{"id":38331,"date":"2011-04-04T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/just-think-what-else-could-have-been-done-with-the\/"},"modified":"2011-04-04T12:00:06","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T12:00:06","slug":"just-think-what-else-could-have-been-done-with-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/just-think-what-else-could-have-been-done-with-the\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Just think what else could have been done with the time and resources that the company devoted to the pay wall: entirely new news products could have been developed, products that could engage a wholly different kind of audience and expand the company\u2019s reach by several orders of magnitude. Flipboard was born in roughly that same time span; The Daily, for all of its imperfections, was conceived and launched within less than half that time; Groupon skyrocketed to prominence and tremendous revenue in that time, and over the course of the past eighteen months any number of other information-based startups and new products debuted and captured the public\u2019s imagination. It\u2019s exactly those kinds of innovations that The Times has needed for a very long time, frankly, but by focusing on the pay wall for most of the recent past, they effectively paused on that front for a dangerously long spell.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.subtraction.com\/2011\/03\/18\/what-the-nyt-pay-wall-really-costs?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:%20subtraction%20Subtraction\">Subtraction.com: What the NYT Pay Wall Really Costs<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just think what else could have been done with the time and resources that the company devoted to the pay wall: entirely new news products could have been developed, products that could engage a wholly different kind of audience and expand the company\u2019s reach by several orders of magnitude. Flipboard was born in roughly that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[780,781,1539],"class_list":{"0":"post-38331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-quote","5":"hentry","6":"tag-edp","7":"tag-emergent-digital-practices","9":"post_format-post-format-quote"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-9Yf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}