"This field, this game, is a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and it could be again. Oh, people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come."

Gets me every time. Oh how I do love this game.

The software industry has a concept known as "legacy code," meaning old stuff that is left in software programs, even after they are revised and updated, so that they will still work with older operating systems. The equivalent exists in newspaper stories, which are written to accommodate readers who have just emerged from a coma or a coal mine. -- Michael Kinsley, " Cut This Story!"

"Paywalls are psychological as much as navigational, and it's a lot easier to put them up than to take them down. Once web users get it in their head that your site is "closed" to them, if you ever change your mind and want them to come back, it's extremely difficult to get that word out." -- Scott Rosenberg, former managing editor of Salon.com

Testify, Mike:

Eventually, as these new business models and new institutions work themselves out, it'll suddenly seem "obvious" what the right answers were, and people will forget the hundreds if not thousands of different experiments -- both good and bad -- that went into developing the new model. It's a time of upheaval, for sure, but there's no indication that there's any real risk to the production of content. Just a few businesses that got big and don't want to change with the times. -- Mike Masnick, TechDirt

"Consumers are no longer tethered to a network program schedule, a wire, a single screen or device -- a TV set, a game console, a physical newspaper, magazine, or book -- for their information or pleasure. With choices, consumers feel in control, putting an end to the old argument over which is king, content or distribution or technology. It's the consumer." -- Ken Auletta, Media Maxims