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I’m glad to have visited your blog and good to kno...

2009-11-15T19:16:17.368-10:00

I’m glad to have visited your blog and good to know you! I find it interesting and informative.

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A pretty big buzzword in the online community righ...

2009-08-17T05:52:16.602-10:00

A pretty big buzzword in the online community right now is "freemium" which I think isn't a terrible idea for newspapers.

Not a big fan of paywalls of any size (as a user, i'll find my info elsewhere), but what freemium does is give the users 100% of the content they're used to for free, but if they want more comprehensive content or different content streams or maybe some sort of app or database model, they pay a reasonable amount for it.

I'm not talking about just pay archives, because pay archives are ridiculous in the age of Google. This would have to be legitimate extras.

-Bryan Robinson (twitter.com/brob)

I agree with you about the NYTimes, Martin. That&#...

2009-08-06T10:02:41.991-10:00

I agree with you about the NYTimes, Martin. That's why I think the membership model has possibilities. It would put news organizations in the position of finding out what users want from them and delivering it, many times as a value-added service.

Thanks John. With regard to my paywall comment, I...

2009-08-06T07:20:50.702-10:00

Thanks John. With regard to my paywall comment, I only meant to indict across-the-board paywall thinking. I agree that a carefully calibrated (to steal a Presidential term) paid content system is worth exploring; in fact it happens to be a feature of the startup outfit I'm involved with. A post or two ago I suggested the NYTimes should be taking such an approach — charging for specific niche content areas — rather than the blanket $50 subscription it was testing in a survey.