The Day Paid Content Died

The New York Times invites the huddled, unwashed and unpaying masses (but writes a fine letter to its loyal paid readers).

Tear Down this Wall

Cue the beginning of the end of the old media online model. Could someone plx start a super-distributed super-syndicated news agency now? Kthx. Oh, and gg, Rupert.

UPDATE: Jason Kottke, the first guy who made blogging a job via donations, has an excellent roundup of some of the gems in the NYT archives.

This entry was written by Max Niederhofer, posted on 19 September, 2007 at 10:30.

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  1. Robin Klein
    Posted 1 October, 2007 at 8:23 | Permalink

    Great post, Max!
    Take a look at http://www.daylife.com
    Founder Upendra Shardanand - ex Firefly.
    NYT are investors there. small ones - no board rep. [Like TAG].

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