I used to have at least a rudimentary idea of how a newspaper got produced: On deadline, drunks with cigars wrote stories that were edited by constipated but knowledgeable people, then printed on paper by enormous machines operated by people with stupid hats and dirty faces.
Gun, Madonna, Maradona, Other Madonna — in Naples.
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Naples!
Ultimately, what we may need is not paywalls but paytags — bits of code that accompany individual articles or features, and that allow them to be paid for.
A question for publishers: Where does brand fragmentation end? » Nieman Journalism Lab
I’d be happy to pay (a small amount, with a single click, on my credit card) for several of the long pieces I read online. But I’ve never heard of a way that makes it possible that doesn’t also “break the web” or consign what’s best about it into the hands of a private company.
