Chrys said: "In the economy of engagement, it is less and less important to compete for attention, and more and more important to compete for things like brain cycles and interactive bandwidth. Crowd-dependent projects must capture the mental energy and the active effort it takes to make individual contributions to a larger whole." Added: September 2, 2009 at 7:01PM EDT
Chrys said: Alan Mutter does the math and concludes, "The only way a publisher could generate a profit on (an online-only) operation would be by – you guessed it – cutting the newsroom. To pull a 20% profit out of an all-digital L.A. Times, the editorial staff would have to cut by roughly 48%." Added: February 2, 2009 at 11:48PM EST