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The relative value of blog content vs. actual news items may be quite low in the majority of posts, looking across the general quality / salience of NYT blog po
by agentq 17y ago
The relative value of blog content vs. actual news items may be quite low in the majority of posts, looking across the general quality / salience of NYT blog posts. Though some blogs like DealBook and Economix probably have high readership, I wonder if people will really be willing to pay for opinionated tidbits.
- cabalamat 17y ago> I wonder if people will really be willing to pay for opinionated tidbits I guess it's supply and demand: people will be willing to pay of opinionated writing on the net when there is a shortage of free opinionated writing on the net. I.e. never :-)
- dpapathanasiou 17y agoThey've tried it before. "Times Select" was a paid feature for access to its opinion columnists (regular news was free), but it lasted just two years: http://paidcontent.org/article/419-new-york-times-to-close-timesselect-effective-wednesday/ http://paidcontent.org/article/419-new-york-times-to-close-t...
- thechangelog 17y agoI wonder, too. Some of the NYT's most unique content is on its blogs, though, and they're the only NYT feeds I subscribe to. My guess is that if Nisenholtz does this, a lot of the branded blogs on nytimes.com, including both Freakonomics and Paul Krugman, will simply leave and set (back) up on their own I think that's a pretty good guess.