Comments on: Pittsburgh’s strawberry fields http://www.dankennedy.net/2009/09/01/pittsburghs-strawberry-fields/ By Dan Kennedy • The press, politics, technology, culture and other passions Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:09:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Art Kane http://www.dankennedy.net/2009/09/01/pittsburghs-strawberry-fields/comment-page-1/#comment-49253 Art Kane Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:59:30 +0000 http://www.dankennedy.net/?p=6056#comment-49253 I think I'm a micro-payments candidate, but that may just be a reflection of my particular age-group and economic circumstances. If the Globe were to come up with a Globe+, and send me a daily e-mail menu, I'd probably dip in 10-12 times each month (depending on content)at somewhere between 50-cents and 99-cents a shot. But I wouldn't pay a montly or yearly fee that was a multiple of such payments, even if cheaper for me in the long run. Question is: how typical -- or a-typical -- am I? I think I’m a micro-payments candidate, but that may just be a reflection of my particular age-group and economic circumstances.
If the Globe were to come up with a Globe+, and send me a daily e-mail menu, I’d probably dip in 10-12 times each month (depending on content)at somewhere between 50-cents and 99-cents a shot. But I wouldn’t pay a montly or yearly fee that was a multiple of such payments, even if cheaper for me in the long run. Question is: how typical — or a-typical — am I?

]]> By: Rory O'Connor http://www.dankennedy.net/2009/09/01/pittsburghs-strawberry-fields/comment-page-1/#comment-49250 Rory O'Connor Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:14:47 +0000 http://www.dankennedy.net/?p=6056#comment-49250 Desperate to stay alive, beleaguered newspaper executives first tried to “monetize” their “content.” Now they’re desperately trying to “monetize” their “journalists.” http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2009/08/26/join-the-journalism-clubs-members-only/ Desperate to stay alive, beleaguered newspaper executives first tried to “monetize” their “content.”

Now they’re desperately trying to “monetize” their “journalists.”

http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2009/08/26/join-the-journalism-clubs-members-only/

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