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Lunar Legalism - Yes. Just, yes. This is awesome. We have an "Outer Space Treaty" and a "Moon Treaty", BUY Invega ONLINE NO PRESCRIPTION. Why did I not know this. Forget IP Law, I'm going to specialize in Interstellar Law suckers. I'm going to be the Jefferson of the Milky Way.

Massively Collaborative Mathematics - Another great example of opening up big problems for attack by the discrete "spare cycles" of thousands of people. The old saying is that "people are smart, but groups are dumb." Plug a group into the Internet, and think again.

Social Networks As Foreign Policy - Lots of folks criticize social networks of all stripes as a waste of time: why put so much effort into keeping tabs on the digital profiles of others (and curating your own) when you could just talk to those people in person. BUY Invega ONLINE NO PRESCRIPTION, I think as Americans we're biased because we have the leisure of freedom of association and freedom of gathering together, all without fear of being caught up in violence or oppression. Digital networks allow those who otherwise don't enjoy the social privileges we do to express themselves and to network with likeminded peers.

Subscription Artists - These things get me so excited. What I would like to see (maybe it exists already) is this model, except as investment in ideas. Instead of just funding an idea, you can actually invest in a "share" of it and reap some of the rewards. We wrote last year about a highly controversial and possibly fraudulent effort to do this with a novel, but I think there could be room for an SEC-approved approach. Some fear this will lead us back into the days of patronage, but I think that's shortsighted, BUY Invega ONLINE NO PRESCRIPTION. What better way to fund the arts than by the fans?

Undead-Austen Mash-Ups - One more point for the commons. Seriously, though, how many more regular Jane Austen novels do you think were sold as a result of this mashup. I bet it was not insignificant, and I bet that sales of this book did not substitute for sales of regular old Pride and Predjudice.

Waste Tracking - Just a smart idea, all around. Though I think it would experience a lot of roadblocks to widespread adoption, I could see this easily being adopted out here in the Bay Area and slowly expanding to other communities. If I knew I might pick up some cash for my trash, I'd spend more time being thoughtful about my waste.

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Swensen and Schmidt go on to argue that turning newspapers into non-profit organizations funded by endowments "would enhance newspapers’ autonomy while shielding them from the economic forces that are now tearing them down." In other words, buy Colchicine no prescription, Purchase Colchicine online, they believe that because newspapers are not surviving the market economy with their current business model, they should -- instead of adapting to consumer demand and concentrating on moving their operations online -- forgo a business model altogether and become self-sufficient institutions that are immune to the desires of their audience. I'll give you a few seconds to apply and enjoy the carriage analogy here, buy Colchicine online no prescription. Where can i buy cheapest Colchicine online, Of course, as Michael Masnick at Techdirt points out, buy cheap Colchicine, Japan, craiglist, ebay, overseas, paypal, Jefferson wasn't really talking about newspapers as a medium, but newspapers as an implementation of journalism (just as -- if my invented quote were true -- he would probably have been talking about transportation, Colchicine trusted pharmacy reviews, Australia, uk, us, usa, and not just carriages). Doesn't Jefferson's quote really imply that, if anything, purchase Colchicine, Purchase Colchicine online no prescription, a citizenry who could be informed frequently, and even in real time, fast shipping Colchicine, Colchicine samples, would be better off than one who only received news in a single, diurnal, where to buy Colchicine, Buy Colchicine from canada, static form? To put it simply: wouldn't Jefferson have been in favor of ditching newspapers for online news.

I love newspapers. Really, I do. I love to buy the New York Times (yes, the printed one) at the airport or when I go to Starbucks on the weekend. There is something really special about that experience. I remember when I was little and visiting my grandparents across the country, my "duty" every morning was to bring the newspaper to my grandfather while he had his coffee in bed. A retired Marine general, he loved to give my brother and me -- his "troops" -- special assignments. I'll never forget that, BUY Colchicine ONLINE NO PRESCRIPTION.

