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Posts from ‘April, 2009’

You Get What You Pay For

I’m sitting in the Printer’s Inc. Cafe, one of the last refuges for Palo Alto’s free thinkers, a title I give not to philosophical nonconformists, but to those who require an abundance of time and space without paying too much for it. There used to be a place called Cafe Verona, a storied Valley venue [...]

Top-Down and Bottom-up: It’s still about the pipes

It’s official: the newspaper business is at an inflection point, and the solutions are being offered at an increasing clip: go nonprofit; charge more; charge less; establish a hybrid model. No wonder there’s no agreement, except on the fundamental inability of the industry to sustain itself. Journalists across the country are being furloughed, particularly those [...]