Tuesday 18 January 2011

Read All About It, more local paper changes


Due to interest from the various people I know who haven’t managed to grasp the internet, I have been considering producing a paper version of some of the local blogs.

It may naive of me but I see local papers and local blogs as something very much related. In some ways local blogs are nearer to the way local papers used to be than the local papers are now.

Sorry I digress, the latest local paper to make a change in Thanet Extra, they have now launched a free e-edition see http://www.thanetepaper.co.uk/LandingPage.aspx

Obviously this raises the question, is this the first stage to dropping the paper version of the paper like Your Thanet has?

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6 comments:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 18, 2011 8:18 pm

    I think the true issue is that unfocused marketing does not work any more. People will buy a paper if it meets their needs. It's not part of our life as say 100 years ago reading the morning papers might have been. A paper these day's is a whole other thing.

    By the way feel free to use my content. With an attribution of course.

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  2. Marty BoneIdolJanuary 18, 2011 10:32 pm

    Oh.... and you have permission to use mine too... even though it's not too much about local issues.
    There's not much in the papers these days other than a few eye catching headlines.

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  3. Michael ChildJanuary 19, 2011 5:56 pm

    Marty Matt, yes feel free to use my content too.

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  4. Mrs T PJanuary 19, 2011 8:40 pm

    I always turn to local blogs, to find out local news with your being one of my favourites. I don't know how you would make a printed version pay for itself though.

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  5. AnonymousJanuary 20, 2011 7:40 pm

    The local press are making a mistahe by failing to really run with the local interest issues raised on blogs.

    EG FOI requests revealing contamination of the water supply since the 60s.

    Not surprisingly people reading this, for the first time, on blogs want reassurance that the issue is not serious. And I have to say that ECR served the public interest ill. A consummate writing pro he mitigated every revelation against ad hominem fallacy. Bibliobloke, Irritating Bloke, Tim Garbled etc.

    The local press now has to face the fact that local bloggers (Rick, Thanet Online, Tim Garbutt, Thanet Star, Big News Margate etc) , in spite of the humorous snipes of ECR, have served the public interest infinitely better than the press.

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  6. Michael ChildJanuary 20, 2011 8:53 pm

    Mrs TP I think the answer there is that I don’t have to make it pay, I am often asked this about various local history books that have a very limited appeal, the answer is that they don’t pay.

    Retired you a very similar answer to the previous one, that is the local papers primary objective is profit.

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Comments, since I started writing this blog in 2007 the way the internet works has changed a lot, comments and dialogue here were once viable in an open and anonymous sense. Now if you comment here I will only allow the comment if it seems to make sense and be related to what the post is about. I link the majority of my posts to the main local Facebook groups and to my Facebook account, “Michael Child” I guess the main Ramsgate Facebook group is We Love Ramsgate. For the most part the comments and dialogue related to the posts here goes on there. As for the rest of it, well this blog handles images better than Facebook, which is why I don’t post directly to my Facebook account, although if I take a lot of photos I am so lazy that I paste them directly from my camera card to my bookshop website and put a link on this blog.

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