Mainstream Press Finally Realizing That Kids Want To Share News, Not Read News
from the it-took-them-this-long? dept
In an interesting followup to our earlier post about the state of the news business, Robin writes in to point us to a NY Times article all about how a younger generation of news readers now focus on sharing the news, rather than just consuming it. Mathew Ingram highlights the key sentence in the article, from a college student: "If the news is that important, it will find me." Very few mainstream publications have grasped that concept, even if some folks have been saying the same thing for years. It's time for those in the newspaper business to stop thinking of readers as straight consumers. They're distributors, promoters, creators and analysts of the news as well. Once you recognize that, you start to change how you approach the news business. You certainly get rid of paywalls and registration walls, and you start enabling your users to do more, rather than less, with the news.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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paywalls and registration walls
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Invite sponsorship
This is as opposed to charging them to see it or prosecuting them if they share it.
Funnily enough, I'm currently working on http://1p2u.com as way for a blogger's audience to commission the blogger.
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Re: Invite sponsorship
Maybe you meant "curiously"?
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http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50091012/50091012se14?single=1&query_type=word& queryword=Funnily&first=1&max_to_show=10&hilite=50091012se14
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Ha Ha.
How about this one
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Bubbling up the best
Will be neat to see if some of the more "mainstream" sites (like Yahoo!'s new Buzz product) will be able to execute on all of this...
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I hope for your sake that was on purpose. If so it's muy funny-o
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Come on. Get with the program guys!
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headlines
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Duuuuhhhh....
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Re: paywalls and registration walls
OMG!! You had to get past registration walls!!
Cry me a fscking river, boo hoo!
How did the world survive, how did people get their news, how did we leave the cave? How did Newton and Copernicus and Heron of Alexandria accomplish anything, if accessing knowledge was sooooo haaarrrdddd????
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Kids Want To Share News, Not Read News
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