Talinom's Journal: Hopefully they can't e-mail it to you as well.

NY Times publisher: Our goal is to manage the transition from print to internet

The NY Times confirms it - the NY Times is dying.

[tomhudson]

"Once upon a time, people had to read the paper to find out what was going on in theater. Today there are hundreds of forums and sites with that information," he says. "But the paper can integrate material from bloggers and external writers. We need to be part of that community and to have dialogue with the online world."

Doomed to failure. The idea that their content costs will drop to next to nothing ("integrate material from bloggers and external writers" is just another way of saying that) and that th

Re:The NY Times confirms it - the NY Times is dyin

[Talinom]

The only thing that interests me in the paper is... wait for it... the advertisements. Not all stores have their ads on the web (why I don't know) and that is the easiest way to get that information. Even if they did wouldn't it be easier to find them all in a centralized location?

Having a special advertising section would solve this. PDF might work to retain the "look of paper" for those stuck in the past, but it is almost impossible to read one of those as you have to zoom in too far to see anything.

Supreme Irony

[bettiwettiwoo]

All this may explain why Sulzberger does not talk with the press. (I'm having a really hard time trying not to howl with laughter now.)