The recent news of The New York Times charging users for their content is one of the dumbest moves I ever heard. Ok, maybe not the dumbest but it made me realize how much the “traditional” media companies still don’t get it. Our world is turning into a digital world free from limited resources pushing the content they want us to hear, read, watch to a society of people with free thoughts to create their own content that they are passionate about or would like to share with people who want to search them out and make a connection.
So I get it, they can’t make enough millions or billions to support their built out infrastructure, salaries, layers of management and people, printing presses and other archaic methods they use to use so now instead of reinvented the entire platform and maybe opening it up with better ways to create content, link with local NY bloggers, and adapt they turn to charging the customer to read their content that they can find for free somewhere else on the web. Sorry NY Times and other traditional media outlets your content is not that good and we have a new digital market of millions of bloggers and other content sources we can search on Google with their new social search and blog search features. Like most people I will never pay to read a “newspaper” site online.
Even porn can’t make money anymore the way they traditionally did what makes you think you can with less interesting negative content? I suggest they take back paying for content again as they did before when it failed and start innovating in better ways then just charging users to read their negative article I can find myself on 1 of my 200 free content subscriptions on my Google Reader, Twitter Stream, or Google Blog Search.
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