4 responses to “The Economist needs to take advice in its own survey of new media”
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It would be nice if all publications had free online access to their material (even if they required a login like the nytimes –which is not entirely free either). Also, I think a commenting feature on articles would be an additional interest to most internet surfers.
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I agree with you about the seeming contradiction.
I still haven’t read the actual articles from the survey yet but in listening to the David Sifry audio interview, this contradiction is briefly addressed. They’re discussing Technorati’s top site list and the fact that The Economist isn’t included (and the interviewer mentions that this website that he’s never heard of–BoingBoing is included; I’m sorry, but any average web person must know about BB, but I digress). The newspaper’s person, Andreas Kluth, says that any walled-off content automatically excludes the top sites from the spontaneous conversations of Technorati’s top list. “It is a sin in the New Media world; if you’re taking yourself out of spontaneous human conversations, that cannot be a good thing.”
He says that he’s not sure why The Economist still has walled-off content but suggests that he’ll ask his boss.
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Stacy – I see you have helped the Economist out with a full version of the article on your blog.
I agree completely about the need to open up for comment. When you’re used to reading blog content it actually begins to feel instinctively wrong that you can comment on articles and that there’s something missing when you can’t see what others have said.
Interesting that the NY Times is top of the list with those restrictions. does that contradict what Jeff Jarvis and Jupiter were saying, I wonder?
I don’t mind paying for the Economist sub, I have done for a while. For me it’s worth it. The question is: is that subscription sustainable in the new media market we’re moving to?
Chris – thanks for pointing out that the audio is available. I’d clocked it but not listened yet.
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Economist new media survey – round up
Richard Bailey beat me to it… but The Economist’s new media survey is still a great concise history of new media. There’s nothing too ground-breaking in there, but nevertheless it reassuringly provided me with a few tit-bits about new media’s
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