Comments on: Brill, Crovitz, Hindery Launch E-Commerce Venture For News Business http://paidcontent.org/2009/04/15/419-brill-crovitz-and-hindery-team-up-to-solve-news-cash-woes-with-journali/ The economics of digital content Wed, 22 May 2013 03:46:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Dimitry Zolotaryoc http://paidcontent.org/2009/04/15/419-brill-crovitz-and-hindery-team-up-to-solve-news-cash-woes-with-journali/#comment-68767 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:20:06 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2009/04/15/419-brill-crovitz-and-hindery-team-up-to-solve-news-cash-woes-with-journali/#comment-68767 I'm looking forward to seeing this system go live.

Are there going to be standards that would exclude poor quality publishing from hiding behind the payment system? How will you work with search engines that aggregate your content into a feed for easy consumption?

I'm a programmer in online publishing and I hope there is a simple API that would allow for an easy integration with a site.

]]> By: Neill Watson http://paidcontent.org/2009/04/15/419-brill-crovitz-and-hindery-team-up-to-solve-news-cash-woes-with-journali/#comment-68766 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 01:30:25 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2009/04/15/419-brill-crovitz-and-hindery-team-up-to-solve-news-cash-woes-with-journali/#comment-68766 As a professional writer / photographer, it pains me to say this, but it's never going to work.
I already have far too many resources of news online to look to for info, so why would I pay for more?
There needs to be a quantum shift in how existing news and publishing people think about the future. The big change is that the cost of publication is now $0.00.
Does that mean that we're all out of work? No. People still want to read good features and good writing / photography. They just want it delivered in a different way. You guys would be better off spending your $$$ on a REALLY good iPhone app that delivers your content and ads in ways that people will accept.

]]> By: boggart http://paidcontent.org/2009/04/15/419-brill-crovitz-and-hindery-team-up-to-solve-news-cash-woes-with-journali/#comment-68765 Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:49:32 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2009/04/15/419-brill-crovitz-and-hindery-team-up-to-solve-news-cash-woes-with-journali/#comment-68765 As the estimable Mr. Knott Cerius rightly points out there is far too much information available and much of it is of such dubious quality we would not want to pay for it until we had assured ourselves it was worth reading.

This means news and op-ed blogs would have a lot of brand building to do before they could attract worthwhile revenue.

Secondly the web is still virtually security free so we would need to be able to assure ourselves that sensitive personal data was adequately protected before parting with account details.

]]> By: U. R. Knott-Ceirius http://paidcontent.org/2009/04/15/419-brill-crovitz-and-hindery-team-up-to-solve-news-cash-woes-with-journali/#comment-68764 Wed, 15 Apr 2009 06:55:31 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2009/04/15/419-brill-crovitz-and-hindery-team-up-to-solve-news-cash-woes-with-journali/#comment-68764 First of all, I won't use it because I suspect I will have to pay online. If some hacker named 'mikeyy' has a HISTORY far wider than Twitter and, even more important, exposes what level incompetant site creator can rise to before being BBQ'd, I'm OUT

Secondly and maybe most importantly, there really is Too Much Information already and other places to look for similar documents.

Call the time! 8:55 local, STILLBORN

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