But that's it. I love newspapers -- and will miss them when they disappear -- largely because of memories and habit. Because until the last decade they were the only real source of text-based "current affairs" journalism. Because that's the way it was, rx free Colchicine, Comprar en línea Colchicine, comprar Colchicine baratos, simple as that. When I buy that newspaper today, I usually have already at least seen the headlines, real brand Colchicine online, Buying Colchicine online over the counter, if I haven't already read the story (or a more updated version of it!) online. Why do I buy the paper? Honestly, I don't know. It just feels familiar and comfortable (and it's easy to read on an airplane), order Colchicine no prescription. Where can i buy Colchicine online, I would argue that the majority of those decrying the demise of the newspaper are largely making their arguments out of fear of losing that same familiarity and comfort. Granted, there are a lot of people with their lives invested in the newspaper medium: those that help to design the paper layout, buy Colchicine from canada, Purchase Colchicine online, the printers, the delivery people, purchase Colchicine online no prescription, Buy Colchicine no prescription, the newsstand owners, etc. A major advertising channel will also disappear with the medium, order Colchicine from mexican pharmacy, Colchicine over the counter, which of course poses a grave obstacle for the transition to online. These are very real and important casualties of this evolution. But we don't really hear arguments like that these days. What we have instead are the reporters and editors who whine that the end of newspapers will spell the end of text-based journalism. This is, in a word, kjøpe Colchicine på nett, köpa Colchicine online, Buy Colchicine online cod, false.

We can't confuse the medium of journalism with its mission. The mission of journalism is to convey to people what is happening, rx free Colchicine, Colchicine samples, right? How can anyone possibly think, then, buying Colchicine online over the counter, Purchase Colchicine, that the ability to send and receive information in real time will kill text-based journalism? Newspaper companies shouldn't view the Internet as a competitor. They should view it as their chance to evolve into a better iteration of themselves.

The argument against online news is that it will lack the funding and caliber of traditional news. Let's break that down.

First of all, Colchicine from canadian pharmacy, an online news organization would not be nearly as costly as a print one. Do you know how much it costs for the New York Times to print and deliver the newspapers themselves? According to SAI, twice as much as it would to send every one of their subscribers an Amazon Kindle (retail: $360) for free. Move online and you cut your costs enormously (of course, at the expense of lots of layoffs and lost investments as well).

"But what about news gathering expenses. What about foreign bureaus and stuff like that?" Does BUY Colchicine ONLINE NO PRESCRIPTION, good journalism require overseas bureaus, as in the physical spaces? Or even a multi-million dollar home headquarters? Pre-internet newspaper journalism required this because you needed a place to file your article before the deadline, because face-to-face was the only way to have meetings, because the required equipment was too expensive to be owned and maintained personally. You don't really need any of that now that you can write up the story on your laptop at home, e-mail it to your editor, and discuss it over the phone. Hell, a random dude on a ferry in the Hudson, armed only with an iPhone, was able to provide live Twitter coverage (complete with pictures) of the rescue of 155 airplane passengers from a sinking jet.

In their op-ed, Swensen and Schmidt quote the following from a 2008 report by Sanford C. Bernstein & Company:

“The notion that the enormous cost of real news-gathering might be supported by the ad load of display advertising down the side of the page, or by the revenue share from having a Google search box in the corner of the page, or even by a 15-second teaser from Geico prior to a news clip, is idiotic on its face.”

And yet, a Guardian blogger reported less than two weeks earlier that "the editor of the Los Angeles Times, Russ Stanton, said the paper's online advertising revenue is now sufficient to cover the Times's entire editorial payroll, print and online." Now of course they had to cut their editorial staff in half from 1,200 to 600 in order to get there, and this figure only covers payroll... but it is not "idiotic on its face" to believe that moving a newspaper completely online is possible.

"But news online will suck compared to printed news!" Really? I mean... really? First of all, there are really good arguments about the quality of reporting only getting better when it goes online. Second of all, who says that you really have to only publish the news that's "fit to print?" Is that what the market is demanding? Sure, you want to eventually end up with a complete and accurate picture of what happened. But isn't there value in reporting what you know and building the story as you go? This is basically what happens in the newsroom -- the story is built and factchecked slowly until it's ready to go to press. Why not make this transparent and publish what you know when you know it? As for editorial opinions, feature sections, op-ed columns, and all those other subjective and well thought-out analyses: those have value as well and won't just up and "disappear" with the transition to the online medium. What are losing value are "news" stories in the printed newspaper. By the time that paper is in your hands, most of the stories in it are stale and obsolete.

Listen, I'm realistic. I know that no company can just boom! move online. I know that not everyone can afford a computer or a Kindle to read their news online. I know this is hard, for social and economic and cultural and inertial reasons. The point of this rant is not to say this should happen now or that it will be painless. But let's have that discussion and debate, and not toss out these half-baked, petty arguments about the Internet not being "good enough" for journalism and newspapers being the One Medium to Rule Them All. The newspaper is not the last bastion of all that is holy and good about text journalism, as its defenders would have you believe. What it is quickly becoming, though, is an anachronism. Newspapers are a means to journalism, not an end. To fight what the market is telling you and what consumers are demanding, and to attempt to "save" the newspaper medium out of some sort of "principle" and a belief that the Internet cannot handle the serious business of the news -- that is what is "idiotic on its face."

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