Reading list: Does anyone pay for content?
Just doing some year-end house-keeping. I’d come across these links — particularly the ones about paying for content — and neglected to pass them along. I have had this conversation with colleagues (about whether readers have actually paid for content), particularly in the context of newspaper journalism. This item from a few months ago was an interesting analysis of the question. Plus, a counterpoint to the item…and a few other miscellaneous posts.
Post-Medium Publishing
An excellent analysis of whether people actually pay for content. I agree with a lot of this post; some of my colleagues look at me like I’m crazy.
Etaoin Shrdlu: Seminal work or sloppy thinking?
Jeff Jarvis has already anointed it as “seminal” and reprinted more than 350 words of Paul Graham’s Post Medium Publishing, so let me try and bring something different to the party: some examples of sloppy thinking and errors in the piece.
Clay Shirky: Let a thousand flowers bloom to replace newspapers; don’t build a paywall around a public good
Nieman Journalism Lab
Full transcript and audio from Shirky’s remarks.
The Beginner’s Guide to Tricking Out Your WordPress Blog
Lifehacker
Great tips for setting up your WP blog and for deciding which plugins to grab.
Austin police fed up with bogus online comments
www.policeone.com
Perhaps not the best way to deal with attacks on you in social media sites? Perhaps engage instead of litigate?
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