[...] Bill Keller gave an update late last week on the plans for his paper’s much-anticipated paywall — he didn’t really tell us anything new, but did indicate the Times’ solidified plans [...]

[...] talked to MinnPost about his plans for a new metered-model system (like what The New York Times announced in January), and from the sound of it, he’s looking at charging primarily for local news — the paper [...]

Full disclosure: it’s an excerpt from a speech my father, Peter Nicholson, gave to the Fiesole Retreat in Glasgow, Scotland, July ‘09.

Last summer as he was preparing this speech on the overabundance of information and its impact on our future, he discussed with me the idea of explaining knowledge in the economic terms of “stock” and “flow.”

It wound up being one of the bases for the speech and in the Globe&Mail article…which has some other fascinating connections as well, not least is a discussion of some of the possible (and awesome) drivers behind WHY knowledge has evolved from stock to flow.

Definitely worth reading: http://bit.ly/3oJXjn

all the best, C.

[...] A 35-minute Q&A session with the three executives most responsible for the Times’ coming paywall (or, more specifically and as they prefer to call it, a metered model) at last Friday’s [...]

[...] A 35-minute Q&A session with the three executives most responsible for the Times’ coming paywall (or, more specifically and as they prefer to call it, a metered model) at last Friday’s [...]

[...] review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Jan. 22, [...]

[...] description of what it will look like. (Summary: A metered model, like the Financial Times or The New York Times’ plans; breaking news and multimedia will be free; enterprise reporting, columns and reviews will be [...]

[...] that it would be charging for some access to its website, starting in 2011, rekindled yet another round of debate about paywalls for online news. Beyond the practical question (will it work?) or [...]

[...] The New York Times’ paywall plans » Nieman Journalism Lab Apparently the paywall doesn't apply to anyone who comes into an NYT story from an external link. Huh? Only heavy users who stay within the site's own navigation will be charged. So, only the best and most loyal customers, and the ones with the most value to advertisers, will be punished. This sounds like precisely the opposite of what they want to do. Making an external page that will list all of the day's NYT content is beyond trivial. I've been doing it for years with My Yahoo and MyWay pages, just so I can get a headline list without the ad overload or the cumbersome navigation of a newspaper front page. Now the NYT will be encouraging users to flee to those services, ensuring that they will build up long-term click patterns with Yahoo, Google and portal providers, who already present the headlines in faster, cleaner ways. Dumbest idea ever. (tags: newspapers fear) [...]

[...] the good people at the Nieman Lab, who are paid to think about this stuff all the time, have an amazing roundup of talk about the Times. Happy [...]