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    Image of Jackson West Jackson West
    06/25/09

    In reply to Do We Need a Restraining Order Against Josh Quittner?
    Well, at least now I know who to snub at the Whole Foods in Mill Valley.
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    Image of Motoko Kusanagi Motoko Kusanagi
    06/24/09

    In reply to Do We Need a Restraining Order Against Josh Quittner?
    Time is like the Lotus Notes of media properties.
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    Image of Drunken Economist Drunken Economist
    06/25/09

    @Motoko Kusanagi: So when are you going to mention bynkii.com then?
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    Image of Pinekatz Pinekatz
    06/24/09

    In reply to Do We Need a Restraining Order Against Josh Quittner?
    Owen dished it, too.


    He poked at people, made fun of other journalists, ridiculed people for their physical characteristics and regularly fought with some beloved commenters.


    Ryan, you guys run in a rough crowd!


    Owen will be okay. I kind of hope this turns into a spy v. spy scenario where they regularly light each other on fire.

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    Image of Helman Helman
    06/24/09

    @Pinekatz: Extremely well put, my friend.
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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    06/24/09

    In reply to Do We Need a Restraining Order Against Josh Quittner?
    To answer your question, no, you do not. OT is no longer part of the above "we".
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    Image of unclevanya unclevanya
    06/24/09

    In reply to Do We Need a Restraining Order Against Josh Quittner?
    Not to be a party-pooper, but didn't Owen sort of start it? Who wouldn't take Owen's first article personally, since he apparently had an ax to grind?


    I'm sensing a Perez/Will.I.Am mojo working here, only substitute "nerd" for "gay".


    (I know I'm going to get my head chopped off, but what the hell..work is slow tonight)

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    Image of Helman Helman
    06/24/09

    In reply to Do We Need a Restraining Order Against Josh Quittner?
    No comment.
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    Image of Aaron Altman Aaron Altman
    06/24/09

    @Helman: Heh.
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    Image of Aaron Altman Aaron Altman
    06/24/09

    @Helman: But what an asshole thing for Quittner to do, eh?
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    Image of Helman Helman
    06/24/09

    @Aaron Altman: I've done it in my head.
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    Image of Helman Helman
    06/24/09

    @Aaron Altman: But, ok, yes, it was asshole-y.
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    Image of MisterHippity MisterHippity
    06/24/09

    @Aaron Altman: @Helman:


    Hi guys!


    Coming to the Top Chef Masters live-blog tonight?


    Hope so.

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    Image of MisterHippity MisterHippity
    06/24/09

    @MisterHippity: Um. I think it was asshole-y too.
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    Image of Helman Helman
    06/24/09

    @MisterHippity: It was funny!
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    Image of Sargasm Sargasm
    06/24/09

    @Helman: Your star! It shines so brightly now that somebody's moved on!
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    06/24/09

    In reply to Do We Need a Restraining Order Against Josh Quittner?
    Quality control you pizza-fueled orangutans!


    Where's the video? There's a link down the post that takes us to a review of a sony virtual world.


    How is Second Life these days by the way? Do they have a stable user base or has it gone kaputski? Are they making any money?

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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    02/05/09

    In reply to How Not to Save Newspapers
    i'd pay for stuff that was worth reading


    but the same old, "republicans are telling obama what to do" when obama won and they lost is worthless in print or online


    new model needs to include new content, which has at least glancing contact with reality

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    Image of Figaro Figaro
    02/05/09

    In reply to How Not to Save Newspapers
    Micropayments don't work. They've never worked and never will. So many startups have tried it and failed.


    I bet it has something to do with human psychology... but I can't put my finger on it.

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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    02/05/09

    @Figaro:


    Perhaps someone could set up a basic account with a line of micropayment options, like texting on cell phones.

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    Image of i'm a bottle i'm a bottle
    02/05/09

    In reply to How Not to Save Newspapers
    I think they ought to pay the readers five cents for making it through a Maureen Dowd column.
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    02/05/09

    In reply to How Not to Save Newspapers
    Maybe an all-issue sponsor is the way to go, like that issue of The New Yorker where all the large display ads were from Target.
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    Image of markscottmusic markscottmusic
    02/05/09

    In reply to How Not to Save Newspapers
    I think micro payments are exactly the way NOT to go. You will decrease readership and time on site by making people think before each click "do I really want to pay 3 cents for this story." The beauty of the web (and old fashioned print newspapers and magazines) is that if an article is boring or not what you thought, you move on to another one with nothing lost except the cost of the overall subscription. But if you get burned 10 or 12 times with articles it turns out you didn't want to read but wasted money on anyway, you'll stop going to that site all together. Americans are much happier paying a one-time subscription knowing that during the course of that subscription they will read things that interest them than they are willing to potentially waste money on articles they end up paying for but not wanting to read. Even if the pay-per-story model ends up costing the reader less money, the fact that they may be actively wasting money will be more important to them than passively wasting it.
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    Image of LatestBy LatestBy
    02/05/09

    @markscottmusic: Exactly. And it will mean that less-important-but-drier stories end up getting read less than "Britney in rehab!", which means that over time everything devolves into US Weekly.
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    02/05/09

    @LatestBy: That should be "more important".
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    Image of MrInBetween MrInBetween
    02/05/09

    In reply to How Not to Save Newspapers
    Outstanding post, Owen. And that fish looks unhappy having Friedman and Dowd gumming up its gills.
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    Image of izzyrowlands izzyrowlands
    02/05/09

    In reply to How Not to Save Newspapers
    Whatever you say Mr. Thomas, but that is a pretty sweet cover.
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    02/05/09

    @izzyrowlands:


    Is that a red snapper in there?

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    Image of sample032 sample032
    02/05/09

    @Smitros:


    I bet the Times takes the box.

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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    02/05/09

    @sample032:


    Now that's a find.


    I think taking the box has been the prevailing business model at the Times for a while, alas.

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    Image of nirreskeya nirreskeya
    02/05/09

    @Smitros: Should have been a red herring.
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    02/05/09

    @nirreskeya:


    Ha!


    Or a flounder.

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    Image of ifstone ifstone
    02/05/09

    @izzyrowlands: The legend, "A Modest Proposal" does not belong on the cover, and not on that cover.
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