tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11920826.post3575416909475590779..comments2024-03-18T05:15:30.666-04:00Comments on Foma*: Fisking The Achenbloggeryellojkthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09592683505688819187noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11920826.post-79319632486991328182007-08-21T19:26:00.000-04:002007-08-21T19:26:00.000-04:00I read my news online. I stay up to date with the ...I read my news online. I stay up to date with the old hometown paper, and I read the AZ Central online. <BR/><BR/>However, the upside to an actual paper news paper is that you don't have to click to the next page or use the back button and there are no annoying pop up ads. <BR/><BR/>All in all, I figure why pay for the paper when I can read it online for free? Hello?Stella Deanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14377490722474048852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11920826.post-82117163901848777872007-08-20T20:26:00.000-04:002007-08-20T20:26:00.000-04:00It's still just too uncomfortable to take the lapt...It's still just too uncomfortable to take the laptop into the bathroom.TBGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04671397846105100809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11920826.post-39173558306996943572007-08-20T16:18:00.000-04:002007-08-20T16:18:00.000-04:00I do get a hard copy paper, because I succumbed to...I do get a hard copy paper, because I succumbed to a guy on the phone - after JA had gone on about how newspapers were on their last legs. I pick up lots of things from it that I would never find online.<BR/><BR/>Carl Woodward - clever melding of two names, or typo?<BR/><BR/>mostlylurkingAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11920826.post-40975339992232100212007-08-20T15:29:00.000-04:002007-08-20T15:29:00.000-04:00No. Somewhere up there (and I do confess I sorta s...No. Somewhere up there (and I do confess I sorta skimmed this post), you ask, "what's wrong with instant feedback?" Assuming it's a legit question, the answer is: its instantaneity. (If that's a word - you get the idea.). The pressure to have everything done yesterday means that anything that takes longer than three seconds to read, or any reaction more considered than that, gets ignored. And that's a serious problem - because the world is so organized that many things simply cannot be boiled down to "elevator pitch" size. <BR/><BR/>On the other side: the price of type real-estate online is considerably cheaper. You can't really argue, well, this won't fit because we only have X pages. Longer pieces can grow to their appropriate length (although if they're poorly formatted, no one will read them).<BR/><BR/>On a related rant: what is the deal that online comics are so damned tiny? Over at The Comics Curmudgeon, someone linked to a Liberty Meadows rerun and raved about it: the art looked good, sure, but the print was so small that you couldn't read it. There's no reason online web comics can't be much larger in scale (even if that's done by needing to click through to a larger image), allowing the artists' work to actually be legible. Rant rant rant.2fshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17813487704459856169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11920826.post-30205705628177951612007-08-20T12:34:00.000-04:002007-08-20T12:34:00.000-04:00I used to *deliver* the Washington Post back when ...I used to *deliver* the Washington Post back when they didn't hire adults to fling it anywhere but near your front door.<BR/><BR/> I have an allergy to newspaper ink now, so I don't subscribe to any hard copy newspapers. I sometimes read used ones with plenty of kleenex handy (less fumy once opened and aired).<BR/><BR/> If they'd invent broadsheet-sized thin electronic paper screens that would download WaPo, I could read the Sunday comics once again.<BR/><BR/> I still think that day must come.The Puphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03033681146842578091noreply@blogger.com