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Newspapers – Paper or Electronic, please?

There has been a lot of talk lately about newspapers going with paid-for-online-content over offering it for free as has been the norm for some time now. This is in effect something they’ve been headed for since the industry has been in dire straights economically speaking for a while.

The overall idea is to pad their income with online content by charging subscribers a fee. This way, they can get customizable content along with a few ‘perks’ delivered right to their virtual inbox or browser. This, along with paid subscriptions to the printed version would hopefully, add to their bottom line since it’s headed for the bottom anyway with the high costs of ink, paper, overhead, etc. on the constant rise. Read the rest of this entry »

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Jobs, Impressions and Reality

Me in my old officeKind of a crazy title but after a bit, you’ll understand it a bit better. Let me lead into this a bit for you first so you have a little background, OK? Good.

My main source of income over the last 30 some odd years has been in the printing industry in some form or fashion. From operating the presses to maintaining them, I’ve pretty much been involved in most all aspects of the printing industry to date. For the past 2+ years, I’ve been in the Maintenance department at the local newspaper here doing my part in helping keep the big machines running. ‘Nuff said about that for now.

I’ve also had my own web design business that, when it was going full tilt, was also a very interesting venture. I am self-taught and am proud that I was fortunate enough to have some very good friends in the field that took me under their wing if you will, and taught me a lot about web design. The rest I learned from books, the internet, and many frustrating trial and error days and nights of learning. I did quite well at it too for a good while. Read the rest of this entry »

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