NYT content ideas
Apr. 15th, 2011 03:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitoutFrom:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thecutline/20110323/ts_yblog_thecutline/are-ebooks-about-to-change-everything-in-the-long-form-media-world
"Jim Schachter, The Times' associate managing editor, "said the Times is "actively thinking about its next ebook," which will likely draw on the paper's lifestyle and service-oriented content."
"With the application of a certain amount of effort, we can take our content that tends to have a pretty short half life and give it lasting value," said Schachter. "That's the hypothesis we need to continue testing."
Hypothesis? Really? All right.
I said probably over a year ago now that the New Old Age Blogs comments threads were so awesome they could be cut and pasted into a book and I'd buy it happily.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thecutline/20110323/ts_yblog_thecutline/are-ebooks-about-to-change-everything-in-the-long-form-media-world
"Jim Schachter, The Times' associate managing editor, "said the Times is "actively thinking about its next ebook," which will likely draw on the paper's lifestyle and service-oriented content."
"With the application of a certain amount of effort, we can take our content that tends to have a pretty short half life and give it lasting value," said Schachter. "That's the hypothesis we need to continue testing."
Hypothesis? Really? All right.
I said probably over a year ago now that the New Old Age Blogs comments threads were so awesome they could be cut and pasted into a book and I'd buy it happily.