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Because without those "un-needed intermediaries" paying the bill for AP content, the AP couldn't afford to run. And I'm guessing this then makes it OK for there to be only 1 source…

Are you that impressionable that you run out to buy every little thing that is shown to you? How do you propose that journalism, creative works, and other medias that are heavily s…

You're missing the point that people are paying for Netflix/HBO as a premium/luxury service while many in this thread claim they won't even pay for content they like and will inste…

Not all news and content creation can be done as a side job or hobby. The people who do journalism, create content, or support that goal of quality journalism need to make a living…

Those are all subscription or donation (wikipedia) based examples. A lot of sites could never survive on those models or obtain the resources to manage them. I'm all for blocking s…

I worked for public media, the only ads we have are VERY basic PNGs served by DoubleClick or house membership ads for donations. Newsroom != newspaper and your assumption of how al…

What a magical world you live in where everything is free and no one needs to be paid for their work. Ads have been abused by companies over the years but whitelisting sites that w…

I've worked on numerous elections, data projects, and interactives over the past few years. They're a great asset but the narrative behind them is just as important. I've had repor…

As a developer in a newsroom who had no intention of ending up here, it is amazing to see the transition in my industry and just how many companies are eager to hire developers who…

I work in a newsroom as a developer. It is often a perfectly stressful situation made worse by an open office and my own personal inability to "turn off" as you mentioned. I love m…

I just left a WeWork office (Boston) while waiting for an office to be renovated. Things I won't miss: The sound of a Ping Pong ball hitting the table and paddles at 2pm every day.…

Worried about security and privacy...yet still uses Windows XP?

Light can only travel so fast and the routing and network congestion is a far bigger obstacle than bandwidth.

We offload a ton of our scripts to S3 buckets on random unrelated domains and it's a pretty common practice. Did this take that into account?

Garmin has a much better offering in their Vivosmart product. Every Fitbit I've owned has failed within 4-5 months and their very developer hostile when it comes to data export and…

As I posted on another comment, the TL;DR is more like this: "Well these tests don't meet my expectations so lets keep testing using other benchmarks until I'm validated".

"Well these tests don't meet my expectations so lets keep testing using other benchmarks until I'm validated".

Posted this below: Why do that when they can create a unique URL and data mine who you share the link with or where you post it? Publishers call it "dark social" where there are no…

Why do that when they can create a unique URL And data mine who you share the link with or where you post it? People call it "dark social" where there are no referrers such as IM, …

Given that Google is reporting 2.5+ million a month uniques (Chartbeat agrees) for us and Quantcast has us at 380k, I'm a little skeptical. Honestly I expected higher for The Verge…

Still requires a database call for the content and these pages are unlikely to be cached. If I had to guess, NPR isn't using their made collection of servers, probably just a singl…

As a developer working at a smaller shop where software isn't a main focus this is great news. Not everyone is an artisanal software developer, sometimes you've just got to give yo…

You do if those scripts can affect the system and need to run as root. Powershell is incredibly powerful (and dangerous) and some security isn't the worst thing.

Cambridge is all but stuck with Comcast and their ever rising rates for degrading service...meanwhile Arlington just north of the city/Cambridge is still serviced by Fios fiber.