Will at Stylin' and smilin' has finally graced us with an entry. It's a doozy. I'll quote a couple of bits.
"The Internet is the future of newspapers as we know it. I will always be a newspaper guy as long as there's a tangible product sitting on my doorstep each morning. But our paper's Web sites provide the rest of the country (and the world) with a face of what we look like and what we do."
True enough.
The problem is that revenue comes from the print side. Online publications have struggled to make a profit. Until we figure out how to attract high-profile advertisers to support free online content, newspapers will have to stay mainly in the print realm.
Poor Salon, one of my favorite places online, has nearly gone under time after time. It soldiers on, but barely. Its cousin, Slate, survives on Bill Gates' pocket change.
Also: "This was never meant to be an everyday blog. I guess that violates the rule of blogs (that being blogs need to be updated every day)."
Just update more than every month, Will. That will suit me!
After light posting in November and early December, Nicole returns with a vengeance on A Capital Idea.
Her most recent entry, responding to a Slate article about the Valerie Plame affair. It's a humdinger. Choice paragraph:
"Also, sources leak information for the 'wrong' reasons all the time. That doesn't give the journalist the right or obligation to name them. And if the leaking of this information was a crime, often so is the leaking of other information. It's still not the journalist's job to squeal."
Let's hope this new year is full of such bloggy goodness!