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New York Times plans to start charging its Web readers

The New York Times has announced plans to start charg­ing fre­quent read­ers for access the Times’ Web site. The paper says it will be a metered sys­tem, mean­ing that read­ers will get “a cer­tain num­ber” of arti­cles for free before being required to pay. My notes on this news: NYT will take this step, “a step being [...]
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Why Twitter Will Endure

At first, Twitter can be over­whelm­ing, but think of it as a river of data rush­ing past that I dip a cup into every once in a while. via nytimes.com David Carr writes that Twitter is more like Internet “plumb­ing” than a fad, a ser­vice with some­thing for every­body that only gets bet­ter the more peo­ple [...]
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Word of Mouth

From Brad Stone’s arti­cle in the New York Times, look­ing at how mar­keters are try­ing to over­come ad sat­u­ra­tion and inject mes­sages into the con­ver­sa­tions peo­ple are hav­ing on their social networks: “We don’t want to cre­ate an army of spam­mers, and we are not try­ing to turn Facebook and Twitter into one giant spam [...]
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Post-Bowden Post-journalism

A short and admittedly narrow glimpse into the history of the term "post-journalism," inspired by Mark Bowden's article in the Atlantic in October 2009.
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Jarvis criticizes NYT’s Cohen for his dismissal of Twitter

Jeff Jarvis has a post worth read­ing over at BuzzMachine. In it, he com­pares columns about Twitter from two very dif­fer­ent jour­nal­ists: Mike DeArmond, a sports writer from Kansas City, and Roger Cohen, from the New York Times. I’ll leave DeArmond aside, since he was clearly going for humor in his col­umn. Cohen takes a more [...]
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