Bundles and Paywalls

As long as the newspaper was a bundle, no one ever had to care that people were buying it for radically different reasons. But once you go online, and people can unbundle things, where you can traffic directly to a story without going through the home page or any of the rest of it, suddenly what it — the individual choices made by individual readers come to matter a lot.

Clay Shirky, on NPR’s Talk of the Nation with Neal Conan


Must-Reads from other Web sites

Nick Bilton

The New Flickr Is Pretty, but Is It Social?

Steven Johnson

Learning From Los Gatos

James A. Pearson

From Here You Can See Everything

David Campbell

Digital and the Desire for Long Form Journalism

Frédéric Filloux

Why Google Will Crush Nielsen

About Voices

Along with original content and posts from across the Dow Jones network, this section of AllThingsD includes Must-Reads From Other Web Sites — pieces we’ve read, discussions we’ve followed, stuff we like. Six posts from external sites are included here each weekday, but we only run the headlines. We link to the original sites for the rest. These posts are explicitly labeled, so it’s clear that the content comes from other Web sites, and for clarity’s sake, all outside posts run against a pink background.

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Voices is edited by Beth Callaghan.