Carrying the Lantern

Bill R.: While I realize this is a tough call for the New York Times, I can't help but reflect on something I heard ten years ago at a conference on the 'revolution in military affairs'. At that time, the speaker noted if the US military did not transform, it may find itself in the position of answering the President's request for military options to a world conflict by saying, "We don't have any military options to offer." After doing this a few times, the military starts to look irrelevant.

Now switch to the NYT and Google. Whether Times likes it or not, Google users are and will remain (for a while at least) a huge consumer of news articles. Strikes me that the New York Times failure to solve this perplexing problem is sending the message to the Google world, 'We are no longer relevant."

Wrong message. Fix it, NYT.

Wired: "How can the mighty New York Times, which considers itself America's paper of record, be the paper of record in cyberspace when its articles barely show up on Google?" [Scripting News]