Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/28

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Subject: [Leica] OT: Yawn
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:58:36 +0530
References: <AC32BFE9-42A5-4589-A176-C5210D049D12@frozenlight.eu> <005901ca9f8e$89c79010$80f510ac@chris0436b6050> <3cad89991001272007l5d3b602s62d383148a74cc54@mail.gmail.com> <C4ED9FC6-56F8-4003-9C54-E8C0055DB0C8@embarqmail.com> <3cad89991001272050w302dc1a7g37fa3733a3fc78ca@mail.gmail.com> <AF51F1193EE1BE0130A2960D@hindolveston.reid.org> <4cfa589b1001272143n1aadc6f4id379ef1a21403f05@mail.gmail.com> <21B4855F-4E36-44C5-B562-F56D20CBCE58@frozenlight.eu>

On the topic of paid for access:

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/26/how-to-make-readers-pay-happily/?8ty&emc=ty

Cheers
Jayanand

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> 
wrote:
> Financial Times charges for access to its web edition. I read somewhere 
> that NYT is planning to do that as well, as are Murdoch's papers. I would 
> not pay for the latter, but I would pay for the NYT or another quality 
> newspaper if that was the only way to access it on the web. I hope that 
> there are enough people like me, combined with revenue from online 
> advertising, to replace the print sales and enable the papers to survive.
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
>
> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
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>
>
> On Jan 28, 2010, at 6:43 AM, Adam Bridge wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 9:35 PM, Brian Reid <reid at 
>> mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm probably going to buy one to see what it's like to read a newspaper 
>>> on
>>> one. I'm sure I'll find some use for it around the house if it turns out 
>>> not
>>> to mix well with an armchair and a mug of strong black New Guinea 
>>> Highlands
>>> coffee. I already have enough computers.
>>>
>>
>> I think it's less a computer, as you and I have known them, as it is a
>> player for media, for games, for utilities, but not for the
>> wide-spectrum of tasks that our laptops or desktops are.
>>
>> Not that the power isn't there - by the standard of say 5 years ago
>> this is a fast machine - but that it's focused.
>>
>> I'm desperately hoping that it will help the newspapers find working
>> model that keeps them afloat. The blog sites just don't have the
>> journalist background that print media has.
>>
>> There's no such thing as a free lunch. Right now a whole generation
>> feels that news should be free, or paid for by ads. I think this is a
>> broken way to think but I'm a voice in the wind.
>>
>> Adam
>>
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