This is interesting to me in that it's a very Clay Shirky response to The Daily's failure. If you read http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-think

This is interesting to me in that it's a very Clay Shirky response to The Daily's failure. If you read http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking-the-unthinkable/ http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking... or http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2010/04/the-collapse-of-complex-business-models/ http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2010/04/the-collapse-of-complex... they seem (at least in hindsight!) to say that things like The Daily, that just stuff a newspaper into electronic form with the least effort possible, are doomed because they haven't changed their cost centers (for bonus points, the latter piece mocks Murdoch, the owner of The Daily, in particular). I can add very little to Shirky's critique, so I will just recommend that people go and read his pieces and compare their predictions to what actually happened to The Daily.