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| Sunday, February 5, 2006 |
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Big news on the Fon front 
Blogger takeover of major newspapers begins
| | THE NEWSPAPER you are reading has been lovingly compiled by hundreds of humans who urinated into plastic measuring cups for the privilege of bringing it to you. From His cup runneth over with annoyance, by Matt Welch, now assistant editorial page editor of he LA Times. Fortunately, sez Matt, When it comes to every substance except red wine and Pacifico, I'm basically a Mormon. |
| | Hey Matt, can you get the paper to finally pull its archives out from behind the paywall? Logic here and here. For those too lazy click, here's the gist: |
| | Here's where I think we'll end up: Charge for the news, recycle the olds. That's the same business we've always had in the daily print news business, and I think it will leverage just fine on the Web. |
| | The only problem with that is having no live Web presence, right? So, a suggestion: take everything but breaking news off the home page (which is way too crapped up with clutter anyway). Make it clear that subscribers get to see the rest of today's news today. Make links to today's news work tomorrow, even if only subscribers see those links today. |
| | That way the paywall for each story or column is up only for 24 hours, and down for the rest of time. That way the paper gets plenty of authority and influence from having its full archives on the Web in searchable and linkable form. News customers get to pay for what they've always paid for. And hey, maybe once the high value of fresh news gets full respect from its producers, the papers will start making customers out of its consumers. |
| | And I'll betcha there's more money in selling advertising on exposed archives than in selling them to readers. |
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| | It's still too hard to write, read and find syndicated copy. At least for civilians. Sez Rex, I'm dumbfounded by how few non-techy people I know use newsreaders. |
| | Dave has a good idea for fixing a big finding problem, and maybe a reading problem along with it. A pull-quote: In order for RSS to grow to the next level, tech companies have to stop seeking lock-in on subscriptions. He nominates My.Yahoo as a home (or a responsible party) for running a central service. My own additional thoughts are in the comments over there. |
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