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Daily Kos — ... the jobs and safety net bill: obstruct it. Heh. Who'd have thought of that, eh? David Brooks: So, like, is Obama wonderful or ordinary? I mean, is he a wonderful Moderate or an ordinary Democrat Liberal? In my binary world, there are no other choices. Techworld: Computerworld discovers the challenges of running liberal activist blog the Daily Kos during the lead up to the election of US President Barack Obama. Walter Isaakson: How to Save Your Newspaper Revere: commentary on disappearing ...

The man who blew up print journalism on "How to Save Your Newspaper"
Sound Politics — The man who blew up print journalism on "How to Save Your Newspaper" Walter Isaacson on why your newspaper is dying and how to save it : Newspapers have more readers than ever. ... The problem is that fewer of these consumers are paying. Instead, news organizations are merrily giving away their news ... a tipping point occurred last year: more people in the U.S. got their news online for free than paid for it by buying newspapers and magazines. Isaacson helped pioneer that trend. In 1994 he was the managing editor who made Time Inc. the first major news organization to publish ...

Can journalism go with the flow?
BuzzMachine — ... * Micropayments. Bless them, too. But micropayments simply have not worked and it’s hard to imagine why they would now. And whether the charge is micro or macro, it’s still a charge that causes all the impact listed above. Glub, glub. ...

Saving newspapers
slacktivist — ... I finally got around to reading Walter Isaacson's cover story in Time magazine, "How to Save Your Newspaper." The topic is important to me both as a citizen and as an employee, but I didn't rush out to read Isaacson's prescription because I doubted he really had the magic bullet that headline promised. And of course he doesn't. His big solution, in short, is that somebody needs to invent some kind of convenient micropayment system that would allow newspapers to charge for the online content we're currently giving away for free. Web advertising, Isaacson ...

The Future of News(papers)
Outside The Beltway | OTB — ... surveys two pieces from the recent “How to save the dying newspaper industry” meme that’s been going around and sounds a much more optimistic note than generally seen in the blogosphere. He points to a February TIME piece by Walter Isaacson (”How to Save Your Newspaper”) that advocates a micropayment system.  While pretty much every blogger who wrote about this idea at the time scoffed at it, Craig observes, “That seems like a pipe dream today, but who knows about tomorrow? Television was once free, but now the average American spends hundreds of dollars each year for his ...