Comments on: Arcata City Council Almost Gets It http://talkingtech.net/2006/04/18/arcata-city-council-almost-gets-it/ life and technology on the north coast of california Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:27:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Matt http://talkingtech.net/2006/04/18/arcata-city-council-almost-gets-it/#comment-4738 Matt Wed, 19 Apr 2006 17:47:24 +0000 http://talkingtech.net/?p=98#comment-4738 The Times-Standard should really take a page from the ER on this one. How much money can they really be making by charging for their archives? Enough to justify the exposure they're <i>not</i> receiving by having Google crawl tens of thousands of back stories? Not to mention an incredible public resource they're denying to anybody who won't or can't pony up $1.95 a pop. I don't question their need to earn a profit, especially while competing against a newspaper that can run in the red indefinitely. I just think they'd better serve everybody's needs if they released their archives (which doesn't mean they have to put them into the public domain, just make them publicly viewable). Back to Arcata, why not provide these videos using some open-source video codec that no person or corporation owns the licensing rights to? Seems appropriate for a government office... The Times-Standard should really take a page from the ER on this one. How much money can they really be making by charging for their archives? Enough to justify the exposure they’re not receiving by having Google crawl tens of thousands of back stories? Not to mention an incredible public resource they’re denying to anybody who won’t or can’t pony up $1.95 a pop.

I don’t question their need to earn a profit, especially while competing against a newspaper that can run in the red indefinitely. I just think they’d better serve everybody’s needs if they released their archives (which doesn’t mean they have to put them into the public domain, just make them publicly viewable).

Back to Arcata, why not provide these videos using some open-source video codec that no person or corporation owns the licensing rights to? Seems appropriate for a government office…

]]> By: Bob http://talkingtech.net/2006/04/18/arcata-city-council-almost-gets-it/#comment-4724 Bob Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:55:55 +0000 http://talkingtech.net/?p=98#comment-4724 Me too. I don't link to them any more ever. I do quote the articles, though. Me too. I don’t link to them any more ever. I do quote the articles, though.

]]> By: Fred Mangels http://talkingtech.net/2006/04/18/arcata-city-council-almost-gets-it/#comment-4723 Fred Mangels Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:40:40 +0000 http://talkingtech.net/?p=98#comment-4723 You wrote: "I hate the fact that the T-S moves its arcticles behind a fee based protected area after 14 days and that’s why I won’t link to them?". I got an e-mail from a reporter at the Times- Standard the other day. Among other things, he suggested I link to the T/S more often. I had to tell him I didn't have a problem with linking to any story, anywhere, but the T/S links were only good for two weeks so I always tried to link to a story somewhere else whenever possible. You wrote: “I hate the fact that the T-S moves its arcticles behind a fee based protected area after 14 days and that’s why I won’t link to them?”.

I got an e-mail from a reporter at the Times- Standard the other day. Among other things, he suggested I link to the T/S more often. I had to tell him I didn’t have a problem with linking to any story, anywhere, but the T/S links were only good for two weeks so I always tried to link to a story somewhere else whenever possible.

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