Search Results for Bad Ideastag:www.lucasgrindley.com,2007:/cgi/mt//feed/Bad Ideas2007-06-24T01:20:58ZMovable Type 3.33515Go ahead, I dare you to listen to David Lazarustag:www.lucasgrindley.com,2007://1.1202007-03-16T16:10:45Z2007-05-22T13:03:14Z
SFGate.com columnist David Lazarus says newspapers should start charging for access to their Web sites. And if someone listens to him, then I'm going to get very rich. Let me just promise right now. If any local newspaper decides to...
Ignoring and undermining the public's right to knowtag:www.lucasgrindley.com,2007://1.1012007-02-11T17:13:47Z2007-02-11T17:32:24Z
Peter Scheer used a full-page column in PRESSTIME to seriously suggest a 24-hour embargo for all news online. That way, he says, demand for newspapers will increase. Our thanks to Scheer (who is, ironically, the executive director for the California...
Cutting sports agate means cutting readerstag:www.lucasgrindley.com,2007://1.842007-01-23T01:29:58Z2007-01-23T01:34:37Z
The way to save newspapers isn’t by offering less coverage. The latest example is sports agate, eliminated this time from The Hartford Courant in response to budget cuts. As you know, fans love agate. Isn’t “fan” the root of fanatic?...
And the winner is . . . a waste of timetag:www.lucasgrindley.com,2006://1.392006-12-02T04:05:33Z2007-04-07T13:19:32Z
Howard Owens released a list of online awards for newspaper sites, as judged by a sophisticated panel of one, and asked for some feedback. So, I’ve decided to finally admit . . . I don’t like the TimesCast from Roanoke.com....
Times Select makes money, not sensetag:www.lucasgrindley.com,2006://1.302006-11-14T01:10:20Z2007-01-29T17:00:40Z
First, I have to disclose that I’m a Times Select subscriber despite having vowed never to sign up when they built that paid wall. But, heck, they gave me Times Select for free with my subscription to the weekend paper....