Tag Archives: Patrick Thornton

Why it’s bad to cite iTunes as proof that micropayments will work

By Michael Becker | Published: September 23, 2009
Forgive me for post­ing Patrick Thornton’s whole para­graph with­out much in the way of com­ment, but I don’t think it needs much. Yes, Apple makes money off of micro trans­ac­tions on the iTunes store and does sell songs for $0.69–1.29. First, there is a huge dif­fer­ence between sell­ing a song for 99 cents and sell­ing an [...]
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Pat Thornton: Journalism needs to get down and dirty

By Michael Becker | Published: September 10, 2009
Journalism needs to cut down on the excesses and focus on what works cheaply and well, says Patrick Thornton.
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iTunes not a money maker and wouldn’t be for news

By Michael Becker | Published: January 19, 2009
The other day, I spent a good half an hour jot­ting down my idea as to what an “iTunes for news” would really look like. Now, after read­ing a post by Pat Thornton, I’m start­ing to think I wasted my time. Thornton points out that Apple has stated that iTunes doesn’t turn a huge profit. The [...]
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More TriCityNews reaction

By Michael Becker | Published: December 26, 2008
Pat Thornton at The Journalism Iconoclast reacts to Anil Dash’s post about TriCityNews. Dash, you may recall, won­ders whether the alt weekly is really a “news“paper at all or just an adspace. Thornton agrees with Dash and chides the New York Times article’s author, David Carr, for “not prov­ing that the triC­i­tyNews serves its com­mu­nity [...]
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