Comments on: News Flash: Some Things Are Going Well at LA Times http://paidcontent.org/2008/08/07/419-news-flash-some-things-are-going-well-at-la-times/ The economics of digital content Sun, 19 May 2013 22:28:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Rafat Ali http://paidcontent.org/2008/08/07/419-news-flash-some-things-are-going-well-at-la-times/#comment-62545 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 02:17:57 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2008/08/07/419-news-flash-some-things-are-going-well-at-la-times/#comment-62545 Hah..good point..we have a workaround to this which we forgot to add this time. thanks for pointing our

]]> By: DairyStateDad http://paidcontent.org/2008/08/07/419-news-flash-some-things-are-going-well-at-la-times/#comment-62544 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 02:11:59 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2008/08/07/419-news-flash-some-things-are-going-well-at-la-times/#comment-62544 "Meredith (NYSE: MDP) Artley"

Ummm, why is an unrelated company's stock symbol inserted next to the name of a person who just happens to share the name with that unrelated company?

There are limits to using bots to assemble content.

]]> By: The Critical Advertiser http://paidcontent.org/2008/08/07/419-news-flash-some-things-are-going-well-at-la-times/#comment-62543 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:00:49 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2008/08/07/419-news-flash-some-things-are-going-well-at-la-times/#comment-62543 Ever look at Salon's 10-Qs during the time they instituted the Ultramercial Site Pass? From 2002 to 2004, almost half ad revenue came from the model, subscriptions over doubled and unique visitors grew a million. LA Times and every other paper need to STOP giving away content for free online and put in an honest value-exchange ad model to access content – OR – make people pay.

The Critical Advertiser

]]> By: digital bear http://paidcontent.org/2008/08/07/419-news-flash-some-things-are-going-well-at-la-times/#comment-62542 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:26:40 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2008/08/07/419-news-flash-some-things-are-going-well-at-la-times/#comment-62542 Zell should just hedge his losses and shutter the print edition, its costs, sell its physical assets and migrate online. If a customer wants a print edition, charge them some ridiculous environmentally induced price of $2/day and have them printed out custom.

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