FB: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[repete]

In this latest -- and biggest -- wave of paywall building, most companies seem to follow The New York Times' pattern of a set number of reads per month. Next up, the LA Times ...  coming next week as Tribune papers push on.

To do premium contend you really have to be able to supply something somewhat premium, i.e., the Milwaukee paper's Packers coverage or some SEC town's football overload. As solid as Frank's coverage is, I can't see it. Even with extreme quality stuff, it's dicey (Times Select??). 

No doubt some will push for doing both, which seems like a major gamble at this point in the game.

But there's enough mass behind this latest push that these new 15- or 20-story limit paywalls could be around for a while. Too many big dogs involved.

[DuffMan]

I was doing a visit to the hospital with our dog last night, and after chatting with an older gentleman, it came out that I was a Johnnie and he was a Tommie.  So, he asked, "When are you guys gonna get a respectable hockey team."

Now, normally, I could have responded with, "Whenever you get a respectable football team," but now, I can't even say that.   

[Retired Old Rat]

DuffMan, next time ask him how the Tommie wrestling team is doing.   

[DuffMan]

DuffMan, next time ask him how the Tommie wrestling team is doing.   

Wrestling isn't a sport for pretty-boys!

[DuffMan]

I also talked to a lady that told me I didn't look old enough to be married and have children...I'll be 31 in a few weeks

[OzJohnnie]

Our very own Baby Face Nelson.

[finsleft]

In this latest -- and biggest -- wave of paywall building, most companies seem to follow The New York Times' pattern of a set number of reads per month. Next up, the LA Times ...  coming next week as Tribune papers push on.

To do premium contend you really have to be able to supply something somewhat premium, i.e., the Milwaukee paper's Packers coverage or some SEC town's football overload. As solid as Frank's coverage is, I can't see it. Even with extreme quality stuff, it's dicey (Times Select??). 

No doubt some will push for doing both, which seems like a major gamble at this point in the game.

But there's enough mass behind this latest push that these new 15- or 20-story limit paywalls could be around for a while. Too many big dogs involved.

THis seems to provide a huge opening for alternative content providers...blogs, tweeters and johnniefootball.com

[OzJohnnie]

In this latest -- and biggest -- wave of paywall building, most companies seem to follow The New York Times' pattern of a set number of reads per month. Next up, the LA Times ...  coming next week as Tribune papers push on.

To do premium contend you really have to be able to supply something somewhat premium, i.e., the Milwaukee paper's Packers coverage or some SEC town's football overload. As solid as Frank's coverage is, I can't see it. Even with extreme quality stuff, it's dicey (Times Select??). 

No doubt some will push for doing both, which seems like a major gamble at this point in the game.

But there's enough mass behind this latest push that these new 15- or 20-story limit paywalls could be around for a while. Too many big dogs involved.

THis seems to provide a huge opening for alternative content providers...blogs, tweeters and johnniefootball.com

The denizens of the computer science labs come crawling out from the bowels of the Peter Engel Science Center, flinch and then hide their eyes from the glare of the sun overhead, and march onto Clemens field chanting "All your content are belong to us!"

[SagatagSam]

THis seems to provide a huge opening for alternative content providers...blogs, tweeters and johnniefootball.com

And, Frank Rajkowski writing political commentary with a loosely affiliated sports reference creates an even wider opening for alternative content to the SC Daily Planet.

Must be a slow news day.

[Retired Old Rat]

THis seems to provide a huge opening for alternative content providers...blogs, tweeters and johnniefootball.com

And, Frank Rajkowski writing political commentary with a loosely affiliated sports reference creates an even wider opening for alternative content to the SC Daily Planet.

Must be a slow news day.

Thanks for pointing that out.  I might have to spring for the paid on-line thing now.   

Must say, kudos to Frank for tackling the subject and his editor for being willing to publish it.

http://www.sctimes.com/article/20120306/SPORTS/103060044/Rajkowski-column-Choice-targets-matters-Rush

[SagatagSam]

Not to sound like I'm sticking up for the bombastic talk show host, but criticizing Rush Limbaugh is hardly a profile in courage. To make it sound like Frank (with the help of Dave DeLand) really stuck his neck out on this one is stretching the truth just a tad.

[emma17]

Not to sound like I'm sticking up for the bombastic talk show host, but criticizing Rush Limbaugh is hardly a profile in courage. To make it sound like Frank (with the help of Dave DeLand) really stuck his neck out on this one is stretching the truth just a tad.

And comparing the "innocence" of a person that chooses to go public before the senate with her opinion with an "intramural athlete" is far from accurate and honest.

[OzJohnnie]

We're getting all political here, which isn't wise, so I'll keep my comment very short.  It is this: I'll be impressed by this sort of article when it is written according to principle rather than interest.

There are many women who have been called sl*t or even the c-bomb in a public arena (and even speculation about one presidential candidate's wife's adult toy preferences) that did not get the same notes of chivalry in their defense.  In fact, Frank defends those slanders because they happened to public figures.  There is a difference between criticism and debasement.  Call me unimpressed that Frank argues that difference is immaterial for public figures.

So, "Yay!" to Frank for writing the article and "Boo!" to Frank for being so wrong.

EDIT:  Ha!  And this morning Imus called Limbaugh a "fat, gutless, pill-popping loser."  Good thing Rush is a public figure so there are no standards of decency demanded of any individual when discussing Limbaugh.  Our country is going to Hell in a handbasket.  I'm teaching my kids manners and respect.  All these bozo's need to sit in on a few lessons in the Oz household.  I'm unimpressed with the whole lot of them and give none of them any money.  I don't buy their books; I don't read their articles; and, I don't listen to their shows.  They can keep themselves warm by the burning fires of Rome all by themselves.

On a contrasting note.  Remember when that Johnnie wrestler (who I believe was very good) raped a girl a few years ago?  There was no defense.  There was no equivocation.  There was only an immediate expulsion.  That was a defining moment for SJU.  Call me impressed when our "elite" demonstrate the same integrity.

[stanbob]

might be getting old, cant remember, what was that olberman called bristol palin again?

[SagatagSam]

I don't want to open up old wounds, but there was a Johnnie wrestler and a former Johnnie football player that were accused of rape within 18 months of one another.

Both were acquitted by the way.