links for 2009-02-12

Mike Masnickin kriittinen kommentti keskusteluun uutisjournalismin maksullisuudesta verkossa. Kommentin ydin: The problem is that it's not the reporting that's attracting the community. It's the community. For way too long, the newspapers have ignored or diminished the role of the community. They were forgetting that, in the end, it really is the community that's their "product." They sell the attention of that community. But, for years, they had little to no competition in doing so. That meant they could basically ignore serving the community… and they did. Now that there are sites that actually do serve the community, people prefer going to them than the sites that treated the "community" like lower class riffraff to be kept away. Funny how that works.

Keskustelua sanomalehtien sisällön maksullisuudesta verkossa

Kun mikromaksaminen ei toimi journalistisen sisällön maksamisesta verkossa, tässä toisenlainen idea, vapaaehtoiseen tippaukseen perustuva.

An extensive presentation about Obama's overall Internet strategy. This presentation was done by Igor Beuker of viralblog.com, with research by Paul van Veenendaal – who apparently used over 250 different sources to create this impressive slideshow.

Talven kestopuheenaihe jatkuu: miten uutisjournalismin sisällöstä voitaisiin saada netissä maksullinen tuote vai voidaanko lainkaan. "In other words, if my local paper goes paid tomorrow, there are at least four television stations with web sites that would be happy to take its turn-away traffic."