Comments on: Why subscribe to newspapers any more? http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060418/3182/ Technology, music, video, art, news, reviews and muse on the web Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:26:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: The newspapers are dying meme must be a spring thing » Make You Go Hmm http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060418/3182/#comment-481276 The newspapers are dying meme must be a spring thing » Make You Go Hmm Sun, 25 Mar 2007 19:14:44 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060418/3182/#comment-481276 [...] Lots of bloggers are covering this again or anew, but rather than repeat my take, I’ll point to last year’s post on the same subject: Why subscribe to newspapers any more? Don Dodge indicates he wrote about this a year ago too. Cyclical I tell you, cyclical. [...] […] Lots of bloggers are covering this again or anew, but rather than repeat my take, I’ll point to last year’s post on the same subject: Why subscribe to newspapers any more? Don Dodge indicates he wrote about this a year ago too. Cyclical I tell you, cyclical. […]

]]> By: Yahoo courts Newspapers with ad and content deal, also forms alliance with answers.com » Make You Go Hmm http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060418/3182/#comment-346581 Yahoo courts Newspapers with ad and content deal, also forms alliance with answers.com » Make You Go Hmm Wed, 22 Nov 2006 13:06:51 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060418/3182/#comment-346581 [...] I’m not sure who this deal helps more, a print newspaper business moving (begrudgingly?) to the web or Yahoo. And why are they using ads from Yahoo Local and not Yahoo Publisher? We still don’t subscribe to any newspapers, you? [...] […] I’m not sure who this deal helps more, a print newspaper business moving (begrudgingly?) to the web or Yahoo. And why are they using ads from Yahoo Local and not Yahoo Publisher? We still don’t subscribe to any newspapers, you? […]

]]> By: TDavid http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060418/3182/#comment-299945 TDavid Wed, 13 Sep 2006 02:50:26 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060418/3182/#comment-299945 Hello Mike - good questions, let me see if I can take your points one by one. <b>"depending on [the web] for news seems to be very restrictive and time-consuming"</b> No way. RSS makes finding news by both date and relevancy (keyword) a snap <b>"Do you have favorite sites for general news?"</b> news.google.com, topix.net <b>"Do you keep them because you agree with what they present? Isn’t that limiting?"</b> Since they are aggregators they bring all different kinds of publications. Unlike a newspaper which shows me one story and one point of view, I can see the same story reported many different ways and different angles, which I think makes it less limiting. I don't have any statistics for online news vs. print news beyond what's offered above. I'm sure if you run some Google searches you could come up with something on that. Hello Mike - good questions, let me see if I can take your points one by one.

“depending on [the web] for news seems to be very restrictive and time-consuming”
No way. RSS makes finding news by both date and relevancy (keyword) a snap

“Do you have favorite sites for general news?”
news.google.com, topix.net

“Do you keep them because you agree with what they present? Isn’t that limiting?”
Since they are aggregators they bring all different kinds of publications. Unlike a newspaper which shows me one story and one point of view, I can see the same story reported many different ways and different angles, which I think makes it less limiting.

I don’t have any statistics for online news vs. print news beyond what’s offered above. I’m sure if you run some Google searches you could come up with something on that.

]]> By: Mike Davis http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060418/3182/#comment-299922 Mike Davis Wed, 13 Sep 2006 02:17:27 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060418/3182/#comment-299922 I will agree that the Web offers a wealth of information, but depending on it for news seems to be very restrictive and time-consuming. Do you have favorite sites for general news? Do you keep them because you agree with what they present? Isn't that limiting? Not all newspapers that have web sites charge for access, and that would seem to offer diversity in content. Does anyone have statistics that point toward which papers are successfully integrating print and online services -- by that I mean not losing money on their online divisions? I will agree that the Web offers a wealth of information, but depending on it for news seems to be very restrictive and time-consuming. Do you have favorite sites for general news? Do you keep them because you agree with what they present? Isn’t that limiting? Not all newspapers that have web sites charge for access, and that would seem to offer diversity in content. Does anyone have statistics that point toward which papers are successfully integrating print and online services — by that I mean not losing money on their online divisions?

