Comments on: Irish Times removes paywall from Monday

By: Keeping up with The Times

Keeping up with The Times — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:19:27 +0000

[...] was something that Damien Mulley predicted in January and announced last week on his blog. His initial reaction is here. I’m quoting him [...]

By: Irish Times goes free at Gavin’s Blog

Irish Times goes free at Gavin’s Blog — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:12:52 +0000

[...] remain in existence as a separate entity, but it simply redirects to IrishTimes.com. As Damien pointed out, it would be a tad ridiculous to split the brand and traffic up between two websites. Maybe they [...]

By: kirstie

kirstie — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:25:50 +0000

haha, I never saw that particular prediction! The year is half over and they haven’t bought us yet – they’d best get their skates on, is all I can say, or we might have to start considering those Daily Mail offers*.

*that’s a complete and utter total made-up lie, by the way

By: Brendan

Brendan — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:08:08 +0000

Just goes to prove what everyone already knew – people won’t pay for content online, especially if an equivalent is freely available elsewhere. I wonder will they continue to charge for email -that was such a shame as I liked having an ireland.com email address, but certainly wasn’t prepared to pay.

By: Irish Times & the Guardian | Newspaper News at David Maybury | Blog

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:16:27 +0000

[...] is going free from tomorrow (crumbling to the might of the Jazz Biscuit Paywall campaign?) Eoin and Damien posted about it yesterday with some reactions in the [...]

By: One More Reason For Damien To… | Search Engine Optimisation & Online Marketing Ireland .:. Red Cardinal

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 08:26:28 +0000

[...] it hasn’t been such a successful strategy – Grandad took the mickey out of the distro list, Damien used his usual down-to-earth language in describing the PR, the other 3 blogs haven’t carried anything yet, and I’m being me [...]

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 06:38:51 +0000

Finally!

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 03:54:38 +0000

So who else was lucky enough to get the shitty press release?

The one attached to the email with all the recipients in the To: field.

Yep, also the one with nothing in the email other than the signature footer.

From the agency that use yahoo.co.uk for their email.

@Damien – if you don’t start a business and show these people how it should be done I’m going to shoot you

By: Bock the Robber

Bock the Robber — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:50:00 +0000

I could never understand why they used ireland.com in the first place when they had the possibility to be at irishtimes dot whatever.

By: Justin

Justin — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:17:26 +0000

About bloody time!

The idea of moving the newspaper content to a new domain and repurposing the old domain, instead of simply 30x-redirecting it, is pretty stupid though. Way to lose all that Page Rank….