Apple, Don’t Kill Newspapers! Offer In-App Subscriptions

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I’m a huge fan of the Vancouver Sun (Postmedia, really) iPad app, it is (as I said initially) part of my daily routine of reading the news. Now, I know that Postmedia doesn’t push all the articles from the Sun (or other papers) to the app, but that’s okay. Kobo came out with real subscriptions [...]

Gray Lady Down! New York Times Rebuilds the Paywall

Oh New York Times, I know you’re having trouble making ends meet. I know it’s hard to keep up with the costs of dead trees and top notch journalists, but bringing back the pay wall in 2011? Are you kidding? You just want to cut off your links to spite your paper don’t you? Like [...]

That’s One Way To Get People To Stop Reading Your Papers: Microsoft To Help News Corp Get Off Google

I’m not sure if Rupert Murdoch is a brilliant business mind, just doesn’t get the Internet, or just plain nuts. Maybe buying MySpace was a good idea when News Corp bought it, but it certainly isn’t holding much value now. Now with his massive newspaper holdings also having trouble, if his papers are following all [...]

Gutenberg was a blogger

We owe a huge debt to Johannes Gutenberg. Here’s a guy who just wanted to wrestle publication of The Bible out of the hands of The Church and monks and unwittingly (perhaps) set the stage for blogging. The movable type printing press revolutionized how information was disseminated. If you wanted to rail against the government, [...]

Again The Globe & Mail Leads Newspapers Into Uncharted Waters: Mathew Ingram Tapped As Communities Editor

Image by cfarivar via Flickr As conservative as Canadian business have been jumping onto the Web 2.0-Social Media bandwagon, the Globe & Mail newspaper has been ahead of the curve. Yes, they kept a walled garden up for a while, but Mathew Ingram has been blogging there for years now and maintaining his own personal [...]

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