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Peter Preston / Guardian:
Rupert Murdoch's paywall at the Times may not be a disaster — Losing perhaps 95% of browsers (how much are they worth?) can be more than offset by winning committed readers — The Times iPad app: could charging encourage greater loyalty? — Those who make their livings in outer cyberspace …
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Eric Pfanner / New York Times:
London Newspapers Challenge Web's Gratis Orthodoxy — PARIS — A strange thing happened when I checked out the new Web sites from The Times and Sunday Times of London: I read some of the stories. Not just the headlines, but entire articles — even a review of “Sex and the City 2,” a film I hope I never have to watch.
Alexander Howard / The Huffington Post:
FTC Considers Publishing Public Data Online to Support the Future of Journalism — The Federal Trade Commission released a discussion draft of policy recommendations to address the crisis in the newspaper industry and its relationship to the future of journalism. It's embedded below and can be downloaded as a PDF.
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Steve Outing:
Reader comments: It's time to make 'em civil — Have you been watching the Honolulu Civil Beat news experiment? That's the Hawaii news website edited by John Temple (former editor of the defunct Rocky Mountain News) and financed by Pierre Omidyar (founder of eBay).
Randall Stross / New York Times:
YouTube Wants You to Sit and Stay Awhile — TWO weeks ago, YouTube celebrated when the number of videos viewed daily on its site reached two billion, a milestone. — But it also used the occasion to express its envy of television's continuing hold on viewers: “Although the average user spends 15 minutes …
Verlyn Klinkenborg / New York Times:
Further Thoughts of a Novice E-Reader — I have been reading a lot on my iPad recently, and I have some complaints — not about the iPad but about the state of digital reading generally. Reading is a subtle thing, and its subtleties are artifacts of a venerable medium: words printed in ink on paper.
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Kevin J. O'Brien / New York Times:
Mobile TV's Last Frontier: U.S. and Europe — BERLIN — When South Korea plays Greece on June 12 in its World Cup soccer opener in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, life will not necessarily grind to a halt back in Seoul. — Many fans will instead follow a live broadcast of the match on their mobile phones.
David Carr / New York Times:
The Media Equation: Bids for Newsweek Due This Week — This Wednesday at close of business, the first nonbinding letters of interest are due for Newsweek. — If I were at the Washington Post Company, which is selling the weekly after owning it for almost 50 years, I wouldn't be waiting at the mailbox.
Fred / A VC:
I Prefer Safari to Content Apps On The iPad — I've tried a few content apps on the iPad, including the much discussed Wired app. But I don't like reading content via apps on the iPad and I gravitate to the Safari browser. — There are a bunch of reasons I feel this way and I thought I'd articulate them:
Ivor Shapiro / J-Source:
Stackhouse: Globe and Mail will relaunch as daily magazine — Daily “news” papers are doomed by broken economic and reporting models, John Stackhouse told a forum at the Canadian Association of Journalists conference May 29. But the EIC of The Globe and Mail said he draws hope …
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Paul Carr / TechCrunch:
NSFW: Never Mind The Bollocks - Why Carol Bartz Can't Say What Yahoo Is Now — It's Sunday afternoon in San Francisco, and while my American friends are out in the sun, celebrating some holiday or other - is this one Memorial Day or Labor Day or Arbor Day? - I'm confined to my hotel room …
AdAge:
Why You'll Pay More to See Popular Science on IPad — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Consumers who think iPad magazines editions should cost no more than print editions and perhaps should cost less — given all the money publishers save on paper, printing and distribution — are going to be disappointed.
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