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  Haywood, Mar 28th, 2008 @ 6:55am

  
  

  paywalls and registration walls

  When I was in school and had to find acceptable sources, I'd actually work to get past a registration wall. Now that any interest in what is behind them is only for my curiosity, I just look elsewhere. Bug-me-not is my friend, but really, who cares what is behind those walls. I can always find other open sites with enough content to get the story. Those who hide behind walls will perish, those with open formats will prosper. Like celebrity, usefulness is fleeting, & only works when they remember who you are.

   

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  Ron, Mar 29th, 2008 @ 7:15pm

  
  

  Re: paywalls and registration walls

  When I was in school and had to find acceptable sources, I'd actually work to get past a registration wall.

  OMG!! You had to get past registration walls!!

  Cry me a fscking river, boo hoo!

  How did the world survive, how did people get their news, how did we leave the cave? How did Newton and Copernicus and Heron of Alexandria accomplish anything, if accessing knowledge was sooooo haaarrrdddd????

   

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  Jake, Mar 31st, 2008 @ 5:59am

  
  

  Re: paywalls and registration walls

  I don't think anyone was implying that they're anything but a fairly minor inconvenience, Ron. Don't give yourself an aneurysm over it, eh?

   

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  Crosbie Fitch (profile), Mar 28th, 2008 @ 6:57am

  
  

  Invite sponsorship

  And one of the new ways to earn a living from news is to enable those who value your news to commission its further research, collection and analysis.
  
  This is as opposed to charging them to see it or prosecuting them if they share it.
  
  Funnily enough, I'm currently working on http://1p2u.com as way for a blogger's audience to commission the blogger.

   

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  Word Nazi, Mar 28th, 2008 @ 7:34am

  
  

  Re: Invite sponsorship

  Funnily? Did I miss that word in school?
  
  Maybe you meant "curiously"?

   

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  Anonymous Coward, Mar 28th, 2008 @ 7:48am

  
  

  Re: Re: Invite sponsorship

  I may have missed your point, but it seemed you were implying "funnily" is not a word.
  
  http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50091012/50091012se14?single=1&query_type=word& queryword=Funnily&first=1&max_to_show=10&hilite=50091012se14

   

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  Chronno S. Trigger, Mar 28th, 2008 @ 7:54am

  
  

  Re: Re: Re: Invite sponsorship

  "The Oxford English Dictionary Online is a subscription service. Access to the Dictionary is only available to users with valid licences."
  
  Ha Ha.
  
  How about this one

   

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  Pilotman28, Mar 28th, 2008 @ 8:56am

  
  

  Re: Re: Re: Invite sponsorship

  I find this superbly ironic seeing how we were just discussing about news sources hiding behind walls and people just say "eh the heck with it" and going somewhere else.
  
  I hope for your sake that was on purpose. If so it's muy funny-o

   

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  JB, Mar 28th, 2008 @ 10:31am

  
  

  Re: Re: Re: Invite sponsorship

  "Funnily" might be a real word, but we'd all be more comfortable if you had used "humorously".

   

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  Crosbie Fitch (profile), Mar 28th, 2008 @ 10:39am

  
  

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Invite sponsorship

  I'm dismayed at the poor standard of grammar Nazis these days. The deliberate grammatical error that I had introduced was not the word 'funnily', as various people have noted, but to omit the word 'a' from "as a way".
  
  Come on. Get with the program guys!

   

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  JB, Mar 28th, 2008 @ 12:21pm

  
  

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Invite sponsorship

  I clicked the link, never made it to that part of the sentence.

   

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  Troy Social, Mar 28th, 2008 @ 8:17am

  
  

  Bubbling up the best

  Sites like Digg and Reddit have been doing a great job at bubbling up the most "interesting" news at any given time. The big challenge in this space, though, is better customizing to different audiences (e.g. kids) and then getting that news better distributed via widgets, apps, Facebook, etc.
  
  Will be neat to see if some of the more "mainstream" sites (like Yahoo!'s new Buzz product) will be able to execute on all of this...

   

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  Steve, Mar 28th, 2008 @ 9:05pm

  
  

  headlines

  It goes like this, read the headline, feel appropriate emotion (usually outrage), pass on to friend so they can agree with you. But I only read the headline....

   

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  Nicole Chardenet, Mar 29th, 2008 @ 8:30am

  
  

  Duuuuhhhh....

  Glad to see the MSM has finally caught up to the....20th century. I figured out years before Y2K that part of the reason why I was more up to snuff on current events than I had been in years past is because my friends and I had been sharing news articles with each other in mass quantities. I have a friend in particular in California I can credit with passing on some of the best and most insightful news articles, and from obscure news organizations like Al-Jazeera and the Asian Times that North Americans don't often see. I probably don't qualify as "young" anymore, but I was when I got on the Net so I learned good habits early on.

   

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  Gary Zulauf, Mar 29th, 2008 @ 10:16am

  
  

  ...it is still "garbage in, garbage out"!!

   

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  World peace And Prosperity Mandate, Mar 31st, 2008 @ 6:58am

  
  

  Kids Want To Share News, Not Read News

  That is my conclusion too. The internet is now awash with news. There are more news than people reading them! This can be understood because there are many new gadgets and activities that take people's time making it impossible for most people to find enough time in the day to do all the things they wish to do. And I am number one on the list of those people!

   

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