Monday, July 7, 2003

Rocky Mountain News and Denver Post Paywalls I researched both paper's sites today and the news is not good. Articles expire after 60 days so most of my links for the election are going behind a paywall soon. Bad Rocky and Post. You're putting up barriers to your participation in a weblog conversation by interrupting the flow of a post beyond your 60 day timeframe. So the historical record as written on the weblog is changed. On the other hand you not only participate in writing the history of events you also largely drive the discussion. All that requires dough to spend on resources. If it (your user agreement) drives traffic to your bottom line more power to you. I'll just include the story date and title and future readers can use your archives to get a copy. It would be nice if y'all re-directed to the pay page, pre-loaded with the article information, if a reader clicked on a stale link. 4:31:46 PM

2003 Denver Mayoral Transition Here's an editorial from the Denver Post [July 07, 2003, "To schools' health"] with comments about the inaugural parties and the Mayor-elect getting involved with DPS. From the article, "It's certainly not chump change, but the message it sends about Hickenlooper's willingness to partner with DPS and investing in children is priceless." Here's a link to another Post [June 25, 2003, "The magnificent 73"] editorial about the transition that I missed. I also missed this Denver Business Journal [June 23, 2003, "Hickenlooper picks transition teams"] article on the transition team and it's members. I also missed this article from the Denver Post [June 22, 2003, "Pena to chair mayor's fund"] about Federico Pena heading up Mayor-elect Hickenlooper's transition fund. The story also has a few details about the transition team committees and how the transtion fund will be managed. 5:45:47 AM

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