This is severely retarded. Honestly. In Orange County, a city with a plentiful population of people needing jobs and wanting to work and invested in their communities, a paper instead opts to crowdsource through Indian outsourcing than maybe offering to give something back to the community by crowd sourcing through, maybe parts of the city with high unemployment? Fuck. The stupidity abounds.
Cool stuff, but using Control4 is cheating. And expensive.
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The grass is always greener on the other side...
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This is so cool. Love that under New York is this hidden world of old.
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So, its not as good in the screen, the speed, weight, cell modem, video or apps, and yet is a competitor? How?
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I find it amusing that the same people who lament, mock and take glee in the demise of traditional media are very happy that one of the hallmarks of "New Media" - Techmeme - got a (deserved) profile in the New York Times.
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Pretty much sums up my feelings on Android. I fear as well that with the rapid pace of "This is the BEST ANDROID PHONE ON THE MARKET" -- seemingly every three weeks -- we are nearly to the point where one company (say HTC) will cause an Osborne Effect on another manufacturer (say, Motorola or Samsung). It is only in each companies best interest to have the worlds best Android phone (WBAP for short). I fear its about to get nasty.
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Shocker!
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Here here!
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R.E.M. should, one random day, close down College Ave between Broad and Washington, setup a stage, play, pack up and head back into their office. Unannounced.
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Wow, I’m surprised at your reaction. Is the sky falling too? I don’t mean to be too cheeky, but the trend for ink-on-paper dailies is to outsource everything except the writing and editorial staff. Most of it doesn’t get into print though. Go figure.
I think newspapers still have a place in a community, they’re just too stupid to realize what that place is.
Outsourcing the things that differentiate a product is retarded.
Ethan, I’m a newspaper executive and regular blackrim reader and would love to hear more about your thoughts about what we do. I didn’t see your email here, but if you send me a note I’ll happily elaborate. Thanks.
Ethan, I fully agree with you. It has always been my opinion that this sort of thing should be a last resort, but ESPECIALLY when you’re dealing with anything that the public will see. Customer service, copywriting… anything that your customer is bound to see, hear, or read should always remain domestic, in my opinion. Your customers always deserve the best.
And yeah, let’s face is, Orange County has the money and the talent pool to keep the company in business.
I do feel for the people in traditional media who are seeing their businesses eaten away at a time when costs are also higher, but seriously, there is any number of new media projects a company like this in a VERY wired county could do to find new avenues of income.
This pains me as well, especially from my former hometown paper. I was down there with family a few weeks ago, and my dad went out of his way to note that the paper has gotten so shallow and outsourced that he’s going to cancel his 15+ year subscription. It would seem that newspapers are now in a race to the bottom, but I didn’t expect OCR to move to the head of the self-defeating pack.
I love the idea of crowdsourcing spellchecking, even factchecking, and, why not, logic checking. (News-identifying and gathering go without saying!) Amazon’s “Amazing Turk” is/was doing something like that.
Daniel, as a digital newspaper exec, I can tell you that nationwide (not the case in Norway, for one), digital revenue for newspapers seldom reaches 10% of print revenue — and although with print revenue falling the gap is closing, it’s not at all clear how it will be closed — thus saving newspaper companies. Now straight line projections are always the least likely to be correct, but that’s true for the increase in digital revenue as well as the decline in print revenue. So…what are your ideas? We need ‘em!