Paying for the feel of the newspaper

Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 22 July, 2009 to the comment subset

From a Daring Fireball article looking at online news revenue models, and the one very obvious, tangible, difference paying for news published in a newspaper has over online news sites:
When you pay a dollar for a newspaper it feels like you’re paying for the actual stack of paper, and it feels like a fair price. [...]

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Google weathers real time storm, newspaper blown away

Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 6 June, 2008 to the comment subset

While the local newspaper I read offers pretty good real time news in regards to extreme weather events, such as storms, Scott Karp found The Washington Post’s recent coverage of, and access to, news of a local storm left much to be desired.
While he feels The Washington Post has a very helpful weather blog, which [...]

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The Vine: new youth news website

Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 9 April, 2008 to the comment subset

Fairfax unveils youth news website
So this is citizen journalism! Australian newspaper publishers Fairfax today launched The Vine, an online news service especially for Generation Y readers.
Unlike traditional news services, The Vine encourages reader participation (user contributed content) by promising members the possibility of “fifteen megabytes of fame”, according to Fairfax senior product manager, Cinnamon Pollard.
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Blogging and the demise of newspapers

Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 10 January, 2008 to the comment subset

When it was established that I was the only “blogger” at the table the other evening, the assumptions I was a walking font of knowledge on all matters bloggy were not far behind.
Mind you some of the questions were interesting, including “do you think blogging will bring about the demise of newspapers?”
Now there’s something that [...]

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