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More Paywall Discussion Paid Members Public
[http://twitpic.com/rv2gs]A few interesting follow-ups to my posts about the content Paywall debate: - Eric of Websnark explores the idea that [people adapt to what’s convenient for them](http://www.websnark.com/archives/2009/11/one_of_the_most.html) – and if you make visiting news
The Obligatory Clay Shirky Link Paid Members Public
Whenever Clay Shirky posts about journalism, journalism blogs must link it. It is the law. * *In this case, it’s worth it, too. He does a very straightforward piece of [analysis of a newspaper in the US](http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/10/rescuing-the-reporters/), figuring out what it’s
Goodbye to the London Paper Paid Members Public
And so the paper that started the London evening freesheet war is gone: [](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/assets_c/2009/09/IMG_1275-1442.html) I doubt this will
Google Fast Flip and our Thumbnail Overlords Paid Members Public
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/assets_c/2009/09/New%20Picture%20%2834%29-1414.html] That’s the thumbnail view you get in Safari, Apple’s web browser, when you open a new tab. The confluence of these two ideas suggest that, as the processing power and bandwidth develops to do
News: Can't Give It Away Paid Members Public
I’ve mentioned before [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2009/04/why_free_devalues_print.html] that I think the urban freesheets like Metro and the London Paper have been pretty effectively devaluing news for a while. I’m sat drinking a coffee in Farringdon, as I arrived rather early
The News Industry's Dunkirk Paid Members Public
The Guardian’s published a superbly-written piece by Simon Jenkins [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/aug/10/newpaper-internet-paywall-murdoch-live] today, that catches exactly what I think about paywalls, the state of the publishing business and our route out of this quagmire: > At present the newspaper industry is like
The Second Paid Content Experiment Begins Paid Members Public
So, it’s happened, as we all knew it would. Rupert Murdoch is taking his online sites paid-for. From the BBC story on the announcement [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8186701.stm]: > In order to stop readers from moving to the huge number of free news
A Brief Flirtation with Daily Newspapers Paid Members Public
I’ve been doing something for the last few weeks that I don’t normally do: I’ve been buying a daily newspaper. And here’s why: [](https:
