Comments on: Why it’s good that I didn’t go to DC this week http://ryansholin.com/2006/10/06/why-its-good-that-i-didnt-go-to-dc-this-week/ The future of news. And more. No funny stuff. Fri, 06 Jan 2012 02:22:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: C.A. McCune http://ryansholin.com/2006/10/06/why-its-good-that-i-didnt-go-to-dc-this-week/comment-page-1/#comment-3681 C.A. McCune Tue, 17 Oct 2006 05:20:00 +0000 http://www.ryansholin.com/2006/10/06/why-its-good-that-i-didnt-go-to-dc-this-week/#comment-3681 Amen! I'm with Doc Searls on this. I hate walled-off newspaper archives. That annoys me as much as the NYT putting all of its top columnists behind the "Times Select" firewall. If you want to be influental in U.S. society, why put your most influential commentators off-limits to most of your online readers? I actually don't mind how Salon.com and some other online pubs handle it, by giving its readers the option of subscribing or sitting through a short advertisement to get to the rest of the story. Usually Salon's advertisements are well done and pretty entertaining...and short enough not to be too annoying. Amen! I’m with Doc Searls on this. I hate walled-off newspaper archives. That annoys me as much as the NYT putting all of its top columnists behind the “Times Select” firewall. If you want to be influental in U.S. society, why put your most influential commentators off-limits to most of your online readers?

I actually don’t mind how Salon.com and some other online pubs handle it, by giving its readers the option of subscribing or sitting through a short advertisement to get to the rest of the story. Usually Salon’s advertisements are well done and pretty entertaining…and short enough not to be too annoying.

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