Friday, April 30, 2010
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
"Ander Monson’s ‘Vanishing Point’: The Future of the Book - Paper Cuts Blog" - NYTimes.com
This interlinking of text and electronics is where I have long urged newspapers to go, and so few, if any, have yet arrived.
Monday, April 26, 2010
Friday, April 23, 2010
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Friday, April 16, 2010
Comments - how can there be a limit?
I was going to post a comment on the New York Times website to alert them to the planned closing of Austrian airspace tonight. The NYT has a great colleciton of current information on many airports but at this writing, Austrian aireports are not included. So here is what I saw on the page when I clicked to add the note:
"readers' comments
Volcanic Ash to Curtail Air Traffic Into Midday FridayBack to Article »
By NICOLA CLARK and LIZ ROBBINS
The plume of ash from a volcano in Iceland forced aviation authorities to order the restrictions, affecting thousands of flights in a wide arc from Ireland to Scandinavia.
Are you affected by the travel disruptions? Share your experience.
Comments are no longer being accepted."
I added the bold face for the last line. Is that dumb or what on the part of the Times? A great example of some techie at the Times not asking reporters if they wanted to maintain a flow of input from readers, I bet.
"readers' comments
Volcanic Ash to Curtail Air Traffic Into Midday FridayBack to Article »
By NICOLA CLARK and LIZ ROBBINS
The plume of ash from a volcano in Iceland forced aviation authorities to order the restrictions, affecting thousands of flights in a wide arc from Ireland to Scandinavia.
Are you affected by the travel disruptions? Share your experience.
Comments are no longer being accepted."
I added the bold face for the last line. Is that dumb or what on the part of the Times? A great example of some techie at the Times not asking reporters if they wanted to maintain a flow of input from readers, I bet.
Monday, April 12, 2010
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Doctor and Patient - Doctors and Patients, Lost in Paperwork - NYTimes.com
Part of the societal evolution affecting printed newspapers are the changing balances for so many people between what they read and what they write. Historically, apart from education, much of what most people did was to read, in part because writing always required so much more of an effort - the pen that needed to refilled, the pager that needed to be had, the mistakes that needed to be corrected, etc. That eveolved with technology as writing instruments got better, easier and cheper. It also evolved as machines have made it easier to write from typewriters to computer and handheld devices.
So, too, professional work has evolved in a similar but not exactly parallel fashion.
Printed newspapers, however, have taken little of this into account except in pre-press, as newspapers call it, and general conputeriszaiton.
How, in the case of this linked story, does a newspaper become the best friend of the young doctor suffering udner the weight of kestroking deands. If newspapers cannot see a way to help, they ought not be in their business.
So, too, professional work has evolved in a similar but not exactly parallel fashion.
Printed newspapers, however, have taken little of this into account except in pre-press, as newspapers call it, and general conputeriszaiton.
How, in the case of this linked story, does a newspaper become the best friend of the young doctor suffering udner the weight of kestroking deands. If newspapers cannot see a way to help, they ought not be in their business.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Monday, April 5, 2010
Sunday, April 4, 2010
"Weighty Dramas Flourish on Cable" - NYTimes.com
What could printed newspapers learn from this? Think again.
Another point of sale almost going away....
We have had a nice little newsstand/shop closest to our home in Nice. They sold a huge array of magazines, all of the national French papers and many from other countries.
It is in the process of changing owners and changing more. They have stopped selling overseas newspapers for the moment and all magazines. The only paper available there is the local Nice Matin. Instead of the magazines, the shelves have lettuce, artichokes and those sorts of things on offer.
The current owners are very unhappy about how this has evolved; in their case, they wanted to stay but could not.
In mid April, they are supposed to start selling more newspapers again, but one will have to wait to see if this happens.
It is sad to see so many newspaepr and printed publications points of sale disappearing so very fast here.
It is in the process of changing owners and changing more. They have stopped selling overseas newspapers for the moment and all magazines. The only paper available there is the local Nice Matin. Instead of the magazines, the shelves have lettuce, artichokes and those sorts of things on offer.
The current owners are very unhappy about how this has evolved; in their case, they wanted to stay but could not.
In mid April, they are supposed to start selling more newspapers again, but one will have to wait to see if this happens.
It is sad to see so many newspaepr and printed publications points of sale disappearing so very fast here.
Friday, April 2, 2010
"A nos internautes..." - nicematin.com
The local newspaper, Nice-Matin, is on strike and there are no printed copies for sale today. Where is the note to print readers on the website reporting on this? It's astounding that newspapers don't understand that most people by now live in some portion of the print and electronic at the same time.
Permanent record...
I watched a brief item this morning on the electronic book market in France. It is now less than 1%. Will it grow to talke over print? That's the debate of the momentl There are those who assume it will happen and those who say that people will never give up the desire for the "feel" of the printed book.
For newspapers, I wonder where they fit? First rough drafts of history to be discarded and replaced by a book. A website?
I think we need to rethink the whole order of our information and where we want it to be. Is paper more permanent than an electronic record?
How could nrwspapers make more of this?
Could they talk about how accurate yesterday's newspaepr was compared to yesterday's rants and blog posts?
Is there a way to combine the pernanence of the book with the paper of the newspaper and make it just more important than even its own self on the web?
For newspapers, I wonder where they fit? First rough drafts of history to be discarded and replaced by a book. A website?
I think we need to rethink the whole order of our information and where we want it to be. Is paper more permanent than an electronic record?
How could nrwspapers make more of this?
Could they talk about how accurate yesterday's newspaepr was compared to yesterday's rants and blog posts?
Is there a way to combine the pernanence of the book with the paper of the newspaper and make it just more important than even its own self on the web?
Thursday, April 1, 2010
"Reflections of a Newsosaur: How to plug the $17B newspaper sales gap"
I gave this same advice to newspapers long before the internet appeared, back when we were talking about proprietary electronic information services of one sort or another. They did not take the advice then and they will not now, I fear.
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