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For the sake of equal time, Tim Porter -- and now I -- posts one of his reader's "Top 10 Reasons for Reading a News Site."
2. Anywhere I travel, my news site goes with me. It doesn't pile up while I'm away.
5. My news site doesn't just have sections -- it's customizable, and it shows my wife and I exactly what we're interested, separately.
10. I can read my news site in a light breeze.
Again, you have others?
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One of the chief reasons I still read newspapers when I can get most of what I want online is that a newspaper ISN'T customizable. I stumble on things I didn't know I wanted to read, but which turn out to be the happiest kind of accident.
Every time I read a print newspaper I catch something I might not have with a "what I like to read" filter on - and it always spooks me out a little.
Posted on September 7, 2005 9:28 AM
I responded to the original two posts (on the Online-News mailing list) with this:
Top 10 Reasons for Reading the Paper and the Site
10. My 2-year-old doesn't enjoy listening to podcasts on the way to day care. Actually, neither do I.
9. Photos are robbed of their dramatic impact on a computer screen.
8. Both products are easy to scan in completely different ways -- I can skim the first few paragraphs of several articles in the paper, or I can skim a lot of headlines at once on My Yahoo or anything else with an RSS feed.
7. Audio isn't quite the same in a newspaper.
6. The Sunday comics aren't quite the same online.
5. Alternating between print and Web just might stave off the advanced stages of eye strain and carpal tunnel.
4. The paper gives me something to read while I'm waiting for the Web site to download.
3. The Web site might be able to give up-to-the-minute high school sports scores one day, which will be a great supplement to -- not a replacement of -- the thrill parents and kids feel when seeing a name in print.
2. Newspapers have been building community for a couple hundred years. Web sites, excluding those devoted to a narrowly defined niche that was already a "community," are simply an extension.
1. Isn't freedom of choice the whole idea?
Posted on September 7, 2005 8:01 PM