Comments on: Clay Shirky on Newspapers: How the Unthinkable Happened

By: Nathan R

Nathan R — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:18:00 +0000

A fitting day to post this. Today, the last print edition of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer was put to bed. The P-I was the oldest newspaper in the city at 164 years of age. It will continue as an on-line only paper, the largest paper to do so. I’m sure many more will follow in these tough economic times.

By: Hurricane

Hurricane — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:22:00 +0000

It would be helpful if I knew my local rag (Miami Herald) published all the news and not what they see fit to publish in a manner and tone in which they see fit so that the story fits the narrative they are pushing.

I don’t even trust them to get sports scores (they’ve erred a few times with those!) so I will feel no loss nor remose when they go out of business.

By: Julia

Julia — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:16:00 +0000

Pay pal accounts where after reading an article you can click and pay for how much you enjoyed it and how much you can afford…even if people just paid .25 for reading it it would add up…just a thought from a cafe that lets people pick what they will pay.

recaptcha: start profit motivated

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:11:00 +0000

These are very interesting times we live in – and are continuing to evolve. The music industry was the first ‘victim’ of virtual piracy and they showed the exact wrong way of dealing with it. They tried to put the genie back in the bottle by suing the very people who had long supported their form. Obviously this isn’t the answer but what other way is there to make money from creative mediums which can be so easily transferred for free via the internet. Unfortunately I’m not smart enough to have an answer but surely there will be some happy medium that allows the masses to continue to access creative material while the author/creator is compensated.

Anyone have any ideas?