]]> By: Jack Yan http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060418/3182/#comment-69153 Jack Yan Wed, 19 Apr 2006 06:42:20 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060418/3182/#comment-69153 Thanks, TDavid! Thanks, TDavid!

]]> By: TDavid http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060418/3182/#comment-69070 TDavid Wed, 19 Apr 2006 00:17:40 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060418/3182/#comment-69070 Good advice, Jack. Good advice, Jack.

]]> By: Jack Yan http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060418/3182/#comment-69007 Jack Yan Tue, 18 Apr 2006 22:27:11 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060418/3182/#comment-69007 I say newspapers should give us what they are best at delivering and we regular Joes are not: decent stories, with investigative journalism. Use the web as well, but for the meaty stuff, do a digested version. Otherwise I can’t see a way out. I cancelled my newspaper subscriptions in 1993 because they had the wrong mix of news, and nothing I could not get off a Reuter terminal at university (and, later the web). I say newspapers should give us what they are best at delivering and we regular Joes are not: decent stories, with investigative journalism. Use the web as well, but for the meaty stuff, do a digested version. Otherwise I can’t see a way out. I cancelled my newspaper subscriptions in 1993 because they had the wrong mix of news, and nothing I could not get off a Reuter terminal at university (and, later the web).

]]> By: Matt Wardlaw http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060418/3182/#comment-69005 Matt Wardlaw Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:33:36 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060418/3182/#comment-69005 haha - thanks for the Ringworm comments - that show was indeed off the hook. The rulebook went straight out the window for that one. But the old school stuff that we played, was definitely fun, for sure. haha - thanks for the Ringworm comments - that show was indeed off the hook. The rulebook went straight out the window for that one. But the old school stuff that we played, was definitely fun, for sure.

]]> By: StrayPackets http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060418/3182/#comment-69003 StrayPackets Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:02:26 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060418/3182/#comment-69003 <strong>Newspaper Profits Down, Blogger Revelry Ensues</strong> The true believers contingent of the blogging tribe enjoys pouncing on any news of shrinking newspaper profits as an occasion for celebration, asking how such dinosaurs can remain in business, since we all know that it is all available on... Newspaper Profits Down, Blogger Revelry Ensues

The true believers contingent of the blogging tribe enjoys pouncing on any news of shrinking newspaper profits as an occasion for celebration, asking how such dinosaurs can remain in business, since we all know that it is all available on…

]]> By: Kathryn Brenner http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060418/3182/#comment-69000 Kathryn Brenner Tue, 18 Apr 2006 19:35:16 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060418/3182/#comment-69000 And then there are *fine* publications like The Chronicle (Lewis County) that want to charge you $105/year to get the print AND see the same content on-line. You can't see much of any on-line content unless you are a print subscriber. Even the Daily Zero in Oly gives you full on-line content free. Nothing is more annoying to me than (Headline) "Crash kills small child SATURDAY INCIDENT: Accident injures four others" ... click for the story and get "Subscriber access only" Even better... Restaurant Inspection Scores... subscriber access only. Now THAT makes sense. What if I already used Wednesday's paper in the bird cage? Good-bye Chronline, Hello e-coli. What is the point of them even having a website? And then there are *fine* publications like The Chronicle (Lewis County) that want to charge you $105/year to get the print AND see the same content on-line. You can’t see much of any on-line content unless you are a print subscriber. Even the Daily Zero in Oly gives you full on-line content free. Nothing is more annoying to me than (Headline)
“Crash kills small child
SATURDAY INCIDENT: Accident injures four others” … click for the story and get “Subscriber access only”

Even better… Restaurant Inspection Scores… subscriber access only. Now THAT makes sense. What if I already used Wednesday’s paper in the bird cage? Good-bye Chronline, Hello e-coli.

What is the point of them even having a website?

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