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   AW, Aug 9th, 2010 @ 10:10pm

   
   

   Fish...meet barrel..pew pew... We can win the battles, but to win the war we need the new media to create an event that will cause public outcry before anything is done, 3 years tops before this happens.

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   Penguin, Aug 9th, 2010 @ 10:29pm

   
   

   I hope that Cablevision's ads look better than the ones on this site.

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   Anonymous Coward, Aug 9th, 2010 @ 10:51pm

   
   

   Honestly the only reason I haven't signed up to a Newsday or a Times is because of all the extra nonsense that clutters up their portal. I mean honestly? I don't care about some piddling civil war or third-world hunger or this year's elections - they just get in the way of all amazing free ipods and laptops that I can win, or the internet virus scanner!

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   Nevermind ad revs

   

   Pierre Wolff (profile), Aug 9th, 2010 @ 11:37pm

   
   

   Forget ad revenues on their own, are their subscription fees *plus* their ad revenues (however small these might be) add up to more revenue than just their ad revenues before the paywall went up? That's the real question.

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   DSchmeling (profile), Aug 9th, 2010 @ 11:52pm

   
   

   I dunno, I like Schrodinger's Cat. And sometimes I'm really curious as to what it has to do with some woman's chicken... Maybe if you put the chicken in the room with a cat locked up... Yeah, and a bit of radioactive wonderfulness that if it decays unleashes the cat upon the chicken... Hmmm, Schrodinger's Cat eats Strange Woman's Chicken, it's got awesome written all over it!

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   BearGriz72 (profile), Aug 10th, 2010 @ 1:08am

   
   

   "Schrodinger's cat eats Strange Woman's Chicken" As the chicken simultaneously did _and_ did not cross the road.

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   Schrödinger’s Cake

   

   Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Aug 10th, 2010 @ 2:16am

   
   

   You can have it and eat it too.
   
   Or can you?

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   Advertising Revenue and Schrodinger's Cat

   

   Steve R. (profile), Aug 10th, 2010 @ 5:36am

   
   

   I think that there is a correlation problem.
   
   Advertising revenue is declining for a lot media irrespective of whether a pay-wall exists or does not exist. So the question becomes: How can the loss of adverting revenue be attributed to the pay-wall?
   
   I'm confused as to the relevance of Schrodinger's Cat to the chicken. With Schrodinger's Cat, the cat's state (existence) is undetermined and does not become established until examined.

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   Re: Schrödinger�s Cake

   

   Hephaestus (profile), Aug 10th, 2010 @ 6:54am

   
   

   Yes, but only if you put a person in the box with the cake. Until the box is openned the cake exists in both states eaten and not eaten.
   
   I hope that helps ... :)

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    Better Way ...

    

    TheStupidOne, Aug 10th, 2010 @ 8:17am

    
    

    If you want to increase your per reader ad revenue, include an optional log in so that readers can comment and rate articles and have it stored in their profile. Then the site can give you suggested reading that you might appreciate, and they can sell you to advertisers for a premium

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    Paywall = Bad Idea

    

    Aaron Schoenberger, Sep 4th, 2010 @ 8:05pm

    
    

    I, personally, believe paywalls are a waste. They push visitors away because similar content, if not exactly the same content, can be found on other websites. This needs to be overcome.

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