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| Wednesday, January 23, 2002 |
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Whacks poetic 
Discontent
| | Is it worth lost opportunity for full stature in the Reference Section for Civilization that the Web in fact is, to bury the Times' archival stories where they can only be found by people who pay for them? |
| | The Times, like all papers, is worth full value on the day it is printed. After that it's fishwrap. |
| | Still it's hard for publishers to get their heads around the fact that what makes their 'content' valuable isn't its nature as a commodity (which the contemptible term 'content' implies), but its timeliness, its authority, and its expression (on paper, today, on doorsteps and on newsstands). That's it. Everything else is gravy. The Times will be worth more as a paper if its archives are exposed on the Web — far more, even in the $millions, than the paper is making by selling old stories for $2.95 apiece. |
| | Another suggestion for Martin: drop the membership/authentication thing. It's a pain in the ass, does nothing for readers and, I suspect, does little in reality for NYTd. |
| | I say this as somebody who pays for the daily paper, even though I also get it for free on the Web, and even though I think Martin's people do a terrific job on the Web. |
| | And I live in California, by the way. |
Meat
| | Mike is looking again into the issues of Responsibility and blogging. He's good at that shit. I think again it's a lot like ham radio: a lot of conversations about this and that, interrupted by calls to Serious Work nobody else is as well-positioned to do. |
Belated rollery
| | I somehow neglected to roll the latest JOHO, which points to this in its Anals of Marketing feature. Which is funny as shit, so I'll probably plug it in Linux Journal. |
Cluelog
If you care enough to mail the very beast
| | Jeremy White of CodeWeavers, who is a lead hacker on the Wine Project, suggests we exercise our rights — nay, our responsibilities — under the Tunney Act, to submit our opinions about the feds proposed settlement with Microsoft. He's got a point and makes it well. Read it. |
Hello?
| | Bubba Blog's referer log says people are arriving from google searches that come up as mailtos when you click on them. Also that searches for his blog on Google get sent to mine. I'm sure that's an inbound link quotient algorithm thing. |
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