Rob Sanheim

Big Media vs. Blogs: Longing for the Good Ol' Days

While I agree 100% with the changes you talk about, and welcome it, I think its going to take a long time for the mainstream to turn to digg or reddit before opening up their local newspaper. Right now digg is still very much a tech site, despite their attempts to go mainstream. I personally find much more relevant and engaging news via sites like reddit or metafilter, which might lead to a blog or to a old-world newspaper site, but I'm a blogger and a programmer and I realize I'm still very much in the minority in how I find news.

Also, I really wish the NY Times would "get it" and just open up all their content without registration. They would gain a lot more value from people deep linking their site versus the demographics they get from the stupid registration.