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Its a tough decision for any newspaper to make. En...

2011-04-05T03:15:30.116-10:00

Its a tough decision for any newspaper to make. Entering the on-line market costs a fortune.

I have an IPad but have never subscribed to on-line magazines / newspapers. I think paper print will have some worth for quite a while due to its convenience.

I would never take an ipad most places due to it's cost!

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2011-02-10T03:38:51.994-10:00

I bet moving from the rockies to Hawaii was one of the best things you ahve ever done. Do you miss the newspaper though, I used to work in local press and it was great - a newspaper team offers a great working environment and |I miss that now that I work from home. If i could go back - just for one day a week I would! Toni - Tenerifeholidays.co.uk

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2010-10-18T23:26:53.404-10:00

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2010-06-11T03:41:13.232-10:00

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2009-11-05T06:21:10.582-10:00

We wished we had been able to get to you last winter -- we've been working on a solution for newspapers and feel we're getting close -- www.ournetnews.com --

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2009-10-12T20:34:00.369-10:00

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2009-10-11T15:19:48.324-10:00

For many years I sat at my kitchen table every morning with a cup of coffee and the SF Chronicle. A few years ago I saw a reference online to a column by Tom Friedman of New York Times. I went to the Times link but I had to pay $14.95/year to get to that column. I like Friedman and some of the other columnists so I paid. Now it is free but the truth is, if they wanted me to, pay again, I would. I continued to read the Chron and then shortly after being told I was losing my job, I got a bill for the Chron that was significantly higher and I thought, this is an expense I should see if I can do without by reading online. I tried reading the SF Chronicle online and found it unappealing. So I tried the NYT -- now I get up, get my coffee and go to the computer. I think the NYT has quality content not available elsewhere. I'd pay to see the Mark Bittman videos any day. I think the NYT online is a great resource. If I don't know a word, I highlight it and I get the definition and hear it pronounced. I put up with with flash ads as the price of reading the NYT free. I think there are opportunities for news organizations to offer content not available elsewhere. And I think people will pay for it. My preference now that I've tried it is online. Send me a bill.

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2009-10-08T21:12:30.879-10:00

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My dad used to read the Miami News every night whe...

2009-10-05T15:37:33.444-10:00

My dad used to read the Miami News every night when he got home at 6. Here it's 6:30 and I haven't even left the office yet. And on top of that, I'm commuting in from Tucson to Phoenix, so on the 4 nights a week that I do get to stay at home, I don't get home till 8 or 9.

I do get the weekend Arizona Daily Star. They've had a really good running story about Arizona Game & Fish killing off the last known jaguar in the US. They studied it to death and put it down because they thought it was in kidney failure. Last week, after they interviewed a biologist at the UA who did an autopsy and reported no signs of kidney failure, the UA lab director "clarified" his policy regarding public statements: no public statements. I really appreciate the efforts that the reporters put into this story, and it's great to get an update on the weekend when I have time to sit down and read it.

Sounds like a bunch of clueless rich morons couldn...

2009-10-02T11:28:59.552-10:00

Sounds like a bunch of clueless rich morons couldn't let go of their cash cow until it was taken from them by we the people. Here is a list of REAL things you need to know:

1. You cannot charge for content. People won't pay for it because they can get it in a thousand places. You MUST get your revenue from advertising.

2. If you want to build a community that actually wants to use your site, you CANNOT require registration or logging in, you MUST provide anonymous commenting. Yeah, that's scary, but pull your huevos out of you wife's purse and just do it.

3. Investigative journalism and expose's of government corruption and waste (a la Woodward and Bernstein) is the ONLY area where "professional" journalists have an advantage over the rest of the people publishing their opinions on the web. We aren't interested in hearing how great government is doing, we can go to THEIR website for propaganda. We want people with guts to go after the rich and powerful; kind of tough when you are OWNED by the rich and powerful.

4. When "professional" journalists DO write something, proof read it!! Over and over I see AP stories with poor grammar and spelling, and these are supposed to be professionals? I can get crap spelling and grammar from any blogging moron.

5. Learn how to build a web site people WANT to look at. Most media companies who go to the web build the crappiest, most bandwidth intensive pieces of junk I have ever seen. DON'T use animated gifs, DON'T play flash unless a reader clicks play, and DO provide a text transcript of every story, especially the video ones. Not everyone has broadband (due to the ridiculous monopolies on internet access, we need to nationalize the internet and telecommunications infrastructure) and they would like to be able to read the content of the video instead of waiting hours to play it.

6. Learn how to do CROSS-BROWSER development. Saying "we design for IE because it has 80% (or whatever) market share and screw the rest" is a great way to not only loose potential customers, but also it will cost you more to run the site because every time a new version of IE comes out your site will break and require many hours of redesign and testing to make it work again.

Hope these hints help, because you need all you can get. By the way, there is still a market for print newspapers; I need something to potty train my puppy on.

Newspapers are worthless to me. I get all my news...

2009-10-02T09:06:32.583-10:00

Newspapers are worthless to me. I get all my news online and/or TV. I also ignore any news site that doesn't allow the readers (casual readers, I don't feel the need to sign in or create an account) to comment directly on the article.

The news is so biased most if not all have some sort of agenda. I don't need or want your agenda. User comments allow for other points of view.

Notice during the bush years, the war in iraq was bad and our troops are dying. Now that the other side is in power, you don't hear a peep.

The news/media is supposed to be the watchdog of the government. Informing us, the masses, when the government is doing something wrong or unconstitutional. Instead they have turned into the government's lap dog. No one mentions that the war in Iraq, right or wrong, is unconstitutional. (Any law allowing the president to send our troops to another country without a declaration of war is unconsitutional.)

Paywalls? Paywalls!? The value of most news carri...

2009-10-02T08:35:03.897-10:00

Paywalls? Paywalls!?

The value of most news carried by your average newspaper doesn't come from hearing the news, but from the ability to share the news with other people. A paywall makes the product less valuable, while charging more for it!

El Pais, the biggest newspaper in Spain, built a paywall about 6 years ago. Their ad revenue dried up as their viewership shrank and shrank, because for most people, the third retelling of the most important stories was not really any worse than full access to the newspaper. Years later, they opened their site again, but now their competition has surpassed them, and it will take a decade to catch up.

The creation of newspaper articles and the aggregation of those articles into something a user might want to see are two different businesses on the web. Until journalists realize the difference, and treat them both separately, they will not solve the problem, and bloggers will eat them alive.

I agree with Jay Rosen, that was a tour de force.
I'm curious what the reaction was, both in questions and comments you got from people after. I imagine much of the speech must have helped people understand more of how newspapers got where they are given that the average Google employee age is so young.

Several comments. First, Dean Singleton STILL doe...

2009-09-30T20:30:31.579-10:00

Several comments.

First, Dean Singleton STILL doesn't understand the Web, and as head of the AP, that's catastrophic.

Second, it's called paywalls. The Aug/Sept AJR had a great article on how more smaller-level dailies are doing it. Deano could be proactive on this, tying paywalls for AP content to new contracts with Google, Yahoo, et al, but he remains asleep at the switch.

Beyond "folding," the reason many newspapers today are struggling, as I speak from a professional background, is manifold, and not primarily, in many cases, due to the Internet.

Rather, you have things like crooked owners (Chi Sun-Times), the biz angle leading to LBO artists (Sam Zell/Chi Trib), family feud fallout (Freedom Comm/OC Register), overvaluing newspapers as capital investments a decade ago, and more.

Add in the recession's huge ad drop-off.

Include many companies indeed being clueless about the Internet and how to "monetize" it, and it's no wonder papers struggle.

Doubly add in the fact that many ad reps don't kow how to sell to the Web.

Triply add in that things like host files and ad-block add-ons let people like me avoid most newspaper ads.

Quadruply add in that many newspaper chains don't get the three things I just listed.

Put up paywalls. Including for the bloggers. Bloggers making real money from blogging will realize they're hooked, or petard-hoist.

Hi, it's difficult to read the Scribd document...

2009-09-30T09:56:05.989-10:00

Hi, it's difficult to read the Scribd document. Can you maybe provide it at the site Scribd.com, so one can read it in full-screen mode?