Happy New Year!
Having fastidiously ignored all book-related websites for a couple of weeks so I could do things like umm… read books, I have a lot of catching up to do! No doubt I will have a bazillion interesting links to post in the next couple of weeks as I trawl through my RSS feeds… Watch this space.
In the meantime, here’s a great story by David Carr for The New York Times on TriCityNews of Monmouth County, New Jersey, which has all but ignored the web and thrived:
“Why would I put anything on the Web?” asked Dan Jacobson, the publisher and owner of the newspaper. “I don’t understand how putting content on the Web would do anything but help destroy our paper. Why should we give our readers any incentive whatsoever to not look at our content along with our advertisements, a large number of which are beautiful and cheap full-page ads?”
The TriCityNews columnists apparently write with a “mix of attitude and reporting” that Mr. Jacobson describes as a ‘plog’–“a blog on paper”. Genius. (I love this story.)
(via The Wooden Spoon)