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POPSHow To Save The Newspaper, Vol. XII: Outlaw Linking Dumb idea. Most people put copyrighted material on the web so that others WILL link to it. It's the only way for others to know it is out there. Newspapers need to give us something interesting to read - then it will be worth buying them.
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POPSNo More "Free" Internet (Cont) Inevitably, Diller said, the “base model” of the Internet will be paid, at the end of the chaos. The forms will include not just subscriptions and individual one-time purchases, but rapid-fire micropayments and other mechanisms. The early examples: Amazon’s “one-click” system, where a customer enters billing address and credit card information in advance. Then, a button on the screen for a shopping cart is pressed once and the purchase or purchases associated with that cart are confirmed, billed, paid for and delivered.
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POPSWhy the debate about financing journalism misses the point. Smart take from the editor of Slate. There've been a lot of stories about the future business model of journalism in recent weeks, with more to come I'm sure. This actually seems like the smartest to me. "They won't find the grail of a new economic model for journalism—because there wasn't an old one."