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23 May 10
Adam Crowe'Newspapers thrived, in part, because reading just one edition provided only a few cents' worth of social currency. Compounding your earnings requires that you read the damn thing nearly every day. Ignore a couple of issues, and you get left behind. Newsp
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23 Feb 09
Keas Editorialthe decline of newspapers has nothing to do with journalism and everything to do with the changing world.
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09 Jan 09
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20 Oct 08
cshirkyThe last thing the unwell newspaper industry needs is another diagnosis of what ails it—so here goes!
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30 Aug 08
Ari R"To read a newspaper and then keep your trap shut is to miss the point: Newspapers are designed to be read and argued over. You've got to spend social currency to make social currency.
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25 Aug 08
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Not that long ago, the daily newspaper was an indispensable coiner of social currency
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the social currency found in a newspaper has a relatively short shelf life.
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Newspapers thrived, in part, because reading just one edition provided only a few cents' worth of social currency. Compounding your earnings requires that you read the damn thing nearly every day.
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Other institutions do far better jobs at issuing social currency these days. What is Facebook but the Federal Reserve Bank of social currency?
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The social networking that takes place via instant messaging, microblogging, or e-mail further steals from newspapers the mindshare they once owned.
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07 Aug 08
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05 Aug 08
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Andy JacksonNot that long ago, the daily newspaper was an indispensable coiner of social currency, and it gave its readers piles of the stuff in each edition.
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Adam GerikJack Shafer: "But to read a newspaper and then keep your trap shut is to miss the point: Newspapers are designed to be read and argued over. You've got to spend social currency to make social currency."
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Whether by design or chance, the social currency found in a newspaper has a relatively short shelf life. If you don't think so, try bringing up a pivotal play from a week-old baseball game over coffee or invoke a weather story from two days ago. Newspapers thrived, in part, because reading just one edition provided only a few cents' worth of social currency. Compounding your earnings requires that you read the damn thing nearly every day. Ignore a couple of issues, and you get left behind.
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jagannath rao adukuriNewspapers have been the best providers of social currency for years.No longer. At least this is what we think-the nerdy city guys who live off the internet.But ,in reality, it is the newspaper which continues to thrive in our innumerable villages ,small towns and our ghettos in metros and streetcorners.Newspapers are not dead.It is the national newspapers which have a pan-Indian presence that face the music.The small time newsparers, the vernacular papers continue to do well in our streetside gatherings.They provide the social currency for the common people-in the barber's shop,in the small bank branches in villages where village elders congregate and village women meet for long chats( yes ,this is true in our own bank's numerous village branches),in the village post offices,court premises wit the unending waits.
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For as long as anybody can remember, the newspaper has been the primary info-hub through which people interacted. Oh, people might have talked to the shoe-shine man or their broker about what they heard on the radio or saw on television, but nothing could beat the newspaper as a source for socially lubricating conversation. How many times have you heard a conversation start, "Didja see that article ..."?
By sniffing the bits of social currency an acquaintance had withdrawn from the pages of his daily and was trying to cash—say, a quip about that picture of an egg frying on a city street the paper published; or a comment about a movie review or comic strip; or an opinion about local government based on a piece by a political columnist—the sniffer could learn reams about his social contact.
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04 Aug 08
Stephen Harlow"Not that long ago, the daily newspaper was an indispensable coiner of social currency, and it gave its readers piles of the stuff in each edition."
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01 Aug 08
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