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By: Better Read Than Dead « Dealing with Digital Media

Better Read Than Dead « Dealing with Digital Media — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:31:48 +0000

[...] That’s the title of a recent Time magazine article. [...]

By: Journalista - the news weblog of The Comics Journal » Blog Archive » Feb. 12, 2009: The opposite of a snob

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:39:54 +0000

[...] (Link via Josh Quittner.) [...]

By: Josh Quittner

Josh Quittner — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:15:21 +0000

Thank you. As per Lev’s instructions, I am growing one of those Dizzie Gillespie beards–just a frizz of hair under my lower lip. That should solve the FH requirement and gain me additional posting rights.

By: dennitzio

dennitzio — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:01:22 +0000

I’ve read Mr. Josh in Time and, based on his writing, he qualifies as a full-on nerd. Even if he’s trying to fit in with the suits by going facial-hair free. Guest blogger!

By: yogi

yogi — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:39:45 +0000

Hey come on guys, how many other Time journalists cuss in their postings? That alone deserves some respect for Quittner because I’m sure he’s getting rained on by his editors and lost his blogging privileges as soon as he got ‘em.

By: Rorschach

Rorschach — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:14:57 +0000

Does Josh Quittner have facial hair? I’m pretty sure that’s a rule around here

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:39:11 +0000

I’m confused… was the MediaMoment line a joke? Or is that one of the Time blogs I don’t read?
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As for the subject matter, I’ve been curious about this stuff too. I love web content, but I think the trick to print media still making money is to put some content only in print. I’m pretty sure SI and Time both do this already. I do enjoy paging through Time at my parents’ house, because online, I tend to gravitate to the same places without branching out, but when I page through the print edition, I stop and read things I don’t look for. Does that mean I’m going to start subscribing? Probably not. But I think the only way for print media to make money is to put enough material only in print that people will want to pay to get, while still keeping enough web content to appease the online masses.
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Or, maybe someone just hasn’t come up with the perfect way to put ads into web pages that people will actually click.

By: anon76

anon76 — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:11:29 +0000

Yeah, back the f*ck off, Quittner. This is the Nerd’s house. Seriously. Don’t f*ck with us.

By: Josh Quittner

Josh Quittner — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:16:13 +0000

Oh.. Sorry… Isn’t this MediaMoment? Damn, I got off on the wrong blog. Shit. My bad.

By: Carlos the Dwarf

Carlos the Dwarf — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:01:05 +0000

indeed who is Josh Quittner?
i’m more than willing to start reading on a digital off line platform, so long as i dont have to pay for the device and i can keep and share coppies of the books and/or articles i buy. The tech is never going to come off if you have to drop $200 just to read the $10-25 books you can’t share with anyone else.
Anyway, good work Quittner, whoever you are, beats Selman and the same “funny” he brings to the Simpsons.