](http://delicious.com/adders/journalists) \[socialmedia\](http://delicious.com/adders/socialmedia) \[etiquette\](http://delicious.com/adders/etiquette) \[journalism\](http://delicious.com/adders/journalism))
- \[Journalism Students Debate Owning iPhones – Digits – WSJ\](http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/05/13/journalism-students-debate-owning-iphones/)  
This shift towards digital learning on journalism course could have interesting side-effects.  
(tags: \[journalism\](http://delicious.com/adders/journalism) \[iphone\](http://delicious.com/adders/iphone) \[apple\](http://delicious.com/adders/apple) \[students\](http://delicious.com/adders/students) \[universities\](http://delicious.com/adders/universities))
- \[Xark!: Why comments suck (& ideas on un-sucking them)\](http://xark.typepad.com/my\_weblog/2009/05/why-comments-suck-ideas-on-unsucking-them.html)  
Nice summation of the reasons commenting goes bad on many mainstream media sites  
(tags: \[comments\](http://delicious.com/adders/comments) \[blogging\](http://delicious.com/adders/blogging) \[community\](http://delicious.com/adders/community) \[journalists\](http://delicious.com/adders/journalists))
- \[Why Raising The Pay Wall May Be An Impossible Dream\](http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-why-raising-the-pay-wall-may-be-an-impossible-dream/)  
Stumbling blocks for paywalls (mixing my metaphors nicely, there)  
(tags: \[monetisation\](http://delicious.com/adders/monetisation) \[paywalls\](http://delicious.com/adders/paywalls) \[publishing\](http://delicious.com/adders/publishing))