,[...] rebuildingmedia.corante.com is one another great source of information on this issue,[...]

Great article! This seems like a no-brainer to me and if major publishers don't make these rather simple changes in their business models, they absolutely deserve to lose their business. My opinion is that there will always be demand for the nostalgia of paper print, albeit a smaller niche as the future progresses. For now, I am not impressed enough with the limited capabilities of handheld e-book readers to buy one and commit to digital books. My laptop is an inconvenient way to read e-books (relative to a light-weight, ultra-portable paper book) because of it's awkwardness, battery limitations and cumbersome size. The only limitation keeping my iPhone from being the ideal e-book reader (within the constraints of currently available technology) is its too-small screen size. Apple designers take note.

Hey, I read a lot of blogs on a daily basis and for the most part, people lack substance but, I just wanted to make a quick comment to say GREAT blog!.....I"ll be checking in on a regularly now....Keep up the good work! :) - Marc Shaw

Читать новые посты проще, чем чем подписаться на ленту, бред, юзаю opera 10

Между прочим, лучший способ защитить себя от прослушки - задействовать Подавитель мобильной связи

fnzlkashrgbt

Надеюсь, остальные записи окажутся такими же интересными!

Если у тебя нет времени на постоянные отношения с девушкой – она требует внимания, подарков предложения, наконец – но ты, и это естественно, хочешь секса, твое место здесь с нами. Мы – это огромное сообщество людей, которые «за» свободные отношения, за эксперименты в постели (включая самые безбашенные) и частую смену партнеров. Это классно! Поверь нам и заходи знакомиться!

Some nice "food for thought" but what's your answer to the problem? I do have what I feel is the "solution" and feel it's becoming so much more "evident" every day ....You may even find the time to catch my own (unqualified) "thoughts" (and maybe the answers) in my recent posts made, today. http://www.sharecafe.com.au/board_postview.asp?a=PVS&postID=487540&boardID=2117&sym=LOK And my "Newspapers, Google and the Future..", over on Seeking Alpha, here: http://seekingalpha.com/instablog/36191-lookingconfident/13763-newspapers-google-and-the-future Cheers! LC

Sir, this article is the best. I translated the article in Marathi[my mother tongue] & taught my student What is media? How to define New Media?

Great post! I’ll subscribe right now wth my feedreader software!

Наверное, это один из самых интересных блогов, которые я когда-либо видел :). Занимательные статьи, Интересные комментарии. Так держать! :)

Friend or enemy to whom? Clearly Google is a boon to every user of the Internet. Its ads are far less intrusive than the minutes of commercial interruption thrown into any news-- or other-- show by all broadcasters and most cable channels. They are less "in your face" than ads that subsidize the newspapers and magazines we pay for. To those folks, yes, they are a threat. And perhaps present an opportunity. To everyone else, a welcome addition to our information resources.

Действительно очень прикольный блог! Спасибо огромное и… разумеется, пишите еще!

I know I'm commenting almost a year later and no one may ever see this, but... What ever happened to Part 3?

Пока успел прочитать только эту одну статью, если и все остальное также хорошо, то автору респект :)

Unlike this article, the Wall Street Journal article is extremely inaccurate in how they portray the hearing. The conclusion that one gets reading it is that Senator Kerry and the rest of that sub-committee are speaking of a bailout - something never mentioned in the hearing. In addition in a bizarre paragraph, they twist Senator Kerry's reference to the media as the fourth estate, wording that has been used since the 19th century to refer to a free press as a check on government, to somehow mean he favors government influenced media. (The fact is that he was a co-sponsor in 2005 to a Lautenberg bill that would outlaw government agencies from paying for propaganda - as various Bush agencies did in 2004.) I watched the hearing and to me one good thing was that it got some people from the MSM and some news aggregators together. What seems clear is that it would be impossible to fund a newsroom on the revenues that newspapers can currently get from online viewing of their newspapers. However, Google News and other aggregators need the content from news rooms to function. Here is a link to a Washington Post article that explains that it was legislation that defined the current playing field - where Google et al flourish and newspapers fail. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/15/AR2009051503000.html Where other than the Commerce Committee's sub-committee on Communications should this occur? It also is highly likely that plans for this hearing were initiated before the Boston Globe's plight was known. In addition, though the BG editorial board has always endorsed him, their reporting has often been pretty weak. I seriously doubt that there are many papers in this country where a reporter would have gotten away with accusing a 4 term Senator just after he announced that he would soon be treated for cancer of not being honest because he had not told him this 2 weeks before he had told all of his family and close friends. This is clearly not favoritism.

Ben, couldn't agree more. In fact, The Wall Street Journal online proves your point.

As I consistently remind students, publishers-- anyone playing around in this sandbox-- the target market is not "Americans" or "people" or "readers." It is "some" Americans or people or readers or viewers or listeners. To be more specific, the "some" need only be "enough" readers. So when you write "we'll find out if J.O. is right that Americans will pay for journalism" what is critical is that some-- or enough-- will pay. What that number is depends on both the cost of providing the service and the price users are asked to pay. But it will invariably be a small subset of the audience for the same information if free. I'm optimistic that the benefits of quality journalism will appeal to a minority of the population -- but large enough in absolute numbers -- that will make it a viable business for more than one provider.

I've been gettin the daily online Sporting News for appox a year and yesterday it stopped for the first time since I started the serived. Please explain or kindly just renew my free online Sporting news email. Thank you.

Очень полезно

Dorian: I haven't formed a strong opinion on this yet either, but I do find it interesting at addrressing: - News websites' need for more revenue. - Big news websites need to better control the discussions and comment threads that get out of control when no staff are participating to keep things under control, and the conversation is so large and out of control that it ends up serving no one. Perhaps there are other ways than charging money directly. But I think it's worth spending time on devising ways to create and maintain online forums where intelligent people can gather to solve problems with all the noise kept out. I'm not saying every online forum should be that way, but there's value in figuring out how to develop some that accomplish public good. If you've read the classic sci-fi book Ender's Game by Scot Orson Card, you'll know what I'm suggesting. In his vision, a series of public nets solve the world's problems by only the "right", smartest people being invited to participate; some participants are even allowed to be anonymous, but allowed in based solely on the quality of their content/intellect. Pretty idealistic, but who knows? Maybe we'll get there someday.

how to contact you to exchange links?

до вас походу ап гугла еще не дошел

I largely agree with Ben's analysis. What's exciting is the way that new media approaches and strategies can emerge to replace old ways of transmitting news and content. But will there be enough people on the ground who will actually gather and report the news? Or will the new media simply expand the current contentless talking heads approach to news? Will there be enough staff to track local politics and hold officials accountable? Will wrongdoing be exposed? If online news services can replace the essential local news that papers like the Ann Arbor News have provided, then the transition may well result in the positives that Ben mentions. As someone who still likes the feel of the newspaper, I'm skeptical. But my children, no doubt, will not mourn the demise of any newspaper. They simply don't have the investment in it that I do. PDJ