paywalls
The Times opens up (a little) Paid Members Public
Talking of RSS [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2011/01/rumours_of_rsss_demise_are_greatly_exagg.html] , I note than some more changes have hit everyone’s favourite paywalled enterprise, The Times online. First up, the blogs now have a free-to-air front page [http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/
Time(s) for the weekend papers... Paid Members Public
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2010/12/DD8813C0-9AF6-455E-8EE8-EDFFD42557511.jpg] Time for a little Times update, as it were. The last time we spoke about it [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2010/11/on_those_times_paywall_numbers.html] , I was considering dumping either my Times online
The Two Direction Era of Publishing Paid Members Public
I couldn’t help but chuckle, as two stories came to my attention in a very short period of time: - [Telegraph Plans to Charge for Online Content [£]](http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c1b70b9e-fc8b-11df-a9c5-00144feab49a.html) – The *FT* reports that *The Telegraph* is contemplating some sort of paywall, next
Paywalls and the problem of competition Paid Members Public
Clay Shirky has brought forth another long piece on the economics of the paywall business [http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2010/11/the-times-paywall-and-newsletter-economics/] that’s worth a read. I’d just like to highlight a single sentence, though, as I think it’s a point that’s missed far too
Paywall Quote of the Day Paid Members Public
George Brock [http://georgebrock.net/the-times-paywall-numbers-what-counts-for-what/]: > A prediction: in a year or two, paywall knowledge and software will have advanced so far that we will look back to this point and marvel that anything as crude as a fixed-price, 100% paywall was even thought of.Indeed.
On those Times paywall numbers Paid Members Public
I am surprised by the amount of positive reaction that’s going around to the news that The Times has around 105,000 paying online customers of various stripes. (Full break-down of the numbers.) Partially I’m surprised, because nobody seems to be comparing acquisition cost to revenue, as well
#likeminds - Guy Clapperton Shows Us The Money Paid Members Public
[](https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2010/10/guyclapperton.jpg) [Guy Clapperton](http://homepage.mac.com/guyclapperton/Personalpage), author of [This is Social Media: Tweet, Blog, Link and Post
Low tech solutions to paywall problems Paid Members Public
I confess: for all my “meh” about paywalls, I currently have paid access to The Times’ new websites. There are a couple of bloggers I actively miss, and think *might *be worth the money. Yesterday, I spotted this on Ruth Gledhill’s blog [http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/faith/
