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Kindle to the rescue
Maybe there’s something to this Kindle thing. People willing to pay for news content who wouldn’t subscribe to a print newspaper. And geeks like it. Remember, we’re at version two. Most technology products don’t really get prime time until version 3. Hey, I’m not into the Kool-Aid so far as to believe it’s the answer,…
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Nothing will work, but everything might
There was a good bit of discussion at an American Press Institute workshop on Friday at Middle Tennessee State University on what business models will work for newspapers even as we see newspapers that aggressively embrace the Web struggling or folding. There weren’t cocksure responses, just pointers to hopeful experiments. Later Friday, Clay Shirky, author…
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Sunshine poll
Americans overwhelmingly support President Obama’s order that federal agencies must show a “presumption in favor of disclosure” when asked to open government records to the public, an order issued during his first full day in office. But a survey of 946 adult residents of the United States also found that 61 percent believe the federal…