Tuesday 28 July 2009

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Anyone can write this crap

All the talk about online newspapers starting to charge for access became louder recently when David Simon, creator of The Wire wrote an essay about how the New York Times and Washington Post should both value their content and start charging simultaneously. (See, for example, John Gruber’s and Dave Winer’s responses.) I sympathise with Simon and would love to share his vision of a press worth saving but, as a reader, his vision is of a fantasy world.

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28 Jul 2009 at Twitter

  • 07:28am: These days I only hear 5 mins of the Today prog but it's enough to send me into a fury. Interviewing joggers about why jogging's good? News?
  • 09:15am: A day off from getting things done in the real world in order to get things done in XBox world.
  • 10:48am: Weird, lost both broadband and mobile internet for a while there... O2 having problems?
  • 05:48pm: Finally finished split-screen Gears of War 2. An anticlimax; no idea what was happening at the end. Glad I won't hear that dialogue any more
  • 06:00pm: @mik3yb The end was insane, but we had *no* idea what we were doing and just stormed through it. Made no sense and it was a bit "that's it?"
  • 09:25pm: @mik3yb Oh we did enjoy the whole thing, much fun. Just found the ending sudden and the dialog pants. Otherwise, fab. Now, what's next?

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