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    10/28/09

    In reply to Carr vs. Wolff in Superfluous Semantic Smackdown!
    The last time Michael Wolff was in touch with anything contemporary was when he was boffing that junior writer. #arguments
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    10/28/09

    In reply to Carr vs. Wolff in Superfluous Semantic Smackdown!
    Shoot, I think the SF Chron has a great business plan! Fabulous. They set records the last six months for over a quarter drop in circulation, but they raised the price of the paper 33% on the street, so they claim to be swimming in cash. Eventually there will be one old rich diehard on Nob Hill paying $25K per diem for one each and the only autographed copy of the paper that was the Chronicle. #arguments
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    10/28/09

    In reply to Carr vs. Wolff in Superfluous Semantic Smackdown!
    I thought the headline read "Superfluous Semitic Smackdown." Which would have been a different kind of battle entirely. #arguments
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    10/28/09

    In reply to Carr vs. Wolff in Superfluous Semantic Smackdown!
    Did Wolff bring his little chippie? #arguments
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    10/28/09

    In reply to Carr vs. Wolff in Superfluous Semantic Smackdown!
    Michael Wolff needs to get got more often. Carr's a rock star and the only thing he's missing for the gig are Michael Wolff's Steven Tyler-esque lips. A cockwaffle if there ever was one. #arguments
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    05/04/09

    In reply to Why the Large-Format Kindle Is Not a Life Raft for Newspapers
    If i was in college, i could see carrying around all my textbooks and notes in one computronic device -- is this Kindle utilized thusly?
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    05/04/09

    In reply to Why the Large-Format Kindle Is Not a Life Raft for Newspapers
    A Kindle that brought you the full web, even in grayscale, without video and for a price, would be a killer product. You have to wonder why Scamazon hasn't done this for chrissake.


    I'm reading Gawker right now on a heavy laptop that's tethered to an AC outlet and too awkward to take outside on a beautiful day. I print out articles from magazine websites so I can take them with me, and it's a PIA. I have little interest in carrying around a dozen Dan Brown novels, but reference books would be pretty nice.

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    05/04/09

    In reply to Why the Large-Format Kindle Is Not a Life Raft for Newspapers
    Good post, except for the phrase "doing more with less." You don't do more with less. You do less with less. It's like "work smarter, not harder." (my God, if I'd only been working smart all this time, I could be in Tahiti by now!)
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    05/04/09

    In reply to Why the Large-Format Kindle Is Not a Life Raft for Newspapers
    You take five books to the beach? Really? I can barely work through one Gawker article before I'm fried.


    Newspapers are like the ticking biological clock pressing on her live-in boyfriend for a proposal.

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    05/04/09

    In reply to Why the Large-Format Kindle Is Not a Life Raft for Newspapers


    $360 plus tax for the Kindle plus $14 per month for each newspaper.


    This is why Kindle fails.

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    05/04/09

    In reply to Why the Large-Format Kindle Is Not a Life Raft for Newspapers
    It is possible - though not probable - that newspaper and magazine sites will stop allowing free access to current and archived content... which is how they should've done it in the first place if they wanted to survive. Because relying on people to pay hundreds of dollars for a device in order to read stuff you have to subscribe to to get is just fucking stupid.
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    05/04/09

    @Aaron Altman: what if a newspaper device were free, like cellphones (with subscription)?
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    05/04/09

    In reply to Why the Large-Format Kindle Is Not a Life Raft for Newspapers
    And extra points for saying "the old" rather than "the olds."
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    05/04/09

    @Peter Feld: yeah, that was really close.
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    05/04/09

    In reply to Why the Large-Format Kindle Is Not a Life Raft for Newspapers
    Very good post. That last part about building better magazine sites and newspapers is spot on. I really can't see users being into e-papers with no links. Perhaps the middle ground is that the links will stay within their domain? Kind of like when AM NY prints links to there own site?
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    04/03/09

    In reply to Investigations Don't Require Ink, or Actual Investigation
    I won't get upset until Bill Keller says that the Times is bigger than the Beatles.
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    04/03/09

    @joe_gillis: At this point the Times is barely bigger than the Oregonian, where Keller used to come from.
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    04/03/09

    In reply to Investigations Don't Require Ink, or Actual Investigation
    A power struggle at a Pacifica station is like a fight between Stalin and Bukharin: You know these things are always going on behind the scenes at Party Headquarters, and you never know who to root for.
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