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WordBanks

  1. @syladurantaye Been waiting for that shoe to drop...
  2. @gmarkham There will be more, Mark, until online models begin selling predictably, print line rates are cut and papers get far more local.
  3. @gabrielletieman Don't panic Gabi. This is all about the tyranny of the shareholder. Journalism has a very bright future.
  4. I've said it before and will repeat it: there is nothing wrong with newspapers that reasonable line rates and profit margins cannot solve.
  5. On cuts to Sunday papers: These products have been an experiment since the mid-80s in parallel with Sunday shopping; they always made few $.
  6. @syladurantaye Maybe he should be wondering whether it should be published at all to stop bleeding off $ from the others to keep it afloat.
  7. Ask Warren Buffet why he just bought a pile of smalll to mid-size community papers in the US -- because these papers produce local content.
  8. Canadian dailies need to devote far less space to recycled news copy from services and other cities and far more to LOCAL news and features.
  9. Postmedia cuts: Too many points to be made for tweeting but the sooner we get all of the affected papers out of shareholder hands the better
  10. Oops my last tweet should've read "aggravation" not aggregation.
  11. Downtown Ottawa parking lot at Queen/Lyons can't read legit credit cards, resulting in ticket and aggregation. You too? twitter.com/WordBanks/stat…
  12. And they all need reporters: “@NewsCanada: There are 122 daily newspapers and over 1100 community newspapers in Canada via @NewspaperCanada
  13. @gregmarkey @sharethis Except that people are living twice as long as they did in 1912, when farm work maimed and killed more per capita.
  14. @robert_hiltz Must be those little weenie-sized lawns they put behind new houses these days?
  15. @MiltonOnSports Nice tweet Steve; descriptive with a minimum of interruptions.
  16. @Cornies Great find Larry. Think I'll pick that one up. Could be helpful at reigning in the classroom tech zealots.