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By: greenwayberns

greenwayberns — Sat, 08 May 2010 00:13:57 +0000

thank you for this very informative post and thank for sharing

By: Jan Simmonds

Jan Simmonds — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:51:42 +0000

Regarding Google’s apparently altruistic advice to Newspaper Execs, in my opinion actually means ‘you need me to supply you with Google ads within your format in order to survive!’

This reminds me of Vito Corleone assuring all the bosses he wouldn’t be the one to break the peace before Michael then wipes them all out during the christening of his Godson.

As a ‘customer’, I still yearn for decent content and though I would like my ‘news and sophisticated opinions’ delivered to me in a much more portable way, I hope you don’t take your pants down any further.

In my humble view you need to start selling your products as an elegant ‘service’ instead. Don’t ruin the brand by allowing get rich ads on your business pages from any third party and by all means charge me a ‘membership’ for being allowed the benefit of commenting, downloading articles to readers, email etc. and then send me a nice monthly mag to cheer me up too. Maybe you could turn the tables and filter the noise from Twitter etc. too and just give me the best ones and comment with your experience over the top of the amateur sea of opinion. I’d pay more for all that than I currently do over the counter.

BUT asking me to ‘subscribe’ for just your news won’t do it I’m afraid…. it needs to be a lot more sexy, and then you’ve got me!

Lastly, when you are in the depths of despair, just remember, if I own a wall and invite everyone and anyone to come and write graffiti on it, then what have I actually got? Initially I may have an interesting collage that everyone wants to look at, but at the end of the day, when people have moved on back to quality content, in reality I just have a messy wall. Who’d want to advertise next to that?

For more about this which I wrote some time ago in the debate … http://tinyurl.com/dn7rmg

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By: Theodore Stevens

Theodore Stevens — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:51:04 +0000

Notice the HUGE typo in the screenshot?

“Former Minnesota LEGISLATURE Dies of Mesothelioma”

What a bunch of morons. Google needs to kick out asbestos lawyer news sites.

By: Sam Harrison

Sam Harrison — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:35:52 +0000

google is an ad company under the guise of search

anyone not clear on that?

ask yahoo, microsoft, and certainly the newspaper companies

google is an ad company

that’s its only mission: serve ads as many places as possible

no matter what google says or its pr machine

google exists to sell ads

repeat after me, google is an ad